Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Aspiration and Wisdom’, at a private hall in Milan, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Jiban Debata’ in a hotel elevator in Greece. He later revises the list of his Bengali songs to make this song his 2000th. (The approximate date of composition could be as late as 7 July 1978.)

Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at a nine-day reading of the Ramayana at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (354) — the 16th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (411) at the Aotea Centre in Aukland, New Zealand, at which a message from Prime Minister Jim Bolger is read out. The concert is introduced by the Mayor of Auckland Mr. Les Mills who, like Sri Chinmoy, had been a track and field athlete in his youth.

Panaji, the capital of the Indian state of Goa, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom City.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts illusionist David Copperfield at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts eight of the world’s strongest men, including IFSA world cham­pion Zydrunas Savickas, as part of a three-day strongman competition in Philadelphia, PA, USA.