Sri Chinmoy receives the 1974 Annual Mentor Poetry Award from the North American Mentor magazine for his poem ‘O Bird of Light’.
Sri Chinmoy writes 8 more Indian stories (88-95), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.
Teide National Park, which includes Mount Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy National Peace Park, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, at which King of the Zulu Nation HRH Goodwill Kabhekuzulu Zwelithini delivers the welcome address, in City Hall, Durban, South Africa. The King unveils the plaque declaring Durban a Sri Chinmoy Peace Metropolitan Area, which is presented by the Acting Mayor, Councillor Panday, and the Chairperson of the Metropolitan Executive Council, Mr. Obed Mlaba. The City Hall also hosts an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks. Read more...
The Hungarian State Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
Sri Chinmoy’s play about India’s greatest freedom-fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is performed for the first time. It is staged by Sri Chinmoy’s students in Kagoshima, Japan, on the day of Netaji’s Birth Centenary. Sri Chinmoy originally wrote the play in Bengali in 1948 at the age of just sixteen. In November 1996, he translated it into English.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in observance of the Birth Centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — India’s legendary revolutionary leader and hero — at the Sun Royal Hotel in Kagoshima, Japan.
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with the President of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy completes his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of India Award.
In a short talk to his students, given at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Sri Chinmoy encourages them to train for a marathon and announces his wish to have a public marathon with the goal of 700 participants. (On 30 August 2002, the first Self-Transcendence Marathon takes place at Rockland Lake State Park in Congers, New York, attracting over 700 runners. It becomes an annual event. Watch the video of the first race...)
Sri Chinmoy begins writing this collection of 50 meditative aphorisms — Fifty Oneness-Heart-Songs of a Perfect God and a Perfect Child — in China, during a bus ride from Xi'an to Huangshan, and he finishes it the same day upon his arrival in Huangshan, China.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at a dinner hosted and attended by HRH Daulat Tuanku, the Sultan of Pahang, in Kuantan, Malaysia.