Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Learn’, at Southampton College Theatre, Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks, part of 100 lectures in 20 days.
Illumination, 8:15 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Expectation, 1:50 p.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA
These talks (nos. 26-27) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs a 2-mile race, placing third in the men’s 40-49 age group in a time of 15 min. 51 sec., at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. Twenty minutes later, he runs a 5-mile race in a time of 43 min. 33 sec.
Sri Chinmoy meets folk singer Richie Havens when he visits the Madal Circus practice in Queens, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo Chira Alokito Antar, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (515) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 46th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada. He is welcomed by Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 13,000th Bengali song Shakpura Shakpura Purba Shakpura Gram during an evening function with his students at the Kamakura Park Hotel in Kamakura, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA.