Examiner: Your background is athletic too, as I recall?

Sri Chinmoy: I was a champion sprinter and decathlon champion in the community where I lived. According to Indian standards, I was quite good, but according to the world standard I was nowhere.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Philosophy, religion and yoga, Agni Press, 1980
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