Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joins the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stays for the next twenty years before coming to the West. His eldest brother Hriday had already left the family home in Chittagong almost twelve years earlier to join the Ashram. On this day, all seven children of Shashi Kumar and Yogamaya Ghosh are reunited.
A twenty-year-old ‘Chinmoy’ competes in track and field events, including the pole vault, on Sports Day at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St. Xavier High School, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for his students at a picnic area in Hidden Valley Park, near Woodstock, New York. He offers everyone bags of prasad containing 100 items in honour of the recent completion of his 100 ‘Everest-Aspiration’ talks.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy takes a group of children on a trip from New York to Niagara Falls. During the long bus ride, the children ask him a number of questions and he, in turn, asks each of them several questions. These are later published in a book entitled, Niagara Falls versus Children’s Rise.
Sri Chinmoy performs a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 champion runners and athletes, including Sudhahota Carl Lewis, 9-time Olympic gold medallist; Butch Reynolds, Olympic gold and silver medallist, 400m; and Jim Hines, Olympic gold medallist 100m, at the ‘The Morning of Champion-Hearts Supreme’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (360) — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes thirty-eight poems in tribute to John F. Kennedy, Jr. (25 Nov. 1960-16 Jul. 1999) — one for each year of his life on earth. The poems are later published in John Kennedy: The World-Treasure-Home.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.
Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.
India Post, published in America, reports on Sri Chinmoy’s involvement in the fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA.