The tennis audience
When I play tennis at the Ambarrukmo Palace Hotel, about fifteen or twenty children always stand outside the fence behind me and watch. And they always take my side.When Mahiyan makes a good shot, they don’t say anything. But when I do well, they are so happy.
Those children are more attentive than some of my disciples. Some of the disciples lie down or chat while I am playing, but the children watch attentively.
— January 1988
Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 6, Agni Press, 1994