Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes to US President Gerald R. Ford offering his prayers for the quick recovery of the President’s wife Betty Ford. In his reply, the President remarks that his family deeply appreciated Sri Chinmoy’s message of prayerful concern and friendship during the time of his wife’s illness.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, USA.

A photograph of Sri Chinmoy meditating with Muhammad Ali, taken the previous day, appears in the New York Times. Sri Chinmoy speaks about the photograph of Muhammad Ali, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at Bakersfield State University in Bakersfield, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled ‘Indifference’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Aristides Royo Sánchez, President of Panama, and Panama’s Foreign Minister Dr. Jorge Illueca at the Panama State Reception at the United Nations in New York. There, he also meets with Dr. Carlos Ozores Typaldos, Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Alan Hovhaness, American composer, at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an early evening Peace Concert (40) and an evening Peace Concert (41) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Harri Holkeri, Prime Minister of Finland, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (569) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in Vienna, Austria.