Sri Chinmoy delivers the first lecture (2 p.m.) in his 50-state lecture series, entitled ‘Thought-Waves’, in Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. All 50 lectures are later published as Fifty Freedom-Boats to one Golden Shore.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘Realisation, Revelation and Perfection’, in Paine Hall, Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
At his home in New York, Sri Chinmoy offers an inspiring talk to the 13 relay runners of the Liberty Torch Bicentennial Run before they embark on their three-day, 360-mile, non-stop relay from New York City to Washington DC, USA
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about Service to the United Nations at the United Nations in New York., where he also answers a series of questions.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Divine Friends and Undivine Foes’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy writes 10 more Indian stories (22-31), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 2.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Baron von Wechmar, President, UN General Assembly, to present him with the second annual Human Rights Award, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Saeng Chandra Ngarm, former dean of Chiang Mai University, in the Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy has his third meeting with Sri Lanka’s President Ranasinghe Premadasa who inscribes two of his own books for Sri Chinmoy naming him ‘Ambassador of Peace’ at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hindu Dharma Vidya Bhavan Institute in Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy is the guest of honour at a cultural programme hosted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Tipitaka Nykarya Upahsaka Sasana organisation at the Kaba Aye Pagoda compound in Yangon, Myanmar. During the programme, Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer to Lord Buddha and delivers a speech. And, he later meets with the Minister of Religious Affairs, Lieutenant-General Myo Nyunt.
The Czech newspaper Zlínské Listy reports on Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s message for 1998 and notes his contributions to Peace through his Peace Concerts and the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
Sri Chinmoy composes 201 songs in 4 hours, the most he has composed in one day, in Cancún, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Chinese Town Hall, Penang, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bourbon Iguaçu Falls Hotel, Iguaçu Falls, Brazil. After his concert, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from several television stations.
Sri Chinmoy offers a special talk, ‘The Human has to be Transformed into the Divine’, to the close family of Bhavani Torpy, at the Putri Bali Hotel, in Bali, Indonesia. Bhavani left this world on 25 December 2000.
While visiting his family in Pondicherry, India, Sri Chinmoy meditates under the same tree where he had meditated on October 23rd, 1955, stopping his heartbeat for seven minutes. This time, almost 60 years later, he “enjoyed the same experience.”
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hai Tian Hotel in Qingdao, China.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled, ‘I Identify With You’, at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort in Kijal, Malaysia.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti — in Florence, Italy.