Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Is Yoga?’ and an explanation of ‘Bhakti Yoga’, at the home of Sita (Mrs. Maria Teresa Gonzalez) in Rio Pedro, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy appears on television for the first time. He is interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks, part of 100 lectures in 20 days.
It Is Never Too Late, 6:15 a.m., God Has Made This World Round, 6:20 a.m., Am I A Giver?, 6:35 a.m., Is It My Fate?, 6:45 a.m., What Am I Doing?, 8:10 a.m., Without Man And Without God, 8:15 a.m., My Heart-To-Heart Talk, 8:20 a.m., and Never Make An Outer Promise, 8:30 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Struggle, 12:15 p.m., Special Messages, 12:30 p.m., Transformation, 12:40 p.m., Why Do I Not Share?, 12:50 p.m., Substitutes, 1:00 p.m., Now, 1:15 p.m., I Kept Praying, 1:30 p.m., Newness, 5:00 p.m., Why Are You In A Hurry?, 5:10 p.m., and Dreaming And Planning, 5:20 p.m., at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
Are You The Lamp Of God?, 9:40 p.m., Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT, USA
These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4.
Sri Chinmoy composes his famous song, ‘Everest-Aspiration!’ — which coincides with the 4th anniversary of the completion of his 100 Everest-Aspiration talks — in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago; and Beverly Owens, daughter of Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist, at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (198), recites four peace poems and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, in Arie Crown Theater, at McCormick Place, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games held at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA.
Grenada is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
An exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Payton Jordan, US Track and Field Olympian and coach, holder of over 60 world records in Masters sprinting, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.