Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Control: Self-Offering to God’, at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Attachment and Detachment’, at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God’s Power of Love in Today's World’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy writes 150 poems in 24 hours, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘The Role of Humility in the Spiritual Life’,in the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter, in Americus, GA, USA. Sri Chinmoy sings her the song ‘Compassion-Ocean, Mother Lillian’, which he had composed the day before. Later that evening Sri Chinmoy and his students give a public concert in her honour.
Sri Chinmoy launches the Salutation to America 1,300-mile non-stop relay at midnight in Concord, NH, USA. The relay, comprised of 15 runners from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, goes on to carry a flaming torch through each of the 13 original states of the US and completes its journey seven days later in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Independence’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates a memorial arch to former UN Secretary-General U Thant, on U Thant Island – an island in the East River adjacent to the UN, inaugurated on September 16, 1977, by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’ – in New York NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy presents the first U Thant Peace Award to Zenon Rossides, Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 98½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
The City of Ottawa is dedicated as the first Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital at a ceremony attended by Canadian federal and city officials in the World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy begins drawing a series of human faces in Japan. He completed 3,433 drawings.
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo time trial for the 100 metres in a time of 16.30 seconds on the Cricket Club Track in Vienna, Austria.
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes his 1,300th weightlifting prayer, before doing an 800-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Kazakhstan and Namibia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with an organ performance, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 10 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.