Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled ‘Conscience’, at Sherwood Hall Boys’ School, Stuart Avenue, Forest Town, Nottinghamshire, Mansfield, UK.
Sri Chinmoy completes 500 Jharna-Kala paintings in 100 minutes, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at the start of the 9,000-mile Liberty Torch Relay, at Battery Park in Manhattan, NY, USA. New York Lieutenant-Governor Mary Ann Krupsak lights the torch, which the runners will carry day and night for the next six weeks through all 50 American states.
Sri Chinmoy’s song ‘Welcome’ is named an official welcoming song of the City of Albany by Mayor Erastus Corning when it is played on the Carillon at City Hall in Albany, New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets Ambassador Ilinome Tarua of Papua New Guinea following a programme for United Nations Charter Day, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy begins his weightlifting career with an overhead lift of 40 lbs. at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (155) at his third weightlifting anniversary, where he inaugurates the Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart Award by lifting Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, 5-time Mr. Universe, at Julia Richman High School in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a 10:30 a.m. morning meditation to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter at London’s Westminster Methodist Central Hall in Westminster Abbey in London, UK. (This is especially significant because in that same hall on 26 June 1944 the first General Assembly of the United Nations took place.) Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy holds a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at which he lifts pianist Andre Desponds and others.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘Oxford University’.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (193) with an organ recital (51), preceded by a short talk entitled ‘A Conversation with My Lord Supreme’, in the Sheldonian Theatre, at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Sri Chinmoy’s special guest at both his concert and the organ recital is Sir George Trevelyan, the grandfather of the Movement for Spiritual Regeneration in Britain. (The famous theatre was designed by Sir Christopher Wren around 1664.)
Sri Chinmoy gives an afternoon organ recital (50) at Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church College, in Oxford University, followed by a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme in the home garden of, antiquarian and missionary in India, Mr. Robin Waterfield in Oxford. Sri Chinmoy honours Professor Dame Dorothy Hodgkin (1964 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of Oxford); Professor B.K. Matilal (Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Oxford); Dr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clark (historian and author, University of Oxford); Sir George Trevelyan (educator and founder of the Wrekin Trust); and host of the function Mr. Robin Waterfield.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (353) — the 15th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Paul Robeson Theater in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits three of the five Canberra Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital signs that are placed at the road entrances to Australia’s capital city. The next afternoon, Sri Chinmoy visits the other two signs. Canberra was dedicated as Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital on 16 March 1995 by the Federal Minister for Sport Ros Kelly.
Sri Chinmoy visits a display of his ‘Soul-Bird’ artworks in the Senate Foyer of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Prior to Sri Chinmoy’s arrival in Australia, the public exhibition had been on display since 7 June and continues through to 30 June 1995.
At the invitation of Prime Minister Paul Keating, Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (408) — the 8th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations — in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. (The concert coincides with the exact date of the signing of the United Nations Charter 50 years earlier in San Francisco, CA, USA.)
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special banquet for Environmental Ministers — the Bangladesh Minister for Environment and Forests, Mrs. Sajeda Chowdhury; Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, J. E. Afful; and Zimbabwe’s Minister of Environment and Tourism, Chen Chimutengwende; as well as representatives from the Bahamas Moldova and Sweden — at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy presents his honoured guests with an environmental and peace award on behalf of ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’, which he leads.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 900 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Uganda is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Jim Smith, World Masters Weightlifting Champion, in Standlake, Oxfordshire, UK.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including numerous professors, at Oxford University in Oxford, UK.
Sri Chinmoy recounts ‘Two Sweet Incidents’ in the Bronx, at an informal gathering of his students at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, LA, USA.