Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Significance of a Flower’, during the inauguration of ‘The Garland of Divinity’s Love’ flower store on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Seeker’s Four Lives’, at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (12:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Confidence’, at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Spirituality as an Art, at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction and Frustration’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Brian Gormley, Dean of New York School of Visual Arts and receives an Award of Appreciation, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Bill Pearl, 5-time Mr. Universe; Al Oerter, 4-time Olympic gold medallist in discus; and Jim Smith, British Weightlifting Registrar, World Masters Weightlifting Champion, at his Body, Heart and Soul One-Arm Lift anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA. After his invited guests — including athletic and weightlifting champions: Sudhahota Carl Lewis and his parents Bill and Evelyn, Bill and Judy Pearl, Terry and Jan Todd, Al and Cathy Oerter, Jim Smith, Cliff and Mrs. Sawyer, Narada Michael and Anukampa Walden and others — have dinner at Annam Brahma restaurant, Sri Chinmoy begins the evening programme at Aspiration-Ground with a meditation and an opening prayer before the assembly of champions. Sudhahota Carl Lewis acts as the Master of Ceremonies for the event.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening (7:00 p.m.) Peace Concert with an organ recital to an audience of 3,000, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
A Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge connecting the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota, USA, is dedicated by the presidents of both city councils.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in the Shinjuku Kuritsu Kumin Citizen’s Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 14th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. He uses a cello as a drum, for the first time, beating it with both hands like an Indian tabla.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 44th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Education-Life’, and is also presented with the Peace Educator Award by Professor Lester Kurtz at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 16th of 48 concerts in his New Millennium Concert series — at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. During the concert, Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to Sudhahota Carl Lewis who joins him on stage as he sings a song in honour of the Olympic champion.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including professors from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Art Museum, in Harkov, Ukraine.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (8 p.m.) at the Riviera Theater in North Tonawanda, Buffalo, NY, USA. The highlight of the concert is Sri Chinmoy’s performance on a 1926 Wurlitzer band organ.
Sri Chinmoy lifts violist Yuri Bashmet and his orchestra, for a total of 22 people, in Jamaica, NY, USA.