Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Flame-Waves from the Upanishad-Sea, Part 1’, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
A report on Sri Chinmoy’s spoken meditations, broadcast daily at sunrise on the Dave Herman Show on WNEW FM, appears in a column called ‘Radio Round up’ in New York’s Sunday News newspaper. The first ‘Sunrise Meditation’ was broadcast on 1 February 1973.
Three of Sri Chinmoy’s spiritual plays are performed by members of the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey Sri Chinmoy Centres at the Victoria Congregational Church in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love Human, Love Divine, Love Supreme’, at the State University of New York in Purchase, NY, USA.
A bronze bust of U Thant is presented to Sri Chinmoy by UN Under-Secretary-General Robert Muller and sculptor Domenico Mazzone, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy sends a message of encouragement to track and field champion Sudhahota Carl Lewis.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his tenth Esraj Anniversary by playing 27 songs in concert, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously improvises on a piano for 2½ minutes at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. This is the precursor of his world-acclaimed piano performances.
Sri Chinmoy performs piano improvisations at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. The concert, marking Sri Chinmoy’s first piano anniversary, is recorded live and released as ‘Earth’s God-Hunger-Power-Tears’. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy composes his Piano song and teaches it to the audience.
Sri Chinmoy plays 57 songs in concert to celebrate his fifteenth Esraj Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ performance at Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, Germany.
Sudan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Flautist Paul Horn gives a private concert for Sri Chinmoy and his students at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Russian musician Boris Grebenshikov and his wife Irina at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy opens a Jharna-Kala Exhibition and offers a Peace Concert at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a seven-month-old baby elephant weighing 701 lbs. using a standing calf-raise machine with shoulder platform, at Elephant Special Tours, in Mae Sapok, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. The total weight of the lift, including apparatus, is 785 lbs.