Sri Chinmoy attends the first performance of ‘Madal Circus’ at Hillcrest High School gymnasium in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon (3 p.m.) lecture, entitled ‘The Mind Power Versus the Heart Power’, and an evening (8 p.m.) lecture, entitled ‘How to Solve World Problems’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy and his 135-member team line up with more than 9,000 other cyclists at the midday start of the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bike Marathon in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy leads a 197-member team of his students to victory in the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bike Marathon in Central Park over the Memorial Day weekend. The team of 114 men and 83 women wins multiple first-place prizes: best riding team (total of 38,605 miles); best ten-member riding team, best 10-25 member team (24-members, 6,355 miles); first place for women (Pragati Pascale), 305 miles); and best uniform (orange shorts, white shirts and rainbow coloured hats). Ashrita Furman, 405 miles, places third for men. Sri Chinmoy himself rides 230 miles.
Sri Chinmoy presents 47 of his books to Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (343) — the fifth of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in Fishkill, NY, USA.
Brazil is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Rafael Greca de Maceda. Brazil becomes South America’s first Peace-Blossom-Nation.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the International University (in Moscow), where Sri Chinmoy delivers an 11:00 a.m. lecture, entitled ‘United Nations’, and receives the Gold Medal of Honour by Dr. S.N. Krasavchenko, Rector of the University, in the University Great Conference Hall in Moscow, Russia. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the lecture to the International University in Moscow and to the Soul of the United Nations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, at the State Central Concert Hall ‘Russia’ in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (afternoon and evening) at the Teatro Della Luna in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy receives an award for his contribution to sports from the Soul and Fitness Institute in Milan, Italy.