Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Intellectual versus Spiritual’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy honours United Nations staff members as guests of honour at a reception and banquet at his Jharna-Kala Gallery in Greenwich Village, New York City, NY, USA. Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy explores a new artistic medium: cake-icing. He decorates four large cakes with icing of several colours, dabbing with his fingers to create his signature C.K.G. birds and designs.
Sri Chinmoy paints ‘C.K.G. Transcends’, a 13x69-foot canvas, in the boiler room of John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy begins painting at 7:46 a.m. and just 2 hours and 29 minutes later, he completes the monumental artwork.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Progress-Story’, at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 4,000 crunch sit-ups, and 100 step-ups of 7½ inches wearing a 50-lb. vest, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 250 lbs. with both arms simultaneously for a total of 500 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Poland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts several athletes, including Martin Strel, the long-distance swimmer who swam the lengths of the Danube, Mississippi, Yangtze and Amazon Rivers; and Tomaž Humar, winner of mountaineering’s prestigious Piolet d’Or award, and famous for his Himalayan solo climbs, at Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for flautist Paul Horn, who was lifted earlier the same day in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. The recording of the concert is later released on a CD, entitled ‘My Heart-Offering’. Listen to the concert...
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Vidar Vambheim, Co-ordinator of Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø, in Oslo, Norway.