Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Success and Failure’ and answers seekers’ questions, in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy joins runners on the completion of a 300-mile relay run through Connecticut that began in Norwalk on 8 June. The event called the ‘Constitution State Relay Run’, honours Sri Chinmoy’s 10 years of dedicated service to the people of Connecticut. In the evening, Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert and meditation at the Greenwich Library.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Philosophy, Religion and Yoga’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. (On 17 July 1982, Sri Chinmoy refers to it as ‘Illumination-Ground’ and later gives it the name Aspiration-Ground’. Except for occasions when he is away from New York, Sri Chinmoy plays tennis here virtually every day for more than twenty years.)
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace Individual and Collective’, at Stuttgart University, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Pravda — the most influential newspaper in the Soviet Union with a circulation of 11 million — at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also lifts the reporter as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. Dr. Felix Kuznetsov of the Gorky Institute, Moscow, and his wife are also present on this occasion.
Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre event at the Metropolitan Athletics Congress (MAC) Masters Meet at St John’s University, Long Island, New York, NY, USA. His electronic time is 16.62 seconds. It is his first sprint race after recovering from injury, with only 2 days of training prior to the event.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and reads his own poetry at the opening of his Jharna-Kala exhibition at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including professors, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 24 instruments, and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Aspiration-Ground: all Peace, all Joy, all Love, all Oneness’, in honour of the 24th anniversary of Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Words, their Melodies’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. He comments on certain songs he wrote in India, in which he set his own words to traditional melodies.
Sri Chinmoy observes the twenty-sixth anniversary of Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. He invites the Aspiration-Ground servers to sing the song he had composed for them many years earlier, entitled ‘Aspiration-Comrade-Souls’, and then to ask him short questions, including how Aspiration-Ground was destined to be.