Sri Chinmoy is born on Thursday, August 27th 1931 — an hour before sunset — in the small village of East Shakpura, Chittagong, Bengal. He is the youngest of seven children born to mother Yogamaya Ghosh and father Shashi Kumar Ghosh.
The first issue of AUM magazine, “a monthly journal devoted to the spiritual writings of Chinmoy Kumar Ghose,” is published. It is printed by Boro Park Printers on New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Sri Chinmoy composes his most sacred song, the ‘Invocation’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s 40th birthday is celebrated in Jamaica, New York, USA.
The first week-long birthday celebration for Sri Chinmoy is held in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs the first act of his play about Jesus Christ — The Son — playing both the roles of the Supreme and the Christ, at Thomas A. Edison High School, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs on 27 different instruments for the first time, playing all songs from memory, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives his second performance on 27 different instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy plants a Meditation Tree on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Beginning at midnight, a 47-mile run honouring Sri Chinmoy’s 47th birthday was held at Jamaica High School Track and surrounds, in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. In this inaugural race, which continues to be held annually, 58 of Sri Chinmoy’s students take part.
All five boroughs of New York City – Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island – are proclaimed August 27, 1978, as ‘Sri Chinmoy Day’. Queens Councilman Morton Povman personally comes to Jamaica High School Track in Queens to wish Sri Chinmoy happy birthday and present him with the borough’s proclamation.
Sri Chinmoy performs from memory 47 new Bengali songs, Bela Chale Jai, at his evening birthday function at the Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, CT, USA. The book is published the same day in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs his first ultra-marathon — 47 miles in 12:41:48 — in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 47 miles in a time of 11:27:24 (14:37 pace) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs 50 songs to selected poems from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s hand-written book ‘I meditate So that’ is published in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, which includes improvisations on the synthesizer, esraj and sitar – later released on cassette as Joy-Ripples.
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 48 English poems from The Goal Is Won in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 55 English poems from his 700th book My God-Hunger-Dreams; and also performed on 63 instruments at New Rochelle, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 62nd birthday at Aspiration-Ground in New York, NY, USA. And a tennis milestone is achieved — in the one year since his last birthday, Sri Chinmoy played a total of 3100 games of tennis.
Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree of ‘Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations’ from the St. Petersburg State University of Education, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy sang some of his famous Avatar songs at his birthday celebration function at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Watch the video...
Micronesia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy composes and performs 70 new Bengali songs on his 70th Birthday at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York. The songs are later published as The Tears and Smiles of a God-Fragrance-Heart.
Sri Chinmoy receives Heart of Bhutan, Heart of Guyana and Heart of Samoa Awards.
Cameroon, Senegal and Tuvalu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Crystal Apple Award from New York City Council, presented by Councilman Jimmy Gennaro, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs on various instruments at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, singing 206 Bengali songs by heart in two sessions, to an audience of 1,500 at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The same day, his students present him with a 46-foot-long birthday cake containing over 27,000 candles — a Guinness World Record.
The Luminous Life of Sri Chinmoy is the first biography printed by an outside publisher, in Delhi, India.