Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How to Please God’, at University of Bridgeport, CT, USA.
At the invitation of Secretary-General U Thant, Sri Chinmoy begins conducting twice-weekly meditations for staff, delegates and NGO representatives at United Nations headquarters in New York. As director of the ‘United Nations Meditation Group’, which later becomes known as ‘Sri Chinmoy: the Peace Meditation at the United Nations’, Sri Chinmoy serves the spiritual aspirations of the United Nations for over 37 years.
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala artworks at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously composes and sings 100 songs from poems in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames for the birth centenary of his father Shashi Kumar Ghosh, at Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives an honorary doctorate in Philosophy and Literature from the Institute of Slavonic Culture in Moscow, Russia.
The New York borough of Brooklyn is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 39 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Bob Mathias, 2-time Olympic gold medallist in the decathlon (1948 & 1952), at JFK International Airport, NY, USA.