Sri Chinmoy inaugurates his new meditation Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yoga and Spirituality’, at the University of Honolulu, in Honolulu, HI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes fifteen poems (306-320) on a plane ride from Calcutta to Hyderabad in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (46) at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special tennis tournament for priests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The winner of the event is Monsignor Thomas Hartman (Father Tom) from Long Island, New York.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Hessischer Rundfunk (National German Radio) in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Astoria, an 850-passenger ship on the Main River, is designated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Ship in Frankfurt, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award together with Coretta Scott King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan banquet commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s 125th birth anniversary held at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first meets Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India, at the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (432) — the 32nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Marina Hotel in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts members of the diplomatic community, including the following Permanent Representatives to the UN: Fátima Veiga, Cape Verde; Crispin Grey-Johnson, The Gambia; Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Guinea; Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Kenya; Cheick Sidi Diarra, Mali; Aminu Bashir Wali, Nigeria; and Boniface Chidyausiku, Zimbabwe, at a programme hosted by Ibrahim Gambari, UN Under-Secretary-General, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Prior to the lifting programme, Sri Chinmoy honoured his guests with a special banquet at Annam Brahma restaurant. After the lifts, the diplomats join Sri Chinmoy at the nearby Pilgrim-Museum.