Sri Chinmoy has a second meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, Vatican City.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Death’, at Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. After delivering a lecture, Sri Chinmoy sings Rabindranath Tagore’s 1939 song Samukhe Shanti Parabar — ‘The Ocean of Peace Lies Ahead of Me’.
Sri Chinmoy completes 27,000 Jharna-Kala paintings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy begins cycling again for the first time since he came to the West. He joins his students for one circuit as they ride a course in Central Park, New York, singing his ‘O My America’ song in honour of America’s Bicentennial. Sri Chinmoy’s love of cycling dates back to his childhood in Chittagong, East Bengal, and continued during his time at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, where the bicycle was a common mode of transport. His cycling career begins in earnest in 1977 when he and his students participate in the 24-Hour Pepsi Bicycle Marathon in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs 1500 metres in 6 min. 30 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Community Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘O Senior Olympics, O Senior Olympians’, at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Sri Chinmoy has an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that takes place prior to the opening ceremony of the US National Senior Olympics, in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation and gives a talk during the Opening Ceremonies of the first United States National Senior Olympics, at the First US National Senior Olympics in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Ely Cathedral in Ely, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance and organ recital; and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Oneness-Education’, in the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, UK. Sri Chinmoy also holds a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at which he lifts Professor Brian David Josephson, 1973 Nobel Laureate in Physics and others.
Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital.
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre race in the over-60s category, recording a time of 16.62 seconds, at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at the Australian Institute of Sport Athletics Track in Canberra, Australia. He is also presented with special awards by the Australian Sports Commission and the ACT Cross Country Club.
Sri Chinmoy visits two of the five Canberra Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital signs that are placed at the road entrances to Australia’s capital city. The previous morning, Sri Chinmoy visited three of the signs.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Dr. Frederick Sanger, 1958 and 1980 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and numerous professors, at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. While there, Sri Chinmoy is given the opportunity to visit to Sri Aurobindo’s room, where he stayed as a student almost a century before.