Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for a gathering of his disciples, held in the back gardens of the Connecticut Centre to celebrate the third anniversary of its foundation.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘A True Seeker’, at St. Xavier Auditorium, St. Francis Xavier School, 122 West 17th Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks, part of 100 lectures in 20 days:
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 completes a series of 7,000 bird drawings — ‘Immortality’s Seven Thousand Sunrise-Birds’ — to achieve a total of 62,000 since he began sketching birds on December 29th, 1991. He also writes a Bengali song for ‘62,000 Birds’.
Sri Chinmoy hosts a dinner for Aleksandr Razvin, the Deputy Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (514) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 45th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — 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.