Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘India’s Soul-Offering’, – the first in the Upanishad series – at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Radio WNYC and gives his first radio esraj concert in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a short talk, entitled ‘The Third Eye’, at All Angels Church, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the New York Road Runners Club reception for Olympic and world-class runners; and receives the New York City Marathon Medal from Fred Lebow, President and Marathon Race Director of the New York Road Runners Club at the United Nations in New York. At the reception, Sri Chinmoy honours marathon runner Miki Gorman. The next day she is the first-placed woman in the NYC Marathon for the second year in a row.
Sri Chinmoy composes one of his famous running songs, ‘O Marathon Runner’.
Sri Chinmoy begins his poetry series Ten Thousand Flower-Flames on a Pan Am flight en route to Japan from New York, NY. USA. He competes the first 70 poems during the flight.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico, at the Governor’s mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Swami Bua-ji, the 109-year-old President of the Indo-American Society, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Magician Ricky Jay as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. As a gift to Sri Chinmoy, he presents him with a copy of his latest book, Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ron Rebhuhn, long-time USTA Eastern tournament director, tennis coach, and USPTA Master Professional; and Bholanath Clyde Weinmann, his first disciple in the West, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.