Sri Chinmoy delivers his third lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Inner Revelation-Fire’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges – Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy directs the publication of 51 new books within a 15-day period (1-15 November). The headquarters for the massive undertaking is Sri Chinmoy’s home in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA, where teams of his students work around the clock on the project.
A Jharna-Kala parade to celebrate Sri Chinmoy completing 100,000 paintings is held on Madison Ave. in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy and the U.N. Meditation Group observe the 20th anniversary of the opening of the U.N. Meditation Room, located in the General Assembly Lobby at the United Nations in New York. The programme opens with a short meditation in the ‘Room of Quiet’ and continues in Conference Room 4, with a special performance of six new songs written for the occasion by Sri Chinmoy, five of which are words of the four Secretaries-General set to music.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for the half-marathon, 13.1 miles, in a time of 1:55:24 in the Sri Chinmoy Half-Marathon at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (138) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
The Severn-Wye Bridge, uniting England and Wales, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Bridge in Aust, Southern Gloucestershire, England, UK.
President-elect Bill Clinton shakes hands with Sri Chinmoy during a meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. He thanks Sri Chinmoy for the gift of a song he had composed about him. The previous day, 14 November, Sri Chinmoy’s students sang the song as the President-elect was leaving the Governor’s Mansion for his morning jog.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (439) — the 39th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Public School 117 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts his own bodyweight of 145 lbs. with both arms simultaneously in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island at Beekman Towers Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Jesse Owens Humanitarian Award from the Jesse Owens Foundation, presented by the family of the legendary Olympic Track and Field gold medallist at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Yasser Seirawan, 1979 International Chess Grandmaster, and four-time US Chess Champion; and Narada Michael Walden, two-time Grammy Award winner and 1998 Best Producer of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.