Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Myself’, at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Where Is God?’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Realisation’, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and reads a selection of his poetry at the Loeb Student Center, New York University, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What I Need from God’, and answers audience questions in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
A 200-mile run is held to honour Sri Chinmoy’s 200-lb. lifting achievement in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. Twenty-seven of his students enter the event, each one completing the distance in 4 days, ending on 20 March.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Prime Minister Thorsheim Palsson and President Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland at Government House in Reykjavik, Iceland. Later in the afternoon, Sri Chinmoy meets with the Bishop of Iceland, Pétur Sigurgeirsson.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Frikirkjan — The Free Church of Reykjavik — in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and piano performance at the University Cinema in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at the University Cinema in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire versus Aspiration’, in Statler Hall at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Following the Peace Concert, Sri Chinmoy meets with Professor Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1981).
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mats Wilander of Sweden, 1988 world’s no. 1 tennis player, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also plays a set with the tennis champion.
Australia’s capital city Canberra is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital by the Federal Minister for Sport Ros Kelly. During his stay in the nation’s capital on 26-27 June 1995, Sri Chinmoy visits all five ‘Canberra Sri Chinmoy Peace-Capital’ signs, installed at all entrances to Canberra under the ‘Welcome to Canberra’ signs.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation for Annam Brahma customers in conjunction with the New York restaurant’s recent 21st anniversary (15 March). He also answers questions asked by the staff.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Annam Brahma’ as a tribute to the popular vegetarian restaurant of the same name, in Jamaica, New York, USA. (The previous day, 15 March, marked its 22nd anniversary.)
Sri Chinmoy achieves a standing two-arm lift of 320 lbs. (160 lbs with each arm) — a new double-arm record — in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Botswana is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by President F.G. Mogae.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of St. Lucia Award.
Russia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Paree’s singing group, My Rainbow-Heart, observes its 15th anniversary with a performance for Sri Chinmoy at Public School 86, in Jamaica, New York. At its inception, the girl singers ranged in age from eight to fourteen.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, at 11 a.m. at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Jenny Craig — founder of an international chain of exercise and weight loss centres — at 3 p.m., at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers remarks on the ‘Importance of Physical Fitness’, in Jamaica, New York, USA.