Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s message at a meeting with his disciples in his apartment at 4826 New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

The first issue of Anahata Nada — a Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletter — is published in Jamaica, New York, USA. It continues to be published until 2007, making it the longest-running Centre newsletter.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Admiralty House in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Sri Chinmoy runs a 5-mile race in a time of 41 min. and 55 sec. in Tobago, West Indies.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy runs and walks a 7-mile New Year’s Day Run in a time of 2 hr., 1 min. and 5 sec. in Fukuyama, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Helena Keith from Radio RRI in Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Cardinal Jaime L. Sin at the Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, Our Lady of EDSA (Epifanio de Los Santos) in Quezon City, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Beth Romulo, author and wife of the late General Carlos Romulo, former Foreign Minister of the Philippines, at the Manilla Hotel in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy draws Soul-Bird artworks representing his father and mother as well as his sisters and brothers, in Nadi Fiji. Each artwork is composed of thousands of little ‘birds’. The number of little birds in his mother’s drawing, is found to be exactly 3,127 — Sri Chinmoy was born in 1931 on August 27th.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Magamba Hall in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Sri Chinmoy composes a New Year’s Day Prayer in Takamatsu, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy composes 10 prayer-poems in Curitiba, Brazil, later published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 102 monks and orphans from the Ponnakkettaram Pagoda, at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy meditates on New Year’s Day in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also offers thirteen prayer-poems.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers reflections on the other world, ‘The door between the two worlds’ and ‘As soon as you give up this body’ in talks with his disciples during a visit to Kuantan in Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy receives two new Russian awards while in Varna, Bulgaria: the Order of Peter the Great of the First Degree from Russia’s National Committee of Public Awards and the Medallion of Frantz Lafort ‘To the Glory of Russia’ from the City of Moscow; and an honorary professorship and an honorary membership of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, at the Kempinsky Hotel Grand Hermitage in Varna, Bulgaria.