Sri Chinmoy gives an introductory talk to a series of eighteen lectures on the Bhagavad Gita at his apartment, 504 East 84th Street, in Manhattan, New York. Each Tuesday evening lecture — 13 February to 8 June 1968 — starts at 7:30 p.m. and deals with one of the Bhagavad Gita’s eighteen chapters. The complete talks are subsequently published by Rudolf Steiner Publications in 1973 under the title Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita: The Song of the Transcendental Soul.
Sri Chinmoy’s Songs of the Soul is printed in New York. It originally comes out as a small pamphlet.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture, entitled ‘Success and Progress’, at Halleck Building, Conference Room 1, St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, IN, USA. Sri Chinmoy is introduced to the audience by Dr. John Philip Posey, Associate Professor of History and Director of Non-Western Core Programme.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, in the Congress Room at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture, entitled ‘Love and Perfection’, at Loyola University in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy returns to his birthplace in East Shakpura, near Chittagong, Bangladesh, for the first time in 42 years.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Calvin Smith, the former world-record holder for 100 metres, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy presents him with a plaque, calling him “Champion of Champions.” Sri Chinmoy’s students also sing a song for him that Sri Chinmoy had composed in his honour.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 101 in Forest Hills in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a farewell function for Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Ambassador for India to the USA, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 112 people, breaking his own record for the number of people lifted in a single day, in Sabah, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Watermark Hotel in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 49 people overhead, including the 7,000th person since he began his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme in June 1988, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a message, entitled ‘Every Day, a Fresh Attempt’ during a morning function with his disciples at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 children and 2 teachers from the Sridonchai Municipal School at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 8 Thai residents at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.