Sri Chinmoy delivers an invited talk to the School of Self-Defense, 280 Closter Dock Road. Closter, New Jersey. The school, under the direction of Mr. Michael Depasquale, a Police officer, teaches Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, and other forms of self-defence.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks is hosted by the Bankers Trust Company at their offices, corner of Third Avenue and 52nd Street, Manhattan, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a piano performance at the Tiergarten Halle in Nuremberg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano performance and an organ performance; and delivers a lecture, entitled, ‘You Have Awakened Me’, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, USA. The recital is later released on a music cassette entitled, Soul-Fragrance-Jubilee.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace ConcertPeace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at Martin Luther King High School in New York, NY, USA. Listen to the CD...

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, held at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games and presented the first place award to Sudhahota Carl Lewis at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs 4,000 consecutive crunch sit-ups without stopping in 47 min. 28.53 sec. — a rate of over 84 stomach crunches per minute — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 32nd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Christ Church, Oxford University, in Oxford, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert, the start of ‘Prayerful Music by Maestro Sri Chinmoy’ series, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts tennis player Billie Jean King at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a total weight of 1,100 lbs. with two arms from a seated position, at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people including 5 people over 100 years old and Ms. Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, at the Ulaanbaatar Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia, and also gives him an original Jharna-Kala painting. The President also views the Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Union of Mongolian Artists Gallery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by NTV for the first episode of a new programme called ‘No Beginning, No End’ at the Ulaanbaatar Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.