You Look So Beautiful

Yesterday, around eight o'clock, I was walking quite fast when an elderly lady came out of her house. Who she is, God knows. She must live on that street, but I had never seen her before.
 
She said, "Sri, you look so beautiful."
 
Five or six steps passed before I said, "Thank you," but by that time she didn't hear.
 
16 February 1980 
 

[Source: "You Look So Beautiful" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]