Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s School’, at the Catholic Chaplaincy, University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Third Eye’, at The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Watch video...
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance and Knowledge’, at the University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Sri Chinmoy meets three ultra-marathon runners who had earlier participated in a 100-mile race in Flushing Meadows Park. The runners — Don Ritchie, world-record holder for 50-mile and 100-mile track races; Frank Bozanich, US record holder for 100 kilometres; and then later in the evening, Cahit Yeter, world masters record holder for the 100-mile road race — visits Sri Chinmoy at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
To celebrate his tennis anniversary Sri Chinmoy plays and wins 100 games in 3 days in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets privately with several dignitaries — Mr. Luigi Cottafavi, Director-General of the United Nations (Geneva); Mr. Richard Pestalozzi, Vice-President of the International Red Cross Committee; and His Excellency Mr. Gurbachan Singh, Ambassador of India to Switzerland, in Geneva, Switzerland — in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Role of the United Nations’, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Felician College in Lodi, NJ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 11th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Lindsay Clennell, a film writer and producer, at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Queens, New York, NY, USA. There, Mr. Clennell asks Sri Chinmoy about his recent three-million ‘soul-bird’ drawings.
Sri Chinmoy performs a series of Rainbow-Dreamers challenges, which he had set himself: 7,000 crunch sit-ups in 1 hr. 19 min. 42 sec.; 130 crunch abdomen-ups with 302 lbs. in 4 min. 22.83 sec. (in 5 sets with brief intervals); a 1,500-lb. standing calf raise; a 250m walk wearing a 100-lb. vest; a 33” vertical jump onto a platform; a 34” standing jump onto a tape; a 120-lb. single leg-extension; a 200-lb. double leg-extension; a 110-lb. single leg-curl; reciting from memory the names of 25 exotic vegetables and the names and origin of 20 sari fabrics, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read the article in Hinduism Today...
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including professors at New York State University in New Paltz, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Sam Spanier, one of his original sponsors who assisted him in coming to America in 1964; and Sam’s friend Eric Hughes, who also assisted Sri Chinmoy in his early days in America, at Matagiri Ashram in Woodstock, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts János Starker, Grammy Award-winning cellist, and one of the world’s greatest cello prodigies, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France.