Sri Chinmoy receives an honorary proclamation in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at a special ceremony to launch the New York City Marathon at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Amphitheatre in New York, NY, USA. There he meets with ultra-runner Ted Corbitt and presents an award to Fred Lebow, President and Founder of the New York Road Runners Club. As part of the programme, a song composed by Sri Chinmoy entitled ‘Marathon’ is sung by his students.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Emil Zatopek, 1952 triple Olympic gold medallist for 5 km, 10 km and marathon, at the start of the New York City Marathon on Staten Island, NY, USA. Before the race, Sri Chinmoy also met with ultramarathon champion Don Ritchie.
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:48:53 in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a small house and lifts animals on a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and lifted 8 US government employees at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including Charles Smith, 1988 US Olympic bronze medallist in basketball, at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Shigeto Kanayama, Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Hiroshi Nishida, Concertmaster, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds the opening meditation at an interfaith celebration in honour of the United Nation’s 50th anniversary at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes the first 10,000 poems of Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees in 9 months, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 8,000, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 30 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, in honour of Karen Karagezian of the Gorbachev Foundation, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.