Sri Chinmoy offers a concert called, ‘Existence-Consciousness-Bliss’, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy leads the 135-member Sri Chinmoy Centre Cycling Team to victory in the 24-Hour Pepsi Bicycle Marathon (May 28-29) in Central Park, New York, NY, USA. The team, cycling a cumulative 22,530 miles, wins the team prize against a field of 9,000. The team also wins the best cycling uniform category. Sri Chinmoy himself cycles 175 miles in the event.
A ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile’ is inaugurated by the Mayor of Oxford, Bill Fagg, and Sri Chinmoy at Cutteslowe Park, Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Governor-General’s Residence in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Riverdale Dance Theater in the Bronx, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 7,000th Bengali song Kandte Chahi Tomar Lagi Anukkhan in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal record of 103 ‘crunch abdomen-ups’, by pushing up 203 lbs. in a time of 1 min. 3.95 sec. in Jamaica, NY, USA. (While lying on his back, the 203-pound weight is placed on his abdomen. Each time, he lifts up 1⅓ times his own body weight 2 to 3 inches.) In the same session, he achieves a further two PBs: 35 fingertip pushups; and a headstand balance for 4 min. 21.22 sec.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements, ‘He has the Spirit and Strength to Lift’ is published in New York’s Daily News.
Sri Chinmoy receives an award “for important contributions to the organisation of marathons and races in Russia” from the President of the Russian Association of Marathons and Races, in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings at the Museum of Russian Contemporary History in Moscow, Russia, where he performs an esraj concert and also presents one of his original paintings to the Museum.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including cosmonauts Gennady Strekalov, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Viktor Savinykh, Aleksandr Serebrov, Vladimir Solovyov, Valeriy Korzun, Victor Afanasyev and Georgiy Grechko; and test pilot Marina Popovich, at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mazda Palace in Turin, Italy.