Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy completes 200 poems in 22 hours — from 12:01 a.m. to 10:01 p.m. — (published in parts 2, 3, 4 and 5) and then in the next few minutes spontaneously dictates a further 8 poems (published in part 6) as part of his series The Golden Boat, in Jamaica, New York. The 200 poems are printed in four volumes by noon the following day. (Part 1, also containing 50 poems, was written a few days earlier on 29 January.)
Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations sponsors a special programme to pay respects to Nelson Rockefeller who passed away on 26 January. Sri Chinmoy opens the tribute with a short meditation and meets with distinguished speakers John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City and Jacob Javits, Senator from New York.
Sri Chinmoy and the meditation group at the United Nations hold a centennial tribute to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN. The programme also includes the performance by the meditation group singers of two songs dedicated by Sri Chinmoy to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Message of Peace’, at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Yehudi Menuhin: O Soul-Smile Rare’ in preparation for his meeting with the Maestro the next day.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off the coast of Queensland in north-eastern Australia is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Xiao Wu Nan (Woolf Shaw), a Deputy Minister in the Chinese Government and China’s Vice-Chairman for Social, Economic and Cultural Communication. Mr. Shaw presents Sri Chinmoy with two Chinese scroll paintings, at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China.