Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear in the Spiritual Life’, at Biblioteca Comunale, Piazzale Accursio, in Milan, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks, part of 100 lectures in 20 days:

Theoretical Surrender and Practical Surrender, 8:37 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Satisfaction, 8:35 p.m., P.S. 86 High School, Jamaica, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 6 & 7) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1

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 that he began on 22 October 1979. At Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, he celebrates the occasion and writes the very last poem on a whiteboard. Read article...

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (118) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes two songs for Ten Thousand Flower-Flamesone in English and one in Bengali — on the 5th anniversary of the completion of his poetry epic.

Sri Chinmoy offers the 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 at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

The German newspaper Schweriner Volkszeitung reports on Sri Chinmoy’s two-arm dumbbell lift of 400 lbs.

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