April

Sri Chinmoy is invited to speak at the Gandhi Centenary at the University of West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The talk, entitled ‘Mahatma Gandhi’, is subsequently printed in Mother India’s Lighthouse.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Does Meditation Really Accomplish Anything?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Faith, Love, Devotion and Surrender’, at New York State University in Oswego, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Appreciation, Admiration, Adoration and Love’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Contemplation’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (afternoon) at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a morning lecture, entitled ‘My Success-Life and My Progress-Life’, at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers an evening lecture, entitled ‘Surrender’, at the Kurhalle Oberlaa in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy completes 2 million Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 27 Jharna-Kala paintings in 27 minutes in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Success and Progress’, at New York State University in Cortland, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Human Life and Our Divine Life’, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Shall I Make of Myself?’, at New York State University in Binghamton, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a piano performance at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Gajanan Wakankar, Consul General of India to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the World Choir Concert and met American poet Maya Angelou in Atlanta, GA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Poet and Poetry’, and receives the Light of Asia Award at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. Listen to Poet and Poetry recording…

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the opening of a week-long Soul-Bird drawings exhibition held at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts James Nachtwey, award-winning photojournalist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture on the great American poet ‘Robert Frost’, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens in Greenwich Village in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s World and Man’s World’, at New York State University in Purchase, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’s Peace’, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance and a lecture, entitled ‘Happiness’, at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for the 20th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations – UN, NY.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Hans Janitschek, President, UN Society of Writers – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jackson Heights, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a vertical step-up onto a 30-inch platform in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article…

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Japan Award.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Experience of Peace’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s Will and My Will’, at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance at Prospect Heights High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Passport’, at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Gerd Binnig, 1986 Nobel Laureate for Physics, in Heidelberg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Aleksandr Gorelik, Deputy Chief, International Organisations Department, Russian Foreign Ministry, and Ambassador to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Martin Luther King Program, UN Society of Writers at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a vertical jump onto a 30-inch platform in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article…

India’s largest city, Bombay (Mumbai), is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Marin Alsop, Leonard Bernstein’s protégé and first woman conductor of a major US orchestra; and her father Lamar Alsop, previous Concertmaster for the NYC Ballet Orchestra – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts film star Jeff Goldblum and artist Peter Max in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘No Nation is Unwanted’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Interfaith Observance for the World Day of Prayer at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at the Interfaith Observance for the World Day of Prayer at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Time Changes’, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverdale Junior High School in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Bolivia Award.

Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj and answers questions on WOR-TV’s ‘Straight Talk’ in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Have Offered, I Have Received’, at the International Fair of Religions and Philosophies in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Liberation’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Sweden Award.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at The New School for Social Research in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Music and Religion’, at Mount Holyoke College in South Radley, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Malaysia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an extemporaneous talk, entitled ‘Man and God’ – the first in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at his home in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Freedom’, at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT, USA.

Thirty-six new books by Sri Chinmoy are published in 2½ weeks in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy appears live to answer listener’s questions on the Steve Powers Show on WMCA-Radio, in New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in West Village, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Shall Go On Loving God’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

‘The First Estate’ interview with Sri Chinmoy airs on WNBC-TV in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Where is Peace?’, at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy appears on the TV programme ‘Newsline’ in Westchester, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at York College in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his mother Yogamaya’s birth centenary, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Julia Richman High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a ‘Eulogy for Jesse Owens’ in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meets with Dr. Karan Singh, three-time Indian Cabinet Minister and son of the last Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts his own body weight of 150 lbs. 150 times overhead in 11 min. 13 sec., at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Present at the event is Wayne DeMilia, Vice-President of the International Federation of Bodybuilders, who certifies the lifts.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Stanley Kalpage, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the UN; and Kriesnedath Nandoe, Ambassador of Suriname to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Bangladesh is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sierra Leone is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Earthbound Time and Timeless Time’, at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 103¾ pounds overhead from the ground using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to the birth centenary of his mother Yogamaya Ghose, at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a vertical jump onto a 31-inch platform in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people including Scotland’s Don Ritchie, 100-km and 100-mile outdoor track world-record holder, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of America and Heart of Germany Awards.

