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Sri Chinmoy reads a selection of his new poems at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Francisco, CA, USA. They are later published in his book, The Dance of Life, part 12.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the United Nations really doing for Humanity?’ in Conference Room 14 at the United Nations, in New York.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the completion of his ‘Thirteen Thousand God’s Dream-Souls’ soul-bird drawings (30 May) with an outdoor exhibition at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, where the complete collection is on display. At the event, Sri Chinmoy also creates commemorative Soul-Bird drawings and performs 13 new Soul-Bird songs for each series of 1,000 drawings.
Sri Chinmoy has his fourth audience with Pope John Paul II, just before his weekly mass for 15,000 people in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Sri Chinmoy requests the Pope to bless the ‘Peace Torch’ and explains to the Holy Father that it will be carried by runners and schoolchildren in 70 countries. The Pope gives his special blessing and then, speaking in Italian, addresses the assembled crowd about the ‘Peace Run’.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the California Senior Masters Games in Sacramento, CA, USA. Sri Chinmoy participates in five events over that weekend — basketball free throw, softball throw, ergometer, 50 meters and 100 meters. Also, during his visit to Sacramento, he is awarded a medal for his service to world peace by the Games organiser, Pam Rhodes.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 34th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts members of a karate school at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy begins playing the sitar in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a lecture, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the invitation of the university's Centre of Public Information, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. Following the lecture, Sri Chinmoy is presented with a Letter of Gratitude by the Chairman of the Board of the Centre of Public Information, Professor V.Y. Paschenko.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, with an organ performance, dedicated to Rasia Maximovna Gorbachev, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Music’ in the Great Concert Hall of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia. Before the lecture, Sri Chinmoy receives the Academy’s Medal of Honour from Professor D.K. Kimarskaya of the History of Music Department.
Sri Chinmoy attends the opening of an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings, hosted by the Indian Ambassador to Russia, in the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre at the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse, approximately 17 inches high and weighing only 59 pounds, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read more ...