I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

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Hi everyone, welcome to an episode of the Mind Valley Podcast where we're going to talk about

spirituality and sports.

A couple of years ago, an Indian mystic or guru, I don't know what the correct word would be,

named Sri Chinmoi, demonstrated something remarkable

in New York City.

He proceeded at the age of 73 years old to lift a total of 200,000 pounds over several hours and it was something that was being witnessed by weight trainers and bodybuilders and experts around the world.

And it was baffling. Now, sweet Chinmo, he didn't just stop there.

He also went on to found a remarkable race where, get this, the runner

had to run 3,100 miles. Non-stop, around a block in New York City, almost a superhuman feat. And Sweet Shenmoy

wanted to do these, apparently, to prove the power of the human mind to transcend the body. So today on this Mind Valley

podcast we have a documentary filmmaker, Sanjay Rawa. Sanjay has been

fascinated by the feats of Sri Chinmoi and he went on to create several

documentaries based on Chinmoi's apparently superhuman feats challenging impossibility released in 2011, dealt with the weightlifting

feats that Sri Chinoy was able to do. It is a remarkable documentary and featured people like Desmond

Tutu Stings, Susan Surandon, Nelson Mandela, and 3,100 run and become dealt with

reach and moist ability to actually run long distances

and get people across the world to participate in these grueling races as well.

So I wanted to invite Sanjay to discuss the topic of spirituality and sports and how we can apply inner states of being to become superhuman.

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