Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘The Body’s Reality and the Soul’s Reality’, at Silliman University, Dumaguete, in the Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy completes writing 843 poems in 24 hours — from midnight October 31st to midnight November 1st — at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. The book of these poems, entitled Transcendence-Perfection, is published the next day by Agni Press in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
The open-air billboard exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 13’ x 25’ Jharna-Kala painting ‘Journey’s Battle Victory’, commissioned by The Eyes and Ears Foundation in conjunction with San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, opens at the Embarcadero in San Francisco, CA, USA. Read the report...
Sri Chinmoy writes three poems (461-463) on the flight from Frankfurt to London; and writes another thirty-seven poems (464-500) on the flight from London to New York. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 5.
Sri Chinmoy begins writing rhyming poems, published as Silence Speaks, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The series of poems eventually span nine volumes.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 705¾-lb. lift, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 marathon runners (total weight of 4,328 lbs.); and lifts a steamroller (1,640 lbs.) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Constantine Moushoutas, former Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations; Lamuel Stanislaus, former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations; and Winston Thompson, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (433) — the 33rd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits Christ Church for the second time — meditating there and signing its guest book with a profound message — in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He first visited this historic church in 1976 in conjunction with the Bicentennial ‘Liberty-Torch’ run, and at that time he also signed the guest book.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (467) at CoreStates Spectrum to an audience of 10,500 in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers his blessings to his students at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA, before they run in the New York City Marathon.
Papua New Guinea is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (601) and delivers a lecture in honour of Sri Aurobindo at King’s College, University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England. There, he also receives a Proclamation of Honour. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites nine poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy creates a collection of Soil-Bird drawings between 4am and 4:45 a.m., in room 1428 of the Hilton Hotel in San Diego, CA, USA.