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1971 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: the fount of world peace’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The inner hunger’, at Trinity College, Dublin University in Dublin, Ireland. |
1974 | ||||
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“I have been reading your book, The Garland of Nation-Souls, which I like very much. I, too, believe in meditation ... I really believe that in these days of turmoil and strife, we all need something like meditation ... You know, we have tried teaching something about this in our schools, but the only people who have made a real effort to teach this idea have been people from the East, such as yourself.” — Erskine Childers, President of Ireland (1974-1975) | |||
Sri Chinmoy meets with Erskine Childers, President of Ireland, at the Presidential Palace in Dublin, Ireland. |
1977 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the first of 28 concerts given in July – at Woodrow Wilson Hall, Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a spiritual talk: |
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I pray, I meditate | 9:30 p.m. | Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA | ||
This talk, the first of 100 lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered in 20 days, is later published in Everest-Aspiration part 1. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1997 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy observes the first ‘Grandfather’s Day’ in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Arif Mardin, 12-time Grammy Award-winning music producer, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks: | ||||
Gratitude | 5:30 a.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
I Do Not Know | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
Dream | 3:50 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA | ||
Security | 4:38 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA | ||
These talks (nos. 2-5) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1997 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy is 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. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala. |
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1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear in the spiritual life’, at Biblioteca Comunale in Milan, Italy. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: | ||
Theoretical Surrender And Practical Surrender | 8:37 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Satisfaction | 8:35 p.m. | P.S. 86 High School, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 6 & 7) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Donna Halper on ‘The Other Hour’, a radio program broadcast live in New York on radio station WRVR. |
1983 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes his epic 10,000-poem series, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article... |
1987 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1988 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes 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. |
1992 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the World Telugu Conference and receives the Peace Award, at Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sixty-two thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Kuwait is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to United Nations Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at the United Nations in New York. |
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1972 | ||||||||
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Sri Chinmoy meditates 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. |
1973 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Strength’, at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. |
1976 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy holds 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. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: | ||
Compassion-Height And Justice-Light | 8:05 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
My Desire | 8:05 p.m. | Informal Gathering at a Private House, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 8 & 9) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1994 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy’s first joke video ‘Humour: My Only Saviour’ is shown in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1996 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy sinks 863 baskets out of 1,300 basketball throws, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 Bangladeshi nationals, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert in honour of the Bengali cultural community worldwide, in Jamaica NY, USA. |
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JULY 5TH | ![]() |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Miracles’, at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: | ||
The Shortcut, The Shorter Cut, The Shortest Cut | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Happiness And Unhappiness | 9:05 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School, Hollis, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 10 & 11) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1980 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA. |
1989 | ||||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and gives a talk, entitled ‘You are our All’, at the State Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia. |
1995 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts the children of Jacob Zuma, Executive Deputy President of South Africa, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: | ||||
Human Reality And Divine Reality | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
I Am Grateful | 9:20 p.m. | Unitarian Church, Flushing, New York, NY, USA | ||
These talks (nos. 12 & 13) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1989 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 prominent Australians, including Mt. Everest climbers Greg Mortimer and Lincoln Hall, at the Town Hall in Sydney, Australia. |
1991 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,250-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Zambia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2002 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including staff members of the United Nations Development Programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts former President of Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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1973 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Spirituality’, at ABF Huset, Sveavägen, in Stockholm, Sweden. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Aspiring Life’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland. |
1975 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: | ||
Austerity | 7:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Smile, Love And Claim | 9:15 p.m. | Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, USA |
These talks (nos. 14 & 15) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1984 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA. |
1985 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 50 lb. using one arm in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a talk, entitled ‘I Need’, at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, including one finger painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Chile is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2004 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy meets with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in Barcelona, Spain. |
2004 | ||||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation and performs a concert at the Fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions at the Universal Forum for Cultures in Barcelona, Spain. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for Prabhu Jagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 8TH | ![]() |
1975 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Willow, Woodstock, NY, USA. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks: | ||
Imagination | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
My Lifelong Friends | 12:35 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
Aspiration | 9:30 p.m. | Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 16-18) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1978 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centro De Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The 75 paintings fill the entire museum. |
1988 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA. |
1989 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy lifts David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand. |
1989 | |||||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Stupidity, Insecurity And Fear’, at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, NZ. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 17th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1995 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy sets 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. |
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JULY 9TH | ![]() |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at ABF Huset in Stockholm, Sweden. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks: | ||
Realisation | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
A Fleeting Life | 11:25 a.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
I Wish To Be Free | 3:20 p.m. | Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT, USA |
Experience And Realisation | 9:20 p.m. | North Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 19-22) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
1994 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Conference on World Religions at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ganesh Hindu Temple in Flushing, NY, USA. |
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JULY 10TH | ![]() |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The secret of joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden. |
1976 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY, USA. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives a spiritual talk: |
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I Am A Born Prayer | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
This talk (no. 23) is later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. |
1982 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receptivity’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. |
1983 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy begins his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1984 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 7,000 poems in one year, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1987 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
2006 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in, in Kamakura, Japan.
