Interviewer: What is it like when you lift up those heavy weights?

Sri Chinmoy: I feel I am lifting up my ignorance and world ignorance together. As soon as we take human incarnation, ignorance envelops us. We see ignorance all around. So these metal plates I take as ignorance. I try to lift up my ignorance and the ignorance of the world in which I live.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 3, Agni Press, 2004
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