Sri Chinmoy gives his first public violin recital, during which he played his most sacred song, ‘The Invocation to the Supreme’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs 4 miles from his house to the National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Park in a time of 37:00. He then race walks another 4 miles, posting a personal best in 47:20 (11:50 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Surrender’, at the University of Delaware, in Newark, DE, USA.
Sri Chinmoy places first in the Sri Chinmoy Tennis Tournament for Priests and Rabbis, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy race walks a personal best for 100 metres in 23.09 seconds in Queens, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Uzbekistan television, in Jamaica, NY, USA. For the occasion, he dons traditional Samarkand robes in honour of his great grandfather who came from that city in the former Soviet Union.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (367) — the 29th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (418) — the 18th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy whistles bhajans — short devotional songs he had composed — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
The Republic of Kiribati is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people including two Japanese children as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy finishes setting to music ‘Kshamar Adarshar’, the immortal Bengali story The Ideal of Forgiveness by Sri Aurobindo that Sri Chinmoy rendered into Bengali verse in 1946 at the age of 14. At a total of 200 lines, it is Sri Chinmoy’s longest Bengali song. (He also rendered it into an English iambic pentameter poem of 107 lines in 1956.) – Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ambassadors from the United Nations as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy hosts the diplomats at ‘Pilgrim-Museum’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
The Tenth Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race (June 10–August 10) finishes in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. The overall race winner is Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk from Solingen in Germany in a time of 41 days + 08:16:29; and the first woman is Suprabha Beckjord from Washington, DC USA, in a time of 60 days + 04:35:24.