Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled, ‘Three Secrets: Reincarnation, Evolution and Transformation’ – later published in two parts as Two Secrets: Reincarnation and Evolution and Evolution – to a group of spiritual aspirants at the residence of Mrs. Ida Patterson in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1976 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. Afterwards, at an informal gathering, Sri Chinmoy offers his remarks about ‘Fulfilling a New Year's Resolution’.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, attended by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., opens at the UN Secretariat Lobby in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Kyoto, Japan

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (22) at Hotel Meliá in Torremolinos, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (53) at the Science Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including The Venerable Pratamkunaporn, Abbot of the Wat Po Temple, at Wat Po Temple in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Ronnie Weerakoon, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Egypt, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (257) at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Valentina Matvienko, Ambassador of Russia to Malta, at the Russian Embassy in Valetta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with and lifted Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Hindu Monastery in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (476)at the Kyoto Terrsa Hall in Kyoto, Japan, attended by Bishop Dwight R. Nakamura, Abbot of Daijuji Temple.

Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers race in Singapore. Due to a persistent, painful knee injury, he walks just one mile in a time of 21:09.

Sri Chinmoy and his students take a boat ride on the ‘Casablanca Rio’, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Li Ming Zhu, including Li Ming Zhu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Red Cross Foundation. He also receives a gift from Guo Zhen Jia, Xiamen Vice Mayor, at the Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.