Sri Chinmoy twice lifts the equivalent of his own 160-pound body weight, 100 times with one arm, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. In the first session, he alternates between his left and right arm to accomplish the feat in 1 minute, 34 seconds. On his second attempt, he completes the lifts in a record time of 1 minute, 17 seconds, using only his left arm.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 46 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, hosted by UN Under-Secretary-General Anwarul Chowdhury, is opened at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Experience of Light’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy paints 11 large paintings, dedicated to the ‘Soul of America’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a 7-hour meditation — starting at 6:00 a.m. — at Mt. Neboh Congregation in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 29 miles in a 12-hour walk at Jamaica High School Track and around school block in Jamaica, New York. NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano and organ performance at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Cente, New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York, NY, USA.

India is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Azerbaijan Award.

Egypt is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and reads his poetry at a reception hosted by the Indian Consulate in New York, NY, USA. A selection of his Jharna-Kala artworks is also exhibited. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy presents one of his paintings to the Consul General of India, Shashi Tripathi, and also one to the Indian Consulate.

Sri Chinmoy opens the World Harmony Run in  Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, near the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, as part of a special programme for those born in 1931, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a hot-air balloon in Hampton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and exhibits 11 of his Jharna-Kala 4’ x 8’ canvases dedicated to the ‘Soul of America’ at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy sings 100 new Bengali songs – later published as Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance part 1 and part 2 — at his Jharna-Kala Gallery, 200 Mercer Street in lower Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The gallery displays some 12,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings, which he had created in the previous sixteen months.

Australia and Belize are declared as Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Barbados is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Eritrea, Heart of Estonia and Heart of South Africa Awards.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Olympians including Bob Beamon, 1988 gold medallist in the long jump; Ottis Davis, 1960 gold medallist in 400m and 4 x 400m relay; Diane Dixon, 1984 gold medallist in 400m, 1988 silver medallist in 4 x 400m; Lindy Remigino, 1952 gold medallist in 100m and 4 x 100m; and Jose Torres, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ustad Sultan Khan, sarangi player, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy arrives at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York at 3:30 p.m. on Air India flight 101A from Madras, where he is met by his sponsor, Sam Spanier, Sam’s friend Eric Hughes, and Sri Chinmoy’s co-sponsor Ann Harrison. He stays as the guest of ‘Samie’ and Eric at their Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on ‘The Quintessence of Hinduism’ to the Adult Class of Comparative Religion, Temple Beth-El, Laurelton, New York, a liberal Jewish congregation, at the invitation of Rabbi Ronald Millstein. This date marks the completion of Sri Chinmoy’s first two years in the United States.

The first official April 13th celebration of Sri Chinmoy’s arrival in the West is held by the AUM Centre in New York, NY, USA. The occasion marks his third anniversary in America.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the tenth anniversary of his arrival in the West by cooking 10 separate dishes for 400 of his students in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers his first concert at Carnegie Hall entitled Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. This is Sri Chinmoy’s first public performance of the esraj and the cello. His Jharna-Kala artworks are also exhibited – New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 10 km (6.2 miles) in a time of 1:07:57 (10:57/mile pace) in the New York Walkers Day Walk in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for his 27 years in the West, at Silver Cup Studios, in Long Island City, NY, USA.

An exhibition of 32,000 Soul-Bird drawings opens at Kennedy International Airport in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Science from St. Mark’s Major Seminary and College in Minnesota, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev and Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (7th meeting) at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, NY, USA.

Bulgaria, Estonia and Sweden are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Italy Award.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 30 instruments, in Queens College Auditorium in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 38 instruments for 38 years in the West, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including actress Judith Light; Mr. America and Mr. Olympia Chris Dickerson, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a stone fountain with 50 roses, dedicated to all 50 States of America, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How to please God’, at Bridgeport University in Bridgeport, CT, USA.

At the invitation of Secretary-General U Thant, Sri Chinmoy begins conducting twice-weekly meditations for staff, delegates and NGO representatives at United Nations headquarters in New York. As director of the ‘United Nations Meditation Group’, which later becomes known as ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’, Sri Chinmoy serves the spiritual aspirations of the United Nations for over 37 years.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala artworks at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously composes and sings 100 songs from poems in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames for the birth centenary of his father Shashi Kumar Ghose, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives an honorary doctorate in Philosophy and Literature from the Institute of Slavonic Culture in Moscow, Russia.

The New York borough of Brooklyn is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 39 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Bob Mathias, 2-time Olympic gold medallist in the decathlon (1948 & 1952), at JFK International Airport, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Within us is our goal’ – the second in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at 350 East 54th St., New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The song of ego’, at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy appears in The New York Times.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Niagara Falls is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Canada. Read article…

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets for the fourth time with President Mikhail Gorbachev and Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 38 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 115 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Conscious oneness with God’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Earth versus Heaven’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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Chinmoy is named ‘Messenger of the Millennium’ by the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY, USA, where he is invited to perform a concert and give a talk on the New Millennium, entitled ‘The New Millennium And World Peace’. Sri Chinmoy is also made an honorary member of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honour Society for Theology.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 38 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Belarus Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ossie Davis and his wife Ruby Dee, actors and civil rights activists; Walt Clyde Frazier, member of NBA Basketball Hall of Fame, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Practical Reality’, at 2 p.m. at The Center for Religion and Life, Nevada University in Reno, NV, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Who is My Friend on Earth?’, at the State University of New York in Old Westbury, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Julia Richman High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Swami Satchidananda, founder of the worldwide Integral Yoga Institute, at the 87-year-old yoga teacher’s institute in New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Experience of Bliss’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Seeker’, at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Soviet Ambassador to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for the 30th Anniversary of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations – UN, NY.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Jane Goodall CBE, British primatologist and 2002 UN Messenger of Peace, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Michael Hebranko, who lost 700 lbs. in 19 months, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret of Inner Peace’, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What has life taught me?’, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel, Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Seal of the City of Berkeley from Mayor Warren Widener in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plays four tennis pros; he wins 48 of 101 games in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’s Heart-Songs’, at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Paul Revere Patriot Award from the State of Massachusetts at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s Most Treasured Gift’, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Way to Abiding Peace’, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the State Capitol Building in Stamford, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Life’, at New York State University in New Paltz, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his first 12-hour walk, for a total distance of 45¼ miles, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Truth’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Paula Radcliffe, marathon world record holder; and her husband, 1500m runner Gary Lough, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Quintessence of Mysticism’, at the American University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture (9 a.m.), entitled ‘Why?’, at New York State University in Geneseo, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (3 p.m.), entitled ‘Today is a Good and Special Day’, at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Three Friends: Inspiration, Aspiration and Realisation’, at SUNY at Brockport, Brockport, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sound and Silence’, at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Contemplation in Action’, at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Bill Rodgers, champion marathon runner, in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Community Church of New York in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a piano concert, performing on 27 pianos for 27 years in the West, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs a standing vertical jump of 32 inches, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Church of St. Ann and The Holy Trinity, in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Venezuela Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including Dr. Davidson L. Hepburn, former Bahamian Ambassador to the United Nations for 10 years, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Our Peace is Within’ – the third in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at his home in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Action and Liberation’, at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Transformation, Liberation, Revelation, Manifestation’, at 10 a.m. at Portland State University in Portland, OR, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Just for Today’, at 4 p.m. in Hughes Auditorium, Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Existence of God’, at 7:30 p.m. in the Administration Building at North Idaho Junior College in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Special Beauty’, at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Delay Not’, at New York State University in Fredonia, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Baron Rüdiger von Wechmar, President of the United Nations General Assembly (1980-81); and American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Supreme Secret of Meditation’, at Maryland University in College Park, MD, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds his first public meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Arise! Awake!’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Beauty’, at 9:30 a.m. in the Montana Rooms of the Student Center, at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality’, at 9 p.m. in the Physics Building, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration’, at 10:30 p.m. at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, MT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘With Knowledge How Far?’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture (11 a.m.), entitled ‘The Spiritual Life’, at St. Bonaventure University in Olean, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (3 p.m.), entitled ‘Do I Believe in Miracles?’, at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Mauritius Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Susan Sarandon, Academy Award-winning actress, social and political activist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Immortality’, at the University of Maine in Orono, ME, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Intuition’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Has Life Taught Me?’, at 10 a.m. the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Humanity’s Teachers’, at 4 p.m. at the University of Arizona in Tempe, AZ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Realisation’, at 9 p.m. at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA.

A bridge connecting Central Falls and Cumberland in Rhode Island, USA, is dedicated as the first ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom’ in the world. Two measured one-mile courses are also dedicated.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and piano performance, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to UN Secretary-General U Thant, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Experience of Power’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

“I treasure the feeling of inner joy which I experienced during my visit with you. The peace and happiness that our meeting provided me with will be remembered forever…. Please accept, Guru, the expression of my most soulful gratitude for your divine light, love and concern.”

— Juan Albors, Secretary of State of Puerto Rico (1972-1976)

Sri Chinmoy meets with Juan Albors, Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, at 224 Mercer St. in New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Music’, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a standing vertical jump of 33 inches, at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy leads a silent prayer at the ‘Interfaith Service of Commitment to the Work of the United Nations’, honouring UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 members of ‘The International Center For Peace, Assisi, Italy’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the performance of his play The Sacred Fire at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Belgium and Nauru are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Precious McKenzie, champion weightlifter in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Sid Caesar, comedian; Red Buttons, comedian and Academy Award winner; Nanette Fabray, comedienne; and Neil Simon, playwright, in Beverly Hills, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Listen to the concert...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration: The Inner Flame’, at Purdue University in Lafayette, IN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Contemplation In The Hindu Tradition’, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run begins at Battery Park in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Carly Simon, American singer/songwriter, Academy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award winner, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The State of Florida is proclaimed a ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace State’ by Governor Lawton Chiles in Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 230 lbs. with both arms simultaneously, for a total of 460 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Ireland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 44 ambassadors, diplomats and Canadian government officials, including Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada, in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Reality’, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes 360 poems in 24 hours, which are published the very next day as The Goal Is Won, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy paints ‘Supreme, I Bow To Thee’, a 9’ x 16’ canvas, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with American artist Peter Max at the Jharna-Kala Art Gallery in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’s Conversation With His Inner Pilot’, at St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the State University of New York in New Paltz, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Who is fit for Yoga?’ – the fourth in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at his home in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with French savant Paul Richard in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Paul Richard was a barrister, a candidate in the French Legislative Assembly elections, a philosophical anthropologist, a supporter of Indian independence, and friend to Sri Aurobindo. He was also the second husband of Mme. Mira Alfassa (Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram).

The Goal Is Won, a poetry book containing 360 of Sri Chinmoy’s poems, all written the previous day, is published by his students in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy paints ‘Larger than the Largest’, a 12-by-27-foot canvas, in the Jharna-Kala Gallery at 224 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings is opened at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Artists’ Association in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs a special duet with cellist Scott Terzaghi in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Flautist Paul Horn performs at a private concert for Sri Chinmoy in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Intellectual versus Spiritual’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy paints ‘C.K.G. Transcends’, a 13x69-foot canvas, in the boiler room of John F. Kennedy High Scool in the Bronx, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy begins painting at 7:46 a.m. and just 2 hours and 29 minutes later, he completes the monumental artwork.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Progress-Story’, at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 4,000 crunch sit-ups, and 100 step-ups of 7½ inches wearing a 50-lb. vest, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 250 lbs. with both arms simultaneously for a total of 500 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Poland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts several athletes, including Martin Strel, the long-distance swimmer who swam the lengths of the Danube, Mississippi, Yangtze and Amazon Rivers; and Tomaž Humar, winner of mountaineering’s prestigious Piolet d’Or award, and famous for his Himalayan solo climbs, at Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for flautist Paul Horn, who was lifted earlier the same day in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. The recording of the concert is later released on a CD, entitled ‘My Heart-