Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Vedanta Philosophy’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Bliss’, at Guelph University in Guelph, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of appreciation from U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘You and I’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to the great prophet Mohammed — founder of the world religion, Islam — at the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at the Ethical Culture Society of New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for the marathon in a time of 3:55:07 (8:58 pace) at the Heart-Watchers Marathon in Toledo, OH, USA. The temperature at the start of the race is 24°F. This is Sri Chinmoy’s second marathon, having run his first-ever marathon just 22 days earlier.
Toledo Mayor Douglas Degood declares 25 March 1979 ‘Sri Chinmoy Day’ in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives an introductory talk, entitled ‘My Name is not Sri Chinmoy. My Name is Gratitude’, at a meeting with the parents of his German disciples in Cologne, Germany. At the end of the meeting, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from some of the parents.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Gut Buschhof in Bonn-Königswinter, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Polish President Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1983), and presents him with three songs he had composed in honour of Poland and the President.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Wales Award.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 actors from the off-Broadway hit ‘The Exonerated’ including Brooke Shields, Jill Clayburgh, Marisa Tomei, Robert Vaughn and Montel Williams. The lifts occurred after the play’s 200th performance at Bleecker Street Theatre in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Invitational Marathon to be run in New York by his students who have run faster than 3:55:07 within the last 10 years.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7 horses individually, then 3 at once, at DND Horse Stables in Forest Park, NY, USA.