Sri Chinmoy delivers the second in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’, in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy first learns to play the Western flute on a bus journey to Healesville Sanctuary on the outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Read article…

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Simplicity, Sincerity, Purity and Divinity’, at the Melbourne Assembly Hall in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

After months of following a strict diet and exercise regime, Sri Chinmoy finally reaches a bodyweight of 130 pounds. His students award him the good-humoured ‘Nobelly Prize’.

Sri Chinmoy’s meditation group at the UN sponsors a programme in tribute to International Women’s Day — 8 March being the official date — at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, at Progress-Promise function hall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aurora Concert Hall in Florence, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore — Florence Cathedral — in Florence, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy answers questions about his visit to Japan at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nippon Budokan Hall to an audience of 12,000 in Tokyo, Japan. Afterwards, some 3,000 seekers slowly file past Sri Chinmoy for darshan, his silent blessing.