Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s Meditation and Message for the New Year (1972) for the public at Columbia University, New York City. It is attended by over 800 seekers. Sri Chinmoy and Jamaica area disciples travel there on the maiden trip of the new Centre bus ‘Alo Bani’.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the Spiritual Life?’, at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s 300th book Aspiration-Tree is published. It is the first hard-bound book produced by the Sri Chinmoy Centre Press in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, and presents him with 300 of his published books for the NYC Public Library, which the mayor receives at City Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura. During this fourth visit to the monument, he is invited to a special Japanese tea ceremony and banquet inside the Kōtoku-in Temple, at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (387) at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (399) at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, attended by special guests Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal; B. B. Karki, Speaker of the Nepal Upper House; R. C. Poudel, Speaker of the Nepal House of Representatives; H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal; and P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (606) with the guest of honour General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (607) at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ recital at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song for the children of China, entitled ‘I am a Great Chinese Boy, I am a Good Chinese Girl’, while in Xiamen, China. During his visit to China, Sri Chinmoy composes 419 new songs in Bengali and English.