At the age of 17 years, Sri Chinmoy recounts a significant spiritual experience — My Bird of Consciousness — at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Why is it Easier to Disbelieve than to Believe?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy begins long-distance running at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the City Hall Civic Center in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Meaning of Discipleship Today’, at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA, USA. Listen to the lecture...
Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in a time of 5:18:31, in San Mateo, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening (7:30 p.m.) concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘O My Heart’, in the McMillan Theater at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first performs a standing calf raise with a weight of 400 lbs. at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best time of 4 min. 28.3 sec. for 1 kilometre on an indoor rowing machine at the California Senior Masters Games in Sacramento, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre event in 16.42 seconds at the California State Senior Games at California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy recites from memory the birthdays of 102 important figures, in Sacramento, CA, USA.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s strength lifting achievements, entitled ‘Sri Chinmoy: Age no barrier to fitness’ is published in the Canadian magazine, The Journal of Alternatives Therapies, vol. 2, no. 9.
Guinea-Bissau and Indonesia are declared as Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nations.
Sri Chinmoy is conferred as an Honorary Professor on behalf of the Scientific Board of the Research Institute of Paediatric Hematology in Moscow, Russia, by the institute’s director Professor A.G. Rumyantsev.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon (2:00 p.m.) lecture, entitled ‘Oneness-Heart’, in the Conference Hall of the Russian Paediatric Clinical Hospital, in Moscow, Russia.