Sri Chinmoy receives the Bronze Medal of New York City from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the NYC Council City Hall, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Self-Offering’ at a meeting with his New York Centre after reading out his New Year’s Message for 1976.
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1977 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. In comjunction with the event, a large number of Sri Chinmoy ’s Jharna-Kala paintings are on display, including the stage backdrop for the occasion, the 12-by-27-foot canvas ‘Larger than the Largest’.
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1978 at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Earlier, he cooks 1,000 Indian sweets, which he gives out as prasad ‘blessed food’ on the evening.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song for Mexico. He later dedicates the song to José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at their meeting on 22 December 1981.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (52) at the Kamakura City Public Hall in Kamakura, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Toshihiko Seko, Japanese marathon champion, at Hotel Sunroute in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (88) attended by the mother and sister of Paul Ricardo Alfonsin, President of Argentina, at the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sri Chinmoy offers the first twenty-four prayers to individual Japanese students of his, during a Christmas trip visit to Japan. The prayers are later published in Part 1 of his book My Sweet Father-Lord, Where Are You?
Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including several Thai professors, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (166) at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Jehan Sadat, widow of President Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt (1970-1981), at the Sadat residence in Cairo, Egypt.
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Church, the 117th successor to Saint Mark, at the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.
Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre event in a time of 15.59 seconds, at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet, held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Central City Library in Brisbane, Australia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 56 people, including Ann Hare, Olympic middle-distance runner; Toni Jeffs, Olympic freestyle swimmer, 2002 world masters record in 50-metre freestyle; and Tim Prendergast, 2002 gold medallist and world record holder 800m in the IPC Championships for the Visually Impaired, at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and receives the City Award from Guo Zhenjia, Vice Mayor of Xiamen, at the Botanical Gardens in Xiamen, China. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy presents a delegation from the Red Cross with a large supply of blankets, school supplies and toys from his humanitarian organisation, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles. He then offers special comments about the Red Cross.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 members of the Mongolian National Circus at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.