Sri Chinmoy is invited for the first time to participate in an interfaith forum, the Fall Semester Lecture Program, held at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center, Long Island, N.Y. The program features guest speakers from various faiths and traditions. Sri Chinmoy is extremely honoured to be the representative of Hinduism, as his name had been put forward by India’s Consul General in New York, S. K. Roy. The lecture Sri Chinmoy delivers is entitled, ‘Hinduism: The Journey of India’s Soul’.
Sri Chinmoy performs an esraj concert at the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sr Chinmoy runs ten miles of the Jersey Shore Marathon.
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s concert and delivers his New Year’s message for the year 1986, at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates with U.N. Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar following a UNESCO meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (255) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (285) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a special programme entitled ‘Performances Unprecedented and Unhorizoned’ in which he paints 7 large Jharna-Kala paintings, and then performs on seven instruments, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (384) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. The address is given by C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (447) — the 47th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 9,000th Bengali song Tomare Tushite Tomar Lagiya in Honolulu, HI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 146 three-month-old pure Romney lambs (855-1,000) on his sixth day of lifting at Kiwitahi Land Co. Farm, Taupo, New Zealand — for a total weight of 12,072 lb. The grand total weight for 1,000 lambs was 81,259 lb. (36,936 kg).
An exhibition of 78 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks in honour of Sri Aurobindo’s 78 years on earth — begun on 26 November and completed on 5 December (the anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi) — is displayed at Pangkor Island Beach Resort on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.