Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Beyond’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk at the beginning of the New Year at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy gives a short inspirational talk about Swami Vivekananda (1) as part of a series of four lectures on world leaders from January-April 1978.
Sri Chinmoy writes 11 more Indian stories (33-40) and (41-43), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 2 and part 3.
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Bradford Morse, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand Somdej Phra Sankharaj — the head of the country’s order of Buddhist monks — in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 9 Buddhist Monks at Wat Mahathat in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Major General Chamlong Srimuang, Governor of Bangkok, at the Municipal Building in Bangkok, Thailand.
Davao International Airport is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport, which Sri Chinmoy attends in Davao City, the Philippines. At the airport, Sri Chinmoy gives a television interview.
A Jharna-Kala exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at the Smith Gallery in London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy composes songs at the Insular Hotel in Davao, the Philippines. Songs from this day, as well as others composed on his visit to the Philippines, are later published in Gahite Chahi Kali Mayer Gan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Teknikon College in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The concert is introduced by Raymond Mhlaba, Premier of Eastern Cape Province and Sri Chinmoy dedicates the concert to President Nelson Mandela.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Unconditional Surrender’, at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Greatness, Goodness and God-Oneness’, at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy tells 5 amusing stories — American cities, The Master’s prediction, My uncle rejects his occult power, Bengal, Indiana and What an occultist can do — at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India, in Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kempinsky Hotel, Grand Hermitage, in Varna, Bulgaria.