Sri Chinmoy is welcomed back to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Ferré where the first Sri Chinmoy spiritual Centre was established in San Juan in 1966.
Sri Chinmoy offers a lecture, entitled ‘The Answer to World-Despair’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy holds a programme in memory of Don Pablo Casals at the United Nations in New York. A song in honour the master cellist’s birth centenary,‘O Pablo Casals’ — composed by Sri Chinmoy on 5 October — is sung by the United Nations Meditation Group singers.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human in Me, the Divine in Me and the Supreme in Me’, St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with ultra-marathon legend Ted Corbitt at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with S.N. Mishra, Foreign Minister of India, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy publicly lifts 106¼ lbs. using only his right arm at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. (Two days earlier, Sri Chinmoy lifted the same weight at his home gym.)
Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert (134) at Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at the Basilica of St. Denis in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the World Citizens Assembly at the Penta Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 pounds, 30 times on his stomach — known as ‘stomach crunches’ — at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA. He describes it as “the most difficult lift”.
Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka offer a private concert for Sri Chinmoy and special guests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read the report from Anahata Nada...
Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden and Sri Chinmoy Street are inaugurated at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Flushing, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy is joined at the ceremony by Jim Gennaro, New York City Councilman; Commissioner Estelle Cooper, Administrator of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Dorothy Lewandowski, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for Queens.
Sri Chinmoy enters Mahasamadhi at his home in Jamaica, Queens, New York. During the coming week, observances are held at Aspiration-Ground — the place where he spent so many hours meditating, performing concerts, teaching songs, painting and drawing, honouring dignitaries, giving talks, weightlifting and playing tennis.