Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Truth’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy runs the Champlain Valley Marathon in a time of 4:41:16 in Plattsburgh, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at Place Bonaventure in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy and President Gorbachev meet for the third time. Their meeting is held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, NY, USA. President Gorbachev is accompanied by his wife Raisa Maximovna and their daughter Irina Virganskaya.
Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva and her daughter Irina visit an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 52 Vanderbilt Ave. in Manhattan, New York. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the exhibition to the first lady of Russia and offers her one of his works of art for her private collection.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (404) — the 4th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Le Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (499) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 30th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy pays a visit to the apartment at 4826 New Utrecht Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, where he lived from August 1965 to April 1966. Sri Chinmoy published his first AUM magazine and gave some of his earliest lectures here.
Sri Chinmoy lifts United Nations Ambassadors, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts philanthropists Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and his wife Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA. They offer their goodwill to another of Sri Chinmoy’s inspired events, the World Harmony Run, by holding one of the torches that runners carry around the world.