Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy juggles three balls over 450 times in London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy gives nine spiritual talks, part of a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
Charity, 7:35 a.m., and Examination, 8:40 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Gifts, 3:00 p.m., Who Is The Winner?, 3:05 p.m., Two Trains, 3:10 p.m., Who Is Knocking?, 3:15 p.m., Disobedience And Penalty, 3:20 p.m., and Secrets, 3:25 p.m., in transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA
Something is missing, 9:10 p.m., American University, Washington, DC, USA
These talks (nos. 50-58) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed in Bengali by journalist Kamal Ashish Chakravarty from ‘Voice of America’ in Washington, DC, USA. The taped programme, which includes a short esraj performance by Sri Chinmoy, is later broadcast on Hindi and Bengali radio stations throughout Bangladesh and India, and is heard by Sri Chinmoy’s family in Pondicherry.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first in a series of chalk poems, which he writes on the green scoreboard at the side of his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. He refers to the tennis court for the first time as ‘Illumination-Ground’. (Later, he will give it the permanent name of ‘Aspiration-Ground’.)
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Life’, at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to Dag Hammarskjöld, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Who Can Grant Me Peace?’, at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert with an organ performance — the 20th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.
Seventy thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA.
A photo of Sri Chinmoy is featured in an article published in The Vancouver Sun about the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Donetsk, Ukraine.