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I did not choose to start lifting weights. If one prays and meditates sincerely, somebody within him talks to him and tells him what to do and what not to do. You use the term “God”; I say my “Inner Pilot”. In 1985, when I was praying and meditating, that somebody within me — you can call it an inner voice or a source of inspiration — asked me to start weightlifting. That is why I am doing it.
Sri Chinmoy, Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart, Agni Press, 1988