Sri Chinmoy sends a taped-recorded message from his home in New York to Sudha (Miss Carmen M. Suro), the President of the Aum Centre Inc., who plays it that evening at the inauguration of their new Centre premises in Calle Mayo, numero 264, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ravi Shankar world-famous sitar player, at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ‘Mahanir’ in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. The two discuss music and spirituality in their native Bengali.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled, ‘The Past, the Present and the Future’, in Room 550 at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director and Lester B. Korn, Ambassador of the United States to the UN, at the UNICEF Plaza in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy presents James P. Grant, Executive Director of UNICEF, with the U Thant Peace Award at an interfaith prayer breakfast at UNICEF House in New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, and his wife, Graça Machel, Mozambique Minister of Education and Global Advocate for Women and Children, at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York, NY, USA.
Luxembourg is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar and offers him the U Thant Peace Award. Sri Chinmoy also lifted Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA. Read more...
Sri Chinmoy lifts the ‘Magpie Twins’ Casey Burns (2003 North American Heavyweight Sumo Champion) and Kelly Gneiting (Three-time U.S. Heavyweight Champion) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s eighth of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mikhail Gorbachev before the inauguration of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Institute of Paediatric Haematology in St. Petersburg in Russia. The former Soviet President had personally invited Sri Chinmoy to the event, calling him both a personal friend and a long-time friend of the Gorbachev Foundation.