Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on WRVR’s ‘Connections’ programme in Connecticut, USA. 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Experience’, in the Commons Room, Graduate School, at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled  ‘The Heart’, in David Rittenhouse Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes 7 more Indian stories (81-87), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Orange Bowl Marathon in a time of 5:33:33, in Miami, FL, USA.

Loro Parque is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Park, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Sri Chinmoy presents the park with a commemorative award bearing his ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings. After the inauguration, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of wide-ranging questions.

The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport is inaugurated at Reina Sofia International Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Hubert Reynolds, Professor of Peace Studies at Silliman University, at the South Seas Resort Hotel in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of Faleolo International Airport as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport in Apia, Western Samoa. Representing the Western Samoa Airport Authority at the ceremony is the airport manager Etuale Sefo.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (402) — the 2nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Maui Lu Hotel in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Asunción, Paraguay. His time is 39:49.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to his students, entitled ‘Only Friend, Best Friends, Fair-weather Friends’, at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy speaks about his days as a champion athlete in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Poficherry, India, during an afternoon function with his students in Xi’an, China.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 orphans from Tengku Ampuan Fatimah Orphanage, at the Awana Kijal Golf Resort in Terengganu, Kuantan, Malaysia.