Monkey Street

On one street, three or four boys and two or three girls are real monkeys. Each time they see me running, they stand up. They don't cheer me; they boo: "Boo, Guru!" That kind of thing they do! They are bad people, bad people. I pray to God, when I come back, that I don't see them, and God listens to my prayer. When I come back, I don't see them.
 
-18 August 1980 
 

[Source: "Monkey Street" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 4, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]