Sri Chinmoy wins first place in a poetry contest in Jean’s Journal for his poem ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’.
Some of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms are placed inside fortune cookies, which he hands out to his disciples. He then asks them to read out the meditation in their cookie, and proceeds to elaborate on each one. These aphorisms (1-74) given to the New York Centre on 1 September 1974, as well as aphorisms (75-168) given to the Manhattan Centre on 14 September 1974 are later published in his book, Fortune-Philosophy
A Jharna-Kala gallery, displaying Sri Chinmoy’s paintings, opens at 133 West 24th Street in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The exhibition will be open seven days a week throughout the month of September.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (4) at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Saoul Mamby, 1980-82 World Welterweight Boxing Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Richard Schneider, Chancellor of the World Peace University, Oregon, and the founding Chairman of Radio for Peace International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (372) – the 34th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An article about Sri Chinmoy appears the German newspaper Der Standard with the headline ‘Exercising at an advanced age’. Sri Chinmoy is 69 years-old and still lifting enormous weights.
Sri Chinmoy holds a programme honouring Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Colombia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy reaches the halfway point (poem no. 38,500) of his epic poetry series, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees. The poem appears in volume 39.