Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at San Cristobal Fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Australia, Do Have My Indian Heart!’.

Sri Chinmoy meets with José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Residence in Los Pinos in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Antonio Caldera, former President of Venezuela, at President Caldera’s office in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (143) and organ recital (26) at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

At a morning shot put session, at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sri Chinmoy displays the ten shot puts — with weights of 6, 8, 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, 35, 40 and 50 lbs. — with which he has been practising.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former Senator Hiram Fong at the Senator Fong Plantation and Gardens in Kaneohe, Oahu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (388) at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes 700,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (400) at the Royal Nepal Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, (477) attended by Reverend Mitsuo Sato, Head Priest of Kotoku-in Temple, at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio at the Office of the Archbishop, at Cathedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (553) at Orchard Parade Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and Bun Rany Hun Sen, First Lady of Cambodia, preceded by a 30-minute private meeting and followed by a live televised ceremony sent to 126 countries, at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a symbolic gesture, the Prime Minister also holds the Peace Torch.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Lydia Bradley, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; and Guy Cotter, two-time Mt. Everest climber, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people and was named an Honorary Fellow of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta (Solo), at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

Sri Chinmoy tells ten stories to his students while on a Christmas trip in Qingdao, China.