July

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.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The inner hunger’, at Trinity College, Dublin University in Dublin, Ireland.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear in the spiritual life’, at Biblioteca Comunale in Milan, Italy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and gives a talk, entitled ‘You are our All’, at the State Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for Prabhu Jagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 17th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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.

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

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

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers 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 opens at the Regional Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The secret of joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden.

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

Sri Chinmoy gives a spiritual talk:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We learn’, at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 19th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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.

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

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’.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?’

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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

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.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers 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 opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 21st of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.)

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.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel,  Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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.

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.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.

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

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

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.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy leaves Puerto Rico to return to New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Concert at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut, USA.

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

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.

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

Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘Students, devotees and disciples’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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

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.

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

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.

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

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 24th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 25th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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