Question: Is there any kind of relationship that you feel you have with the weights when you step up to them?

Sri Chinmoy: On the strength of my prayer and meditation I try to enter into the material consciousness and become part and parcel of the weights that I lift. When I deal with matter, I try to become inseparably one with it. So when I lift up the weights, I feel that my life-breath has entered into the metal plates and that from the metal this life-breath has entered back into me. This is how I try to establish my oneness with the weights. In this way I feel life in the weights and the weights feel life in me. Otherwise, if I just touch them, they do not reciprocate, and we do not offer our life-breath to each other.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 1, Agni Press, 1993
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