The Announcer-Friend

The announcer at the finish line was one of the officials of the New York Road Runners Club who likes me so much. He always comes and shakes hands with me. When I was two hundred metres from the finish line, he announced over the loudspeaker, "Sri Chinmoy is coming."
 
-22 March 1981 
 
 

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