Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘Belief and Faith’, at 7 p.m. at Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, AK, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy writes ten poems (366-375) during a car ride from Madras to Pondicherry. He continues to write twenty-five more poems (376-400) on 29 and 30 October at the home of his family in Pondicherry in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (47) at the Beacon Theater in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Addwitiya Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Dan Lurie, President and Founder of the World Bodybuilding Guild; and Wayne Demilia, Vice-President, International Federation of Bodybuilders, Head Judge, Mr. and Mrs. Olympia Competitions Jamaica, NY, USA.

Prince Charles greets the runners of the global Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run — the longest torch relay in history — and holds the Peace Torch while on a visit to Canada with his wife Diana Princess of Wales and their sons William and Harry. 

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for the Gandhi Symposium, hosted by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, at St. Peter’s Church in New York, NY, USA. Attending the symposium, is Dr. L.M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of the Republic of India, at Annam Brahma Restaurant tin Jamaica, NY, USA. The former President also holds the Peace Torch.

Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at a programme on Thomas Jefferson at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA.