My Weightlifting Tears And Smiles, Part 1

A Calf Story

This afternoon Unmilan and others put a dumbbell with 350 pounds on it in front of my house. Next to it they put a calf which also weighed about 350 pounds. They had rented the calf from the zoo. Then they took a picture of me standing next to the weight and the calf. In this way they wanted to show how much weight 350 pounds is.

—11 September 1986

Excerpt from My Weightlifting Tears And Smiles, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy