His lifts were featured on newscasts worldwide, inspiring people to transcend their personal limitations and to abandon their concepts of the restrictions of physical age.

The subject of Challenging Impossibility is the weightlifting odyssey of Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual teacher who came from India to live in New York City and began lifting weights at the age of 54.

Starting out with basic dumbbells (40 lbs) in 1985, Sri Chinmoy quickly progressed to lift cars, planes and elephants in an effort to show how meditation can develop inner peace that can translate to tangible outer power and strength.

From its creating in 1987, Sri Chinmoy lifted over 7000 people, including Nelson Mandela,[2] Desmond Tutu[3] Muhammad Ali, Sting, Eddie Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Roberta Flack, Yoko Ono, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Gere.

Chinmoy performed his own strenuous feats to spread his message of world harmony and inner peace,[6] to inspire people to transcend their personal limitations and to abandon their concepts of the restrictions of physical age.