Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘How Secure are We?’, part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture Series, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 13 miles in 2:01:30 (9:20 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon (completing the first 13 miles) in Plainsboro, NJ, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (279) at the University of Illinois to an audience of almost 7,000 people in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for Mother Teresa, who passed away on 5 September 1997 aged 87 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, at his meditation garden, Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also composes the song, ‘Mother Teresa, Calcutta’s Soaring Bird’. Read Sri Chinmoy’s tribute from 5 September 1997.
Finland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the Opening of the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the American philanthropist Ray Chambers, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.