Sri Chinmoy and his New York and Connecticut students participate in the first Sri Chinmoy Centre Sports Day held at Alley Pond Park in Queens, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with sculptor Henry Moore, at his home in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, UK.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the inauguration of the US State of Massachusetts joining the worldwide Peace-Blossoms family as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-State, at a special ceremony held at Boston State House in Boston, MA, USA. Governor William F. Weld delivers the proclamation.
As well, letters of congratulations from Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Teresa, Linus Pauling, several US Governors and Congressmen are read out.
Other Sri Chinmoy Peace States include Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia.
Sri Chinmoy, speaking at the inauguration:
“We are all children of peace,” declares Sri Chinmoy. “There is no human being who does not have peace in ample measure in the inmost recesses of his heart. This peace he is going to bring to the fore at God’s choice Hour ... (which is) a fast-approaching, God-ordained reality.”