The Funeral Song

At one point, when some of you were singing running songs to encourage the runners, you were singing so slowly that it sounded like a funeral song. One man asked, "Is that our funeral dirge that is playing?"
 
I said to myself, "That is what I always say about my disciples' singing when they sing too slowly."
 
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-1 March 1981 
 
 

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