Meditate before running6
Dear ones, this morning I saw many people running in the street. That is very good! You waited until six o’clock. You are not supposed to run before that. But I saw seven or eight girls just start running. It is good to pray and meditate one minute before you start. That I have been saying since time immemorial. But while I was inside the car this morning, seven or eight girls I saw come out of the hotel and immediately start running. One girl meditated for ten or twelve seconds, and the others started without meditating.Kindly try if possible to meditate for a minute. If that is too much, at least for half a minute invoke the Presence of the Supreme, and then run.
To both the boys and the girls I wish to say that if you are going to run, at least for half a minute pray and meditate.
OSO 9. 12 January 2002, Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam↩
Sri Chinmoy, Our sweetest oneness, Agni Press, 2012