The Smiling Runner

Savita was smiling all the time during the marathon. Usually, when you see people running, you can tell who are the helpers: they are the ones smiling. But Savita smiled for twenty-six miles.
 
20 January 1980 
 

[Source: "The Smiling Runner" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]