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JULY 11TH | ![]() |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Capacity’, at St. Thomas’ Church Hall in Vasteras, Sweden. |
1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on National Public Radio and broadcast nationwide throughout the USA. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: |
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You Are Spiritual | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Spirituality | 10:00 p.m. | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 24-25) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 1. |
1982 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs 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. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at the ‘Runners are Smilers’ race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA. |
1992 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs 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. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 18th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy bench presses a 700-lb. dumbbell, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2006 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mount Fuji’s Sengen Jinja shrine in Fujiyama, Japan. |
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JULY 12TH | ![]() |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France. |
1975 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We learn’, at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks: |
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Illumination | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Expectation | 1:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 26-27) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2. |
1980 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA. |
1986 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1987 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1995 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil. |
1997 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA. |
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JULY 13TH | ![]() |
1970 | ||||
My Ivy League Leaves is the first book published by Chinmoy Publishing Company, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes his 1,000-poem volume, entitled Europe-Blossoms. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives seven spiritual talks: | ||
Obedience Was My Way Of Life | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
You And Your Perfection | 9:35 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
Yoga And Oneness | 9:37 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
Hatha Yoga | 9:39 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
Intuition | 9:41 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
Perfection | 9:43 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
If You Have, Then Come To Me | 9:45 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 28-34) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
2000 | ||||
Mali is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2001 | ||||
France is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2002 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 113 pilots in a single day, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, at Boeing Field Auditorium in Seattle, WA, USA. |
2006 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Sri Chinmoy also offers a bouquet in a soulful tribute at the Peace Memorial. |
2006 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy meets with Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, and presents him with a Jharna-Kala painting at City Hall in Hiroshima, Japan. |
2006 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes 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 sets them to music the following day. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 14TH | ![]() |
1973 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy tells three spiritual stories — Inner meditation and outer vibration, The yogi's advice and With hope-food I exist — subsequently published in the book, Is God really partial? |
1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks: | ||||
I Am Privileged | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
I Am Helpless | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
Get Up! | 5:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
Don’t Suffer! | 5:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA | ||
Disciples, Followers, Admirers And Well-Wishers | 8:40 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA | ||
Reliance | 8:53 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA | ||
These talks (nos. 35-40) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1985 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 60-lb. lift using only one-arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes words for Mozart’s ‘Minuet in G’ – the first time his words are set to classical music, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy wins a 100m race in 15.47 sec. and places 2nd in the 200m event in 31.78 sec., in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 19th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1999 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves 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. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 55 people, including numerous professors at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy plays 51 of his own melodies on the sitar. The recording of this first-ever performance on the sitar is later released on a CD entitled ‘Impossibility Surrenders’. |
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JULY 15TH | ![]() |
1968 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘I know what to do’, at the Retailer’s Centre in Haro Rey, Puerto Rico. |
1970 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Garland of Nation-Souls’, to the United Nations World Youth Congress at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Experiences’, at Friends House in Brighton, UK. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks: | ||
It Is Not Enough | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Awareness, Devotedness, Soulfulness And Selflessness | 12:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
I Do Not Imitate; I Do Not Initiate | 10:00 p.m. | North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 41-43) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including Therese Rossides, wife of Zenon Rossides, former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1994 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 16TH | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for a nine-day visit to Puerto Rico. |
1967 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives his first radio talk on Radio Station WITA (‘Imparcial’). He speaks for eight minutes on the subject, ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’ |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Obedience’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK. |
1976 | ||||
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“We want only peace, peace. You are praying for peace. I know what you and the Group are doing for us. I know it, I can feel it.” — Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981) | |||
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, and receives the UN Silver Medallion, at the United Nations in New York. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks: | ||
Why Do I Hide? | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
I Am In Preparation | 12:20 p.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
Humility And Compassion | 6:25 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
Obedience | 6:45 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
I Need More | 9:05 p.m. | Kean College, Union, NJ, USA |
Salvation, Liberation, Realisation, Perfection And Satisfaction | 10:00 p.m. | In transit to Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 44-49) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1979 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Will Stone Collection in San Francisco, CA, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA. |
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1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy juggles 3 balls over 450 times in London, UK. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK. |
1976 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives nine spiritual talks: | ||
Charity | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Examination | 8:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Gifts | 3:00 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Who Is The Winner? | 3:05 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Two Trains | 3:10 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Who Is Knocking? | 3:15 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Disobedience And Penalty | 3:20 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Secrets | 3:25 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
Something is missing | 9:10 p.m. | American University, Washington, DC, USA |
