Question: Do great athletes have a kind of unconscious aspiration?

Sri Chinmoy: There are athletes who are far, far better than we, infinitely superior to us as athletes. But when it is a matter of inner aspiration, they have none. It will take them hundreds of incarnations to realise God, whereas we have the opportunity to realise God even in this incarnation.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Politics and spirituality: can they go together?, Agni Press, 1977
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