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Yogananda's Miraculous Speed: A Sprinter's Discipleship #shorts

14 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short narrated video, the speaker recounts a legendary anecdote about Paramahansa Yogananda confronting a world‑class Olympic sprinter who was skeptical of Yogananda’s claimed spiritual powers. The sprinter challenges Yogananda to outrun him to a stone 40 meters away and back, promising to become Yogananda’s disciple if he succeeds. Yogananda accepts, runs the distance faster than the sprinter, who is stunned into stopping. Overwhelmed by the demonstration, the sprinter immediately becomes Yogananda’s disciple. The story is presented as a dramatic illustration of Yogananda’s miraculous abilities and the transformative power of witnessing such feats, encouraging belief in his teachings.

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There was a famous Olympic athlete that was a sprinter who heard about Paramahansa Yogananda and all these amazing things he could do, but he thought it was all bullshit. And so this sprinter shows up, meets Yogananda, and he says, I hear you can do all these amazing things. I'm suspicious, but if you can really do these things, I will become a disciple and I will follow you. And Yogananda said, well, what would it take to get you to believe that this is real? And the guy said, well, I am one of the fastest sprinters in the world. And do you think you could outrun me? And Yogananda says, well, let's go find out. So they walk down the steps to the beach and Yogananda says, okay, look, you see that stone over there about 40 meters away? He says, yes. He said, if I can beat you to that stone and back here again, will you believe that what I'm teaching is true? And the sprinter said, if you can beat me to that stone and back, I will become your disciple. The sprinter went down like a 3-point start, like a sprinter, like starting blocks. By the time the sprinter had taken his 3rd step and looked up, Yogananda was already running back from the other stone. And it shocked the sprinter so much he just stopped moving. He could— it just stunned the hell out of him. And he became a disciple. Wow.