These talks (nos. 50-58) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1978 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada. |
1986 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden. |
1986 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden. |
1991 | |||||||
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Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert with an organ performance — the 20th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Donetsk, Ukraine. |
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JULY 18TH | ![]() |
1976 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives his first esraj concert, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks: | ||
Off The Path | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Disobedience Is The Order Of The Day | 6:55 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
The Red Stoplight | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Yesterday Was The Time | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
To Be Divinely Great | 12:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
If You Want To Be Great | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Gratitude | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
In The Human World | 7:00 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
Our Beloved Supreme | 7:05 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
God’s Compassion Flows, God’s Justice Grows | 7:10 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
To Live In The Desire-World | 7:15 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
I Was A Student Of Prayer | 7:20 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
I Wanted To Tell God | 7:25 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
I Lived Only Twice | 7:30 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
I Shall Sing Today | 7:35 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
The Purpose Of Human Life | 7:40 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
What More Can I Give You? | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
Divine Pilgrimage | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
Lord Of My Life, Friend Of My Heart | 8:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 59-77) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 3 and Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1986 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland. |
1987 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert performance at the annual puja in Geeta Temple, Elmhurst, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Art Gallery in London, UK. |
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JULY 19TH | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Puerto Rico’, under the auspices of the YMCA of Santurce, Puerto Rico. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, at the Grand Hall, Caxton Hall, in London, UK. |
1976 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an ‘Honorary Resident of Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks: | ||
Acceptance | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Empty Moments | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Do You Want To Be Perfect? | 7:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Where Are They? | 10:15 p.m. | Co-op City, Bronx, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 78-81) are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1980 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the ‘Center for the Light’ in New Marlboro, MA, USA. |
1985 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Champaklal-ji from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1986 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Retretti Concert Hall in Punkaharju, Finland. |
1996 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 5,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 480-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift (240 lbs. with both arms simultaneously) in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 2,100-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 20TH | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives 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. |
1967 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy appears on television for the first time. He is interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1977 | ||
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks: | ||
It Is Never Too Late | 6:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
God Has Made This World Round | 6:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Am I A Giver? | 6:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Is It My Fate? | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
What Am I Doing? | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Without Man And Without God | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
My Heart-To-Heart Talk | 8:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Never Make An Outer Promise | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Struggle | 12:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Special Messages | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Transformation | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Why Do I Not Share? | 12:50 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Substitutes | 1:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Now | 1:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
I Kept Praying | 1:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Newness | 5:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Why Are You In A Hurry? | 5:10 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Dreaming And Planning | 5:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
Are You The Lamp Of God? | 9:40 p.m. | Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, are later published in Everest-Aspiration Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes his famous song, ‘Everest-Aspiration!’ — on the 4th anniversary of the completion of his 100 Everest-Aspiration talks — in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1983 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, recited poems and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, at the Arie Crown Theatre in Chicago, IL, USA. |
1991 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
An exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York. |
2000 | ||||
Grenada is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2002 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. |
2005 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. |
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JULY 21ST | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gives 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. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers 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. |
1974 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy first plays the Indian flute, in Reykjavik, Iceland. |
1979 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1,500 metres (6:15) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Santurce, Puerto Rico. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 21st of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1995 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert at the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA. |
1995 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Niger and Panama are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Quincy Jones, musician, composer, arranger and producer, at his home in Los Angeles; and later lifts Lee Underwood, musician, biographer, music critic and author, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
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JULY 22ND | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
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Except from an informal talk given at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Puerto Rico, on September 29, 1974: “Seven years ago, when I was totally unknown to the seekers’ world, it was Puerto Rico that saw something in me. Call it Light, call it Peace, call it Bliss... That is why it opened its heart’s door and welcomed me to be of dedicated service to the Supreme here. “As long as I am on earth and when I am gone, when the soul leaves the body-cage, I shall remember Puerto Rico with my heart’s eternal gratitude and my soul’s concern-light.” — Sri Chinmoy |
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Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Aum Centre (later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre) in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It is legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.) |
1974 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presents President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2. |
1977 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1984 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
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JULY 23RD | ![]() |
1944 | ||||
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Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joins the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stays 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 are reunited.
