Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Kundalini Yoga: The Mother-Power’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Forward!’, in the Union Cinema, at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 347 paintings in 24 hours in Jamaica, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Tempe Community Centre, in Tempe, AZ, USA.

A feature article about Sri Chinmoy is published under the banner ‘Hinduism in America’ in the Indian English-language weekly news magazine, The Illustrated Weekly of India.

Sri Chinmoy composes his ‘Seven Thousand Pounds’ song in honour of his pinnacle weightlifting achievement.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Vladimir Petrovsky, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York. Later that evening, Sri Chinmoy meets for an hour with President Gorbachev’s daughter, Irina Virganskaya, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, before she flies back to Russia the next day.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 Chinese residents at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China. He also gives a short esraj performance.