To Be Like You

After I stopped running last night, I was watching the rest of the 33-mile race. A little boy came up to me and. He was very nice to me and said, "How I wish I could be like you." Then he said, "Did you hear me calling you 'Guru'?" He was only ten years old.
 
-12 July 1980 
 
 

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