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1971 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA. |
1975 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY. |
1976 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St Xavier School, New York, NY, USA. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. |
1988 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy performs a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA. |
1989 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 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. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA. |
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JULY 24TH | ![]() |
1975 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy leads the first National Day of Prayer Observance at the United Nations in New York. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 23rd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Bayard Taylor School in New York, NY, USA. |
1997 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Peru and Swaziland are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations. |
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JULY 25TH | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy leaves Puerto Rico to return to New York. |
1979 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Concert at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut, USA.
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2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Landmark Community Center in Port Washington, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best lift of 1,200 lbs. using a double dumbbell bench press (600 lbs. in each hand), in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Samir Chatterjee, renowned tabla player, and his wife Sanghamitra Chatterjee, vocalist, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 26TH | ![]() |
1967 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘Students, devotees and disciples’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1980 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Woodstock, NY, USA. |
1995 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy composes his 8,000th Bengali song, ‘Phukai Amara Jibana Samare’, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 27TH | ![]() |
1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy and his students perform a concert of spiritual music at PS 86 Auditorium, corner of Parsons Blvd. and 87th Ave., Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. |
1981 | ||||
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday are read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC USA. |
1981 | ||||
The Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix begins – 31 races over 31 days to honour Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday. Sri Chinmoy runs 440 yards (402.3 m) in a time of 1 min. 21.1 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1985 | ||||
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The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held in Greenwich, CT, USA. |
1994 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. |
1999 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA. |
2002 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving – Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert – 31st anniversary of first bamboo straight flute performance – in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2006 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 28TH | ![]() |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs 2 miles in a time of 14 min. 33 sec. (7:16/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA. |
1985 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy hosts a reception for Vinay Verma, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bösendorfer Center in New York, NY, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 24th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2003 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 professors at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Great Drikung Kagyu Yogi, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2006 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN, USA. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves an 800-lb lift using a seated one-arm lift in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
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JULY 29TH | ![]() |
1979 | ||||
The first Sri Chinmoy Triathlon is held in Groton, CT, USA. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 800 metres (2:47) on the road at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on 150th Street in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1988 | ||||||
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Sri Chinmoy lifts Joe Franklin, TV talk show host of the ‘Joe Franklin Show’, and taped an interview with him in Secaucus, NJ, USA. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, where he meets with Olympic Relay champions Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh, at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. |
1999 | ||||
Kyrgyzstan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Addwitiya Roberta Flack in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2004 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts Kristio Wahyono, Consul-General of Indonesia to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2007 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 6 planes and a glider at Brookhaven Airport on Long Island, NY, USA. |
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JULY 30TH | ![]() |
1966 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy’s writings begin to appear regularly in El Mundo in Puerto Rico under the heading ‘Una Pausa en el Dia’. Sri Chinmoy’s words are translated into Spanish by Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro). |
1978 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Victoria, BC, Canada. |
1979 | ||||
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA. |
1983 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada. |
1985 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 lbs. using one arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1986 | ||||
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Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,500 lbs. using a standing calf raise at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1988 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 boxing champions, including Don Lalonde, WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1990 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Hollis Conway, 1988 Olympic silver medallist, high jump, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 25th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2005 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA. |
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JULY 31ST | ![]() |
1977 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers 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. |
1981 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best of 33.6 sec. for 200 metres during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1986 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
1993 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 26th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA. |
2000 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA. |
2001 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy lifts, and offers 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. |
2004 | ||||
Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – in Jamaica, NY, USA. |