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August 4: You Are Guided By Your Heart

Augu 4, 2015

“All I can say is that this race you don’t do alone. You are never alone out there on the course. You have so many hopes and dreams and inspirations of everybody, who is following the race. It is just amazing how even though you are not really in contact with humanity. You are not in contact with newspapers and whatever. You really feel how the race is somehow percolating out there, and inspiring people.

“Life is hard for everybody. Everybody is running their own version of the 3100 mile race. Everybody has their own difficulties. Definitely I felt that if I could inspire even one person to stick it out one more day. To never give up. To just push your way through the tunnel. Than that is somehow really worth it.

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August 3, Utpal: There Is Only One Power

Augu 3, 2015

“I would like to thank the race directors. The undying enthusiasm from morning until eve, for so many days. Unbelievable. The cooks, unimaginable. Better and better from year to year. I don’t know how they do better but they do better every year.” “I wish to thank the Enthusiasm Awakeners. I would like to thank my family, Alakananda and Atandra. My fellow runners they are the best people in the world, and of course my deepest gratitude goes to my Guru, Sri Chinmoy – the one power behind every body and every thing.” sitting-good Continue

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August 2, Utpal: It Is All Grace

Augu 2, 2015

“I just want to say that standing here with this record is really hard to believe. It is hard to believe because I had doubts until the beginning of this race. Because I always felt that I was not strong enough. That I am too weak and too tired. But there were always good persons who said, no, no!”

“You just have to come to the starting line and everything will be okay. Good that I listened to her. So I registered very very late.” “It is hard to believe because you cannot capture it. Because it is all grace. It is all grace, grace, grace. That I could do it at this age (56 years old). “So what more can I say than gratitude. All gratitude to the great Sri Chinmoy Marathon team, because they are working so hard. Very very hard, and still they are all very nice. I admire this really very much.” finish-line-1

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August 1, Utpal: Good to Have Goals

Augu 1, 2015

The practical world has lots and lots to offer us. It has countless comforts and many many remarkable things but it is missing something that is most significant to all of us. The practical world does not have dreams of transcendence.

photo by Alakananda The practical world has boundaries and dimensions that can be measured and recorded and kept safe. Human beings need to have firm structures in order to pursue the things that matter to them. But spiritual seekers feel the call and pull of the divine world that exists within us all. A realm of light that has no dimensions or boundaries. finish-line Continue

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July 31, Utpal: This Is My Life

July 31, 2015

She has run with exceptional courage and tenacity. 44 year old Kaneenika Janakova is an incredibly gifted multi day runner, but now with just 5 days to go, it looks as though she will not make it to the peak of the 3100 mile mountain. She is heart breakingly close, and all those who care and support her are as one. All collectively feel the ache of watching a champion just miss what she has set out to do.

But like all great atheletes and also, like all exceptional spiritual seekers, Kaneenika every day now demonstrates a bravery and volcanic tenacity that is truly inspiring and uplifting. On this bare stage of hard concrete she just keeps going forward.

We who watch cannot really imagine just how much effort she puts into each painful stride. Each step now though taking her further into the illumining realm of self transcendence. Where the true goal is not about something outer, like numbers but is something instead that is discovered and revealed only within us when we seriously strive for it. Something attained only when we give our all, like Kaneenika has for the past 47 days. Kaneenika has received lots of help this race. She freely admits that all her helpers have been indispensable. “Definitely the helpers are very essential in a race like this. This race is not just about the runner. It is team work. You really need a team of people to do this race. They are definitely running with me.” kaneenika-poem Read more

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July 30, Utpal: Deep Inside My Heart

July 30, 2015

With just a little more than an hour remaining in the day, a very joyful Yuri Trostenyuk crossed the finish line of the Self Transcendence 3100 mile race for the 3rd time. After songs had been sung and a cake and flowers offered to him Yuri had this to say.

“Today a very important job has been done by me. Heaven has sent a message. The earth is happy that it has received the light of the heaven. Every one of the runners of the 3100 mile race is a winner.”

“I have transcended myself. (21 hours faster than last year) I have conquered my inner imperfections. I have dived deep inside my heart and I saw God himself there. I saw joy and happiness there. I am very grateful to all of your kind hearts and prayerful hands for all the help that has been offered to me.” yuri-crowd Read more