Rainbow Soul-Birds by Sri Chinmoy
During a 2006-2007 Christmas trip, Sri Chinmoy created this special series of drawings by scratching the surface of colour-coated black art paper to reveal beautifully coloured images of ‘Soul-Birds’.
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Anniversaries
Sri Chinmoy held his first 7-hour public meditation, All Angels’ Church, Manhattan
May 30
Sri Chinmoy blesses a tree, which had previously been planted in his honour, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA. He gave it the Sanskrit name Purnaturu, meaning ‘Perfection Tree’.
The Oxford Mail carries a story about the newly inaugurated Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile (29 May 1987) in Cutteslowe Park in Oxford, UK. The article features a photo of Sri Chinmoy starting the two-mile race for schoolchildren that followed the main ceremony.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Suffolk College in Ipswich, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy honours Yiannis Kourus by lifting him after he finished the Sri Chinmoy 1,000-Mile IAU World Championship Race in a new world record time of 10 days 10:30:35 at Flushing Meadows Park in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000 ‘God's Dream-Souls’ for a total of 20,000 soul-bird drawings since he began 5 months earlier, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song, entitled ‘Thirteen Thousand’, for the occasion.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 33rd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The concert is introduced by H.E. Ambassador Ananda Guruge, former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France, Spain, Algeria, Mexico and the United States.
Sri Chinmoy meets Allan Steinfeld at Annam Brahma. Allan Steinfield was president of the New York Road Runners and race director of the New York City Marathon from 1994 to 2005.
Sri Chinmoy competes in three field events — 600-gm javelin (21.35m), 1-kg discus (19.78 m) and the 4-kg shot put (7.70m) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets privately with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, his first concert held in National Government offices, attended by Members of Parliament and diplomats at Confederation Hall, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON, Canada. A message from Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is read out. At the concert, he also recites 20 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including Svetlana Evgenyevna Feofanova, world champion pole-vaulter, at the Moscow Gorky Art Academic Theatre, Moscow, Russia.
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