Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Promise’, at Essex University in Colchester, Essex, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘The Beauty and Duty of India’s Soul’, at New York University, in New York, NY, USA
Sri Chinmoy delivers his fourth lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Rig Veda’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges, Barnard College, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,317¾-lb. lift using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy hosts a Jharna-Kala exhibit reception for diplomats and VIPs of the 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva at the Heritage Building in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the DC Armory to an audience of 10,000 in Washington, DC, USA. The concert is introduced by H.E. Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Ambassador of India to the United States.
Slovakia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 14th year of his weightlifting by offering a Peace Concert, Jharna-Kala exhibition and ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart: The Body’s Fitness-Gong and The Soul’s Fulness-Song’ programme, where he lifts a total weight of 95,290 lbs. with 65 lifts in a single day.
• The morning session is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
• The evening session is held at York College in Jamaica, New York.
Lifts include Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, five-time Mr. Universe, for the 12th time; Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis for the 4th time; Paula Newby-Fraser, eight-time female Ironman Triathlon Champion; and Steve Finley, three-time Golden Gloves Baseball Champion (the final lift of the evening, and last ever of the standing one-arm lifts).
Sri Chinmoy dedicates the physical fitness part of the programme to his elder brother Mantu Ghosh on the occasion of his 71st birthday. Read Sri Chinmoy’s conversation with Mahasamrat Bill Pearl.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates his retelling of 73 ancient Indian stories to his brother Mantu’s 73rd birthday. The stories later are published in several volumes of Life’s bleeding tears and flying smiles.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Anoushka Shankar, sitar player, composer, Grammy Award nominee, the first woman to perform at Ramakrishna Centre in Calcutta, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy cooks prasad in honour of his brother Mantu’s birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Army House Exhibit Space in Skopie, Macedonia.