Last-Minute Victory

During the last mile and a half a very tall man was competing with me—running about a metre away from me. When we neared thirteen miles, I said, "All right, let him go ahead," and I started walking. The man was so happy that I had started walking, and he went thirty or forty metres ahead of me.
 
Then Databir, Gayatri and a few others started screaming and cheering, and I got such joy. I said, "Now is the time for me to go ahead of him." I got inspiration to run fast and I defeated him by six or eight metres.
 
- 22 March 1981 
 
 

[Source: "Last-Minute Victory" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 5, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]