June 19
The first exhibition at a museum of Sri Chinmoy Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Museo Del Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Greatness and Goodness’, at Oxford University in Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy attends a soccer game in the New York Cosmos stadium where the great Brazilian soccer star Pelé is playing. During the match, a squadron of planes flies overhead writing in white smoke: ‘Happy Father’s Day Sri Chinmoy’.
Two exhibitions of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks open at the Town Hall in Ipswich and at the Town Hall in Newmarket, Suffolk, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at Mozartsaal in Cologne, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy performs on the esraj during the exhibition opening of his Jharna-Kala artworks, at the prestigious Museum Alexander König in Bonn, Germany. The reception is sponsored by the director of the museum Dr. Günter Nobis, and the cultural attache from the Indian Embassy in Bonn serves as master of ceremonies for the programme, which is recorded for future broadcast in India.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,200-lb. standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
A Father’s Day Marathon held in Sri Chinmoy’s honour takes place at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA, beginning shortly after 6:30 a.m.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song about Nelson Mandela, ‘A Perfect Justice-Voice’, which is subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio and commercial stations across the USA, including New York’s WQXR, and sung on television by a church choir in Seattle.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 13th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at James J. Reynolds Jr. High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert Zmelick, Czech Olympic gold medallist in the decathlon (1992), at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An article featuring Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements appears in the German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (New Osnabrück Newspaper).
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Borough Hall in the Bronx, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Helen Hunt, Academy Award-winning actress, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. On February 15, 2013, Helen Hunt is interviewed on the Late Show with David Letterman and speaks about her meeting with Sri Chinmoy.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and Force Commander of UN peacekeeping in Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide, in New York, NY, USA.
About On This Day
January 1st, 2011, saw the launch of a special feature on the front page of Sri Chinmoy Reflections — On This Day — a day-by-day account of Sri Chinmoy’s achievements. The accompanying pages expand the theme further by linking specific dates and events to video, audio and literary resources from this and many other related websites, enabling the reader to explore, in a systematic way, the vast catalogue of information about Sri Chinmoy’s life.
Many years ago at Aspiration-Ground, there was a large blackboard that displayed the scores of tennis matches Sri Chinmoy had played. Each morning, before Sri Chinmoy arrived at the court, the board would be cleaned and the date of the new day would be written in chalk at the top. Then, in yearly order, a list of different activities Sri Chinmoy had accomplished or had participated in would follow. Every day a new list would appear, and very rarely would there be a day without something to report.
Just before starting play of his usual round of morning tennis, Sri Chinmoy could be seen walking slowly across towards the blackboard to carefully study the list, and many times he would comment on what had been written. No doubt it brought back many fond memories for him.
Since his arrival in the West in 1964, many disparate lists have been compiled – running times and athletic highlights; poems written and songs composed; concerts performed and lectures delivered; weights hoisted and people lifted; paintings completed and drawings sketched; meditations, meetings, peace initiatives and prayers – viewed altogether, they represent an impressive chronology of achievement that reads more like the combined biographies of several highly talented people rather than one individual.
It is by the dedicated efforts of many who have meticulously recorded these events, which form the narrative of Sri Chinmoy’s remarkable life, that we are able to look back across the decades to take in this grand overview. We are grateful to all those who have collected and preserved this information over the years.
It is hoped that this section will, in some small way, carry on this inspirational tradition.
— Animesh Harrington
The information in the following pages has been compiled from many sources – Sri Chinmoy Library, Sri Chinmoy Songs, Sri Chinmoy TV and Radio Sri Chinmoy; Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletters, magazines, periodicals1; and informational booklets2; newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV interviews; yearly calendars and index cards; as well as analog and digital recordings.
Bibliography:
1 AUM (monthly magazine)
Jharna-Kala (art quarterly magazine)
Meditation at the United Nations (monthly bulletin)
Anahata Nada (monthly newsletter)
2 A Galaxy of Luminaries, Agni Press, New York, 1978
Sri Chinmoy: The Student of Peace (second edition), Aum Publications, New York
Sri Chinmoy: Emissary of Oneness-Peace
Sri Chinmoy A Global Man of Peace
Sri Chinmoy Dreamer of World Peace, Agni Press, New York, 1998 & 2000
Sri Chinmoy A Oneness-World-Dreamer
Oneness-World Peace-Blossoms, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, 25th Anniversary
500 Compassion-Blessing-Blossoms