This is interesting, it basically chronicles Sri Chinmoy's journey into lifting -
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He got Pearl, Wayne Demilla, Zane, Katz, Carl Lewis, Hugo Girard, Frantz, Dan Lurie, Al Oerter, etc.... all to vouch for him.
Bill Pearl for his part says that since Chimnoy isn't competing in a sport with established rules like OL, Powerlifting, Bodybuilding, etc..... but rather under his own thing the lifts count. He also goes on about how the message is more important than the lifts.
Also it's fun to watch him set up the lifts. Sometimes it's a side press, others a push. Then other times, just breaking the weights off the hooks count, and when it got really heavy, rolling the dumbbell handle in the holder seemed to count.