October 1
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture (10 a.m.) , entitled ‘The Inner Voice’, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Not Power, But Oneness’, at State University of New York (SUNY) in Oswego, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the One Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘Desire-Life and Aspiration-Life’, at San Bernardino State University, in San Bernardino, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘The Heart, the Mind, the Vital and the Body’, at San Diego State University, in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (42) at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (81) at San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, CA, USA. After the concert, bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl introduced a video of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (11) in the Cadet Chapel, US Military Academy, at West Point, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (129) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Mother Teresa at her Missionaries of Charity House adjoining San Gregorio Church, in Rome, Italy. Mother Teresa also holds aloft the Peace Torch, the symbol of hope carried by runners around the world in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
Sri Chinmoy’s interview with The Edge Magazine, entitled ’The Joy of Inner Peace ... with Sri Chinmoy’, is published in Minnesota, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Pir Zia Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts at the Austria Center Vienna, in Vienna, Austria — to an afternoon audience of 4,200 and an evening audience of 4,700.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the M. Cotsubinsky Museum in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA.
About On This Day
January 1st, 2011, saw the launch of a special feature on the front page of Sri Chinmoy Reflections — On This Day — a day-by-day account of Sri Chinmoy’s achievements. The accompanying pages expand the theme further by linking specific dates and events to video, audio and literary resources from this and many other related websites, enabling the reader to explore, in a systematic way, the vast catalogue of information about Sri Chinmoy’s life.
Many years ago at Aspiration-Ground, there was a large blackboard that displayed the scores of tennis matches Sri Chinmoy had played. Each morning, before Sri Chinmoy arrived at the court, the board would be cleaned and the date of the new day would be written in chalk at the top. Then, in yearly order, a list of different activities Sri Chinmoy had accomplished or had participated in would follow. Every day a new list would appear, and very rarely would there be a day without something to report.
Just before starting play of his usual round of morning tennis, Sri Chinmoy could be seen walking slowly across towards the blackboard to carefully study the list, and many times he would comment on what had been written. No doubt it brought back many fond memories for him.
Since his arrival in the West in 1964, many disparate lists have been compiled – running times and athletic highlights; poems written and songs composed; concerts performed and lectures delivered; weights hoisted and people lifted; paintings completed and drawings sketched; meditations, meetings, peace initiatives and prayers – viewed altogether, they represent an impressive chronology of achievement that reads more like the combined biographies of several highly talented people rather than one individual.
It is by the dedicated efforts of many who have meticulously recorded these events, which form the narrative of Sri Chinmoy’s remarkable life, that we are able to look back across the decades to take in this grand overview. We are grateful to all those who have collected and preserved this information over the years.
It is hoped that this section will, in some small way, carry on this inspirational tradition.
— Animesh Harrington
The information in the following pages has been compiled from many sources – Sri Chinmoy Library, Sri Chinmoy Songs, Sri Chinmoy TV and Radio Sri Chinmoy; Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletters, magazines, periodicals1; and informational booklets2; newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV interviews; yearly calendars and index cards; as well as analog and digital recordings.
Bibliography:
1 AUM (monthly magazine)
Jharna-Kala (art quarterly magazine)
Meditation at the United Nations (monthly bulletin)
Anahata Nada (monthly newsletter)
2 A Galaxy of Luminaries, Agni Press, New York, 1978
Sri Chinmoy: The Student of Peace (second edition), Aum Publications, New York
Sri Chinmoy: Emissary of Oneness-Peace
Sri Chinmoy A Global Man of Peace
Sri Chinmoy Dreamer of World Peace, Agni Press, New York, 1998 & 2000
Sri Chinmoy A Oneness-World-Dreamer
Oneness-World Peace-Blossoms, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, 25th Anniversary
500 Compassion-Blessing-Blossoms