Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Role of Purity in the Spiritual Life’, at the home of Mrs. Mary Williams, in Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire and Aspiration’, at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy’s achievement of writing 360 poems in one day – The Goal Is Won – is published in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at Friends Meeting House in London, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘No More the Desire-Life’, at Cape Cod Community College in Hyannis, MA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Maritime Hall in Halifax, NA, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a noon lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Hunger’, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome, Italy.

The first ‘Runners Are Smilers’ 2-mile race sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team is held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer session for American hostages held in Beirut at Rayburn House Office Building, House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 12th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 42nd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Parliament Building in Kiev, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates Father’s Day with his spiritual children and composes a song, entitled ‘The Human Father ... The Divine Father’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the 11th annual Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race and recites his first daily prayer, which he continues to do during his visits to the event between June 18th and August 14th 2007, in Jamaica, NY, USA.