July

Sri Chinmoy delivered a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: The Fount Of World Peace’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Hunger’, at Trinity College, Dublin University in Dublin, Ireland.

Sri Chinmoy met with Erskine Childers, President of Ireland, at the Presidential Palace in Dublin, Ireland.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert – the first of 28 concerts given in July – at Woodrow Wilson Hall, Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gave a spiritual talk:

This talk, the first of 100 lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered in 20 days, was later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Michaela Von Habsburg, Archduchess and Princess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, granddaughter of Emperor Karl and Empress Zita; and Eric Tehran Alba D’Antin, Duke of Alba, Spain, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy observed the first ‘Grandfather’s Day’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Arif Mardin, 12-time Grammy Award-winning music producer, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 2-5) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy was selected to perform the daily ‘Changing of the Rose’ ceremony, symbolising the constant renewal of the peace process, at the National Palace, Peace Monument in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Fear In The Spiritual Life’, at Biblioteca Comunale in Milan, Italy.

These talks (nos. 6 & 7) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy was interviewed by Donna Halper on ‘The Other Hour’, a radio program broadcast live in New York on radio station WRVR.

Sri Chinmoy completed his epic 10,000-poem series, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composed two songs for Ten Thousand Flower-Flames – one in English and one in Bengali – on the 5th anniversary of the completion of his poetry epic.

Sri Chinmoy offered an opening meditation at the World Telugu Conference and received the Peace Award, at Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY, USA.

Sixty-two thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings were exhibited in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Kuwait was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy offered the U Thant Peace Award to United Nations Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meditated at the very spot where, almost 80 years earlier, Swami Vivekananda had meditated and entered into nirvikalpa samadhi, on Wellesley Island, Thousand Island Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Strength’, at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy held his first 13-hour public meditation, offered in honour of America’s Bicentennial, for the Soul of America, at the 72nd Street Bandshell in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 8 & 9) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy’s first joke video ‘Humour: My Only Saviour’ was shown in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy sank 863 baskets out of 1,300 basketball throws, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 18 Bangladeshi nationals, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a private concert in honour of the Bengali cultural community worldwide, in Jamaica NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Miracles’, at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland.

These talks (nos. 10 & 11) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy offered an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and gave a talk, entitled ‘You Are Our All’, at the State Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted the children of Jacob Zuma, Executive Deputy President of South Africa, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 12 & 13) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 10 prominent Australians, including Mt. Everest climbers Greg Mortimer and Lincoln Hall, at the Town Hall in Sydney, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 1,250-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Zambia was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 23 people, including staff members of the United Nations Development Programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted former President of Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration And Spirituality’, at ABF Huset, Sveavägen, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘The Aspiring Life’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 14 & 15) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a lift of 50 lb. using one-arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and delivered a talk, entitled ‘I Need’, at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy completed 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, including one finger painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Chile was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy met with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in Barcelona, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offered the opening meditation and performed a concert at the Fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions at the Universal Forum for Cultures in Barcelona, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offered a private performance for Prabhujagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy met with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Willow, Woodstock, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 16-18) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Centro De Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The 75 paintings filled the entire museum.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and delivered a talk, entitled ‘Stupidity, Insecurity And Fear’, at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy set to music ‘August 15, 1945’, his epic 194-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo on his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at ABF Huset in Stockholm, Sweden.

These talks (nos. 19-22) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 11 prominent New Zealanders, including Rod Dixon, 1972 Olympic bronze medallist in 1,500m, and 1983 New York City Marathon winner, at the Regent Hotel in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy offered the opening meditation at the Conference on World Religions at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Regional Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Hindu Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret Of Joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gave a spiritual talk:

This talk (no. 23) was later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Receptivity’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy began his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completed 7,000 poems in one year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 5 members of the US Congress: Neil Abercrombie, Congressman from Hawaii; Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York; Sanford Bishop, Congressman from Georgia; Benjamin A. Gilman, Congressman from New York; Ed Towns, Congressman from New York, at the Rayburn Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in, in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Capacity’, at St. Thomas’ Church Hall in Vasteras, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy was interviewed on National Public Radio and broadcast nationwide throughout the USA.

Sri Chinmoy gave two spiritual talks:

These talks (nos. 24-25) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1.

Sri Chinmoy ran a personal best for 5 miles in a time of 38:11 (7:38 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 16 people at the ‘Runners are Smilers’ race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy ran a personal best for 100m in the West (13.67 sec.), and 200m (29.69 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field, in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy bench pressed a 700-lb. dumbbell, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Mount Fuji’s Sengen Jinja shrine in Fujiyama, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gave two spiritual talks:

These talks (nos. 26-27) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy offered an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composed his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy received a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offered the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA.

My Ivy League Leaves was the first book published by Chinmoy Publishing Company, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completed his 1,000-poem volume, entitled Europe-Blossoms.

These talks (nos. 28-34) were later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Mali was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

France was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 31 people, including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 113 pilots in a single day, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, at Boeing Field Auditorium in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Sri Chinmoy also offered a bouquet in a soulful tribute at the Peace Memorial.

Sri Chinmoy met with Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, and presented him with a Jharna-Kala painting at City Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy composed the words to his 13,000th Bengali song Shakpura Shakpura Purba Shakpura Gram on a trip from Hiroshima on the Shinkansen Bullet Train between Kyoto and Kamakura and set them to music the following day.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 35-40) were later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 60-lb. lift using only one-arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composed words for Mozart’s ‘Minuet in G’ – the first time his words were set to classical music, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy won a 100m race in 15.47 sec. and placed 2nd in the 200m event in 31.78 sec., in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 16 people at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 1,000-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise and a 2,000 lb. lift using a standing calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 55 people, including numerous professors at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy played 51 of his own melodies on the sitar. The recording of this first-ever performance on the sitar was later released on a CD entitled ‘Impossibility Surrenders’.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan, where he presented one of his Jharna-Kala paintings to Michiko Sato, daughter of the late Head Priest Mitsuo Sato of Kōtoku-in Temple.

Sri Chinmoy gave a talk on the topic ‘I know what to do’, at the Retailer’s Centre in Haro Rey, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a talk, entitled ‘The Garland of Nation-Souls’, to the United Nations World Youth Congress at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Experiences’, at Friends House in Brighton, UK.

These talks (nos. 41-43) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 27 people, including Therese Rossides, wife of Zenon Rossides, former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completed 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy left New York for a nine-day visit to Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gave his first radio talk on Radio Station WITA (‘Imparcial’). He spoke for eight minutes on the subject, ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Obedience’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK.

Sri Chinmoy had his first meeting with Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, and received the UN Silver Medallion, at the United Nations in New York.

These talks (nos. 44-49) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Will Stone Collection in San Francisco, CA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings was held in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘What Is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy juggled 3 balls over 450 times in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks was officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

These talks (nos. 50-58) were later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and delivered a lecture at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and delivered a lecture at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy met for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert with an organ performance at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.

70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings were exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy celebrated the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Regional Museum in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy gave his first esraj concert, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

These talks (nos. 59-77) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 3 and Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and delivered a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completed 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert performance at the annual puja in Geeta Temple, Elmhurst, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Art Gallery in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘My Puerto Rico’, under the auspices of the YMCA of Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, at the Grand Hall, Caxton Hall, in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy was proclaimed an ‘Honorary Resident of Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón.

These talks (nos. 78-81) were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert at the ‘Center for the Light’ in New Marlboro, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy held a reception for Champaklal-ji from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Retretti Concert Hall in Punkaharju, Finland.

Sri Chinmoy completed 5,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 480-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift (240 lbs. with both arms simultaneously) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a 2,100-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completed 13,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘What Is Yoga?’ and an explanation of ‘Bhakti Yoga’, at the home of  Sita (Mrs. Maria Teresa Gonzalez) in Rio Pedro, Puerto Rico. 

Sri Chinmoy appeared on television for the first time. He was interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, were later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivered a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Sri Chinmoy set music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 20 people, including Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago; and Beverly Owens, daughter of Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist, at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert, recited poems and delivered a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, at the Arie Crown Theatre in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered the opening meditation at the New York Games at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opened at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

Grenada was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Payton Jordan, US Track and Field Olympian and coach, holder of over 60 world records in Masters sprinting, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy gave talks on ‘Karma Yoga’ and “Jnana Yoga’ at the home of Lakshmi and Narayan (Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Elvira), on San Jose Street in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration And Dedication’, at the University of Reykjavik, in Reykjavik, Iceland – completing his third European lecture tour – later published in My Rose Petals, Part 4.

Sri Chinmoy first played the Indian flute, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Sri Chinmoy offered a public concert at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy ran a personal best for 1,500 metres (6:15) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert at the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.

Niger and Panama were declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Quincy Jones, musician, composer, arranger and producer, at his home in Los Angeles; and later lifted Lee Underwood, musician, biographer, music critic and author, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurated the first Aum Centre (later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre) in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It was legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.)

Sri Chinmoy met with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presented President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.

Sri Chinmoy race-walked a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stayed for the next twenty years before coming to the West. His eldest brother Hriday had already left the family home in Chittagong almost twelve years earlier to join the Ashram. On this day, all seven children of Shashi Kumar and Yogamaya Ghose were reunited.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St Xavier School, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performed a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 19 champion runners and athletes, including Sudhahota Carl Lewis, 9-time Olympic gold medallist; Butch Reynolds, Olympic gold and silver medallist, 400m; and Jim Hines, Olympic gold medallist 100m, at the ‘The Morning of Champion-Hearts Supreme’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy received the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy led the first National Day of Prayer Observance at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Bayard Taylor School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Peru and Swaziland were declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy leaves Puerto Rico to return to New York.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Landmark Community Center in Port Washington, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a personal best lift of 1,200 lbs. using a double dumbbell bench press (600 lbs. in each hand), in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Samir Chatterjee, renowned tabla player, and his wife Sanghamitra Chatterjee, vocalist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composed his 8,000th Bengali song, ‘Phukai Amara Jibana Samare’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday were read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games was held in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert – 31st anniversary of first bamboo straight flute performance – in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosted a reception for Vinay Verma, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Bösendorfer Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 13 professors at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Great Drikung Kagyu Yogi, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved an 800-lb lift using a seated one-arm lift in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy Triathlon was held in Groton, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy ran a personal best for 800 metres (2:47) on the road at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on 150th Street in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Joe Franklin, TV talk show host of the ‘Joe Franklin Show’, and taped an interview with him in Secaucus, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered the opening meditation at the New York Games, where he met with Olympic Relay champions Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh, at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Kyrgyzstan was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Addwitiya Roberta Flack in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy lifted Kristio Wahyono, Consul-General of Indonesia to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 6 planes and a glider at Brookhaven Airport on Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s writings began to appear regularly in El Mundo in Puerto Rico under the heading ‘Una Pausa en el Dia’. Sri Chinmoy’s words were translated into Spanish by Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro).

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at Victoria Park in Victoria, BC, Canada.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opened at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 70 lbs. using one arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved a lift of 1,500 lbs. using a standing calf raise at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 12 boxing champions, including Don Lalonde, WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 14 people, including Hollis Conway, 1988 Olympic silver medallist, high jump, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a concert – the final of 28 given in July as part of his ‘Everest-Aspiration’ series – at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy ran a personal best of 33.6 sec. for 200 metres during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifted and offered the U Thant Peace Award to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Founder and President of the Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieved his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – in Jamaica, NY, USA.