Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Transcendental Height and Aspiration-Light’, at the University of Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland.
Sri Chinmoy holds a 14-hour outdoor meditation at the Connecticut Centre in Norwalk, CT, USA, for his disciples who had been with him for at least four years.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear and Courage’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy is named Chaplain to the 1980 Winter Olympics, to be held at Lake Placid, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Olympic running legend Emil Zatopek and his wife Dana at Zurich Airport and then later that day he introduced him to the crowd at the Westathletic-Cup, a multinational track-and-field event held near Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy performs a standing calf raise with a weight of 1,000 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets and meditates with singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie, son of the legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy begins writing Sail My Heartbeat Sail poetry series in Jamaica, NY, USA.
The Solomon Islands is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Mexico Award.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a piano performance at the Oslo Spectrum in Oslo, Norway.
Sri Chinmoy plays 51 of his own melodies on the sitar at his first full sitar concert, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. The recording is later released on CD as ‘Impossibility Surrenders’.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, 5-time Mr. Universe and ‘World’s Best-Built Man of the Century’, in San Diego, CA, USA. Sri Chinmoy also lifts the bodybuilding champion and his wife Bhavatarini Judy Pearl and presents them with a signed original Soul-Bird drawing.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (afternoon) at San Diego Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at San Diego Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, CA, USA.