Sri Chinmoy is interviewed at a morning press conference, held at his hotel in Adelaide, SA, Australia. There, he sings ‘O My Australia’ and plays the esraj. Later that evening, excerpts go to broadcast on Channel 7 News — the first time his esraj playing had been broadcast on television anywhere in the world.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Bishop Phillip Kennedy, the Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, SA, Australia. Also present at the meeting is Sister Patricia Fox as well as the leader of Sri Chinmoy’s Adelaide Centre, Sipra Lloyd.
Sri Chinmoy is received at Government House in Adelaide, SA, Australia, where he is the luncheon guest of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Mark Oliphant.
Sri Chinmoy visits Adelaide’s ABC TV studios in the afternoon to tape an interview for ‘This Day Tonight’ with compere Geoff Michells for the evening programme.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture, entitled, ‘Possession and Satisfaction’, in the Napier Lecture Theatre at the University of Adelaide, SA, Australia. The lecture hall is full to capacity.
Sri Chinmoy creates four large acrylic Jharna-Kala paintings and seven ballpoint-pen ink sketches at the Adelaide Centre.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Bob de Jong of Veronica TV, the Netherlands.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at St. Bavo Kerk in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The organ Sri Chinmoy plays is one that Mozart once played when he was around 16 years of age.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at Grote Kerk in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert playing various instruments, and a piano performance at the Congress Building in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Sri Chinmoy recounts a dream, ‘The Divine Runner Inspires the Human Runner’.
Sri Chinmoy composes the Peace Run song, which has since been sung in over 155 nations and territories around the world as part of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run global torch relay.
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo 100 metres in a time of 13.91 seconds at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, breaking his previous 100-metre record in the West of 14.13 seconds, set on 18 January 1992, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Armenia Award.
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch — symbol of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run — with Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis and his mother Ambalika Evelyn Lewis.