Sri Chinmoy meets with U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, when he was the guest of honour at an evening performance of Sri Chinmoy’s play, Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha, held on an outdoor stage at Old Mill Farm in Harrison, NY. Before the play, Sri Chinmoy gives a welcome speech and garlands U Thant. U Thant is accompanied by his daughter, son-in-law and young grandson.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Truth’, and presents 50 of his books to Yale Divinity School, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Liederhalle Mozart-Saal in Stuttgart, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘Lightning-Thunder: Sugar Ray’, for the American boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard — Olympic gold medalist (1976) and winner of world titles in five weight classes.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings, sponsored by the Indian Arts Council of the United Kingdom, opens at the Horizon Gallery in London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Seattle Center Memorial Stadium to an audience of 5,000 in Seattle, WA, USA.
New Mexico becomes a Sri Chinmoy Peace State in the USA.
Armenia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Philosophy’, at 10 a.m. at the Philosophical Anthropology Faculty of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before the lecture, Sri Chinmoy is presented with the ‘Golden Owl’ Sign of Honour, the highest award of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, “for enormous support in the development of sciences about man,” by Professor V.A. Rabosh, Dean of the Philosophical Anthropology Faculty.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Medicine’, at 3 p.m. at the Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before the lecture, the University’s Rector, Professor N.A. Yaitskiy presents Sri Chinmoy with a Commemorative Medal on the occasion of his University’s 100th anniversary. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the lecture to Raisa Maximovna.
Sri Chinmoy visits the ‘Future Clinic’, to be named after Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, at Pavlov State Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Music Hall of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia.