July 31
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Patience’, at All Angels’ Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the final of 28 concerts given in July as part of his ‘Everest-Aspiration’ series – at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs 200 metres in 33.6 seconds — his personal best time in America — during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
The Starr-Camargo Bridge linking the USA with Mexico across the Rio Grande, from Rio Grande City in Texas to Camargo, Tamaulipas, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge during the 1991 ‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
Sri Chinmoy observes his astrological birthday with a morning meditation, during which he walks up and down the tennis court very slowly three times, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (364) — the 26th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Founder and President of the Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and also lifts him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – at Aspiration Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He warms up by lifting solid iron plates (including apparatus) weighing 800 lbs.
About On This Day
January 1st, 2011, saw the launch of a special feature on the front page of Sri Chinmoy Reflections — On This Day — a day-by-day account of Sri Chinmoy’s achievements. The accompanying pages expand the theme further by linking specific dates and events to video, audio and literary resources from this and many other related websites, enabling the reader to explore, in a systematic way, the vast catalogue of information about Sri Chinmoy’s life.
Many years ago at Aspiration-Ground, there was a large blackboard that displayed the scores of tennis matches Sri Chinmoy had played. Each morning, before Sri Chinmoy arrived at the court, the board would be cleaned and the date of the new day would be written in chalk at the top. Then, in yearly order, a list of different activities Sri Chinmoy had accomplished or had participated in would follow. Every day a new list would appear, and very rarely would there be a day without something to report.
Just before starting play of his usual round of morning tennis, Sri Chinmoy could be seen walking slowly across towards the blackboard to carefully study the list, and many times he would comment on what had been written. No doubt it brought back many fond memories for him.
Since his arrival in the West in 1964, many disparate lists have been compiled – running times and athletic highlights; poems written and songs composed; concerts performed and lectures delivered; weights hoisted and people lifted; paintings completed and drawings sketched; meditations, meetings, peace initiatives and prayers – viewed altogether, they represent an impressive chronology of achievement that reads more like the combined biographies of several highly talented people rather than one individual.
It is by the dedicated efforts of many who have meticulously recorded these events, which form the narrative of Sri Chinmoy’s remarkable life, that we are able to look back across the decades to take in this grand overview. We are grateful to all those who have collected and preserved this information over the years.
It is hoped that this section will, in some small way, carry on this inspirational tradition.
— Animesh Harrington
The information in the following pages has been compiled from many sources – Sri Chinmoy Library, Sri Chinmoy Songs, Sri Chinmoy TV and Radio Sri Chinmoy; Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletters, magazines, periodicals1; and informational booklets2; newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV interviews; yearly calendars and index cards; as well as analog and digital recordings.
Bibliography:
1 AUM (monthly magazine)
Jharna-Kala (art quarterly magazine)
Meditation at the United Nations (monthly bulletin)
Anahata Nada (monthly newsletter)
2 A Galaxy of Luminaries, Agni Press, New York, 1978
Sri Chinmoy: The Student of Peace (second edition), Aum Publications, New York
Sri Chinmoy: Emissary of Oneness-Peace
Sri Chinmoy A Global Man of Peace
Sri Chinmoy Dreamer of World Peace, Agni Press, New York, 1998 & 2000
Sri Chinmoy A Oneness-World-Dreamer
Oneness-World Peace-Blossoms, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, 25th Anniversary
500 Compassion-Blessing-Blossoms