Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Individuality and personality’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at All Angels' Church in New York City, NY, USA, for absolute beginners. At 1 p.m., Sri Chinmoy conducts another meditation, this one, for highly advanced seekers.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Vasant Rai when the world-acclaimed virtuoso sarod player gives a special concert for the spiritual teacher and his students in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (43) at Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including Karen Kain, principal ballerina for the National Ballet of Canada; Roshi Phillip Kapleau, renowned North American Buddhist leader and author; Barbara McLeod, ultra-distance runner; Egerton Marcus, 1988 Olympic silver medallist in middleweight boxing; and Alan Redway, Federal Member of Parliament, at Vishnu Mandir in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pushkar Johari, Indian Ambassador to Sweden, at the Indian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sri Chinmoy offers a poetry reading and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Poetry and Prose’, at Musikaliska Akademien (Stockholm Academy of Music) in Stockholm, Sweden. A recording is released later in 1990 on CD as, ‘Dream-Plants and Reality-Trees: The Stockholm Poetry Reading’. Listen to the recording…
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Mikhail Gorbachev for the sixth time and offers the President the U Thant Peace Award. The President and Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva together hold the Peace Torch, at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy has a book signing at Borders Books & Music in Westbury, Long Island, New York, NY, USA. While there, he also gives a short reading and esraj recital.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (547) in honour of Nelson Mandela, attended by Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates before the start of an 18-kilometre race through the centre of Skopje, Macedonia organised by his students. Beginning and finishing in Macedonia Square, where Mother Teresa’s house used to be, the event commemorates the 18 years she lived there. At the start of the event, the President of the Macedonian Olympic Committee, Vasil Tupurkovski, presents Sri Chinmoy with ‘The Spirit of the Ancient Olympic Games Award’.