Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert Muller, Director and Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Co-ordination, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates his book of 401 rhyming poems ‘From the Source to the Source’ to his brother Chitta who inspired him in the poetry-world.
Sri Chinmoy writes 12 more Indian stories (6-17), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 1.
Sri Chinmoy performs 2,230 pushups in 59 minutes, 40 seconds at a function hall in Kyoto, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, near Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Ja’afar Ibni Al Markham — a former Ambassador of Malaysia to Japan — at the Sultan’s Palace in Seremban, Malaysia. (The Sultan had read in the New Straits Times that Sri Chinmoy had lifted Malaysia’s Minister of Works Datuk S. Sarny Vellu and was himself, delighted to be lifted.) Sri Chinmoy also composed a song for the Sultan, entitled ‘Sultan, Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar, Sultan!’, which is performed for him by an international choir of Sri Chinmoy’s students.
Sri Chinmoy participates in a Peace Mile Relay, along with Sri Lanka’s Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport Nanda Mathew, at the Ministry of Sports in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Chinmoy is awarded the Honorary Degree of Visva Sama Duta, meaning ‘Ambassador of Universal Peace’, by the Royal Asgiriya Order of Buddhist Monks in Kandy, Sri Lanka – the first time the award has been presented to a non-Buddhist.
Sri Chinmoy completes Seven Thousand Blue-Gold Birds drawings, at the Hotel Riu Bonanza in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy attends the dedication ceremony of Mactan–Cebu International Airport becoming a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport, in Cebu, the Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy and his students take an ocean boat ride off Suva, in Fiji.
An exhibition of 22,665 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings — 11,666 completed in Myanmar — is held at the Mya Yeik Nyo, Deluxe Hotel, in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Raymond Mhlaba, Premier of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, at the Holiday Inn, Kings Beach, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Sri Chinmoy holds a 7-hour meditation at the Holiday Inn Centro in Cancún, Mexico; and composes his immortal song, ‘My Lord Beloved Supreme with Every Breath of My Heart’. He also composes his song for the New Millennium, entitled ‘Twenty First Century’. Read Sri Chinmoy’s commentaries...
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation for the ‘Victory over Genocide’ celebration, attended by Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Party leaders and President of the Senate, at the Cambodian People’s Party Headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sri Chinmoy visits ‘Wild World’, a native wildlife sanctuary in Palm Cove near Cairns, and holds one of Australia's iconic animals – the koala.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Austerity versus Wisdom’, at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort, in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in Cambridge Central Library, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Sri Chinmoy makes the first of three early-morning short videos of the setting moon and the rising sun near Varna in Bulgaria, during which he chants, prays and sings.