Sri Chinmoy tells an inspirational story, entitled ‘The Master and the Mother Superior’.
Sri Chinmoy holds his first 7-hour Public Meditation at All Angels’ Church, Manhattan, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a birthday tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at the United Nations in New York. ‘FDR’ was born on January 30, 1882.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to US President Woodrow Wilson and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receiving Peace’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Progress-Promise function hall in Queens, NY, USA.
India’s Ambassador to the United States, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, writes an article in Bhavan’s Journal. Vol. 42, No.12, about Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert, which he attended two months earlier in Washington DC, USA. Sri Chinmoy asked the ambassador to introduce the concert.
Sri Chinmoy writes his book, I am flying and flying and flying, in his own handwriting.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the Inauguration Ceremony of Nepal as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom–Nation. There, he also meets with Kirthi Nidhi Bista and Lokendra Bahadur Chand, both Former Prime Ministers. Also attending is the Speaker of the Upper House of the National Assembly. The ceremony at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, includes a trumpeting Elephant Welcome.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Heart and Soul of Hinduism’ award from Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, the Indonesia Hinduism Society. The presentation is made by the acting chairman at Lembaga Dharma Duta in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Huangshan Pine Golf And Country Club in Huangshan, China.
Sri Chinmoy introduces push-ups into his morning exercise sessions — the day after lifting 270 pounds in the wrist curl. It is the first time he had done push-ups on a Christmas trip since 7 January 1986 in Kyoto, Japan, where he performed 2,230 push-ups continuously in 59 minutes and 50 seconds.
Bob Dylan recites Sri Chinmoy’s poem ‘The Lock and the Key’ on the weekly one-hour satellite radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, which he hosts in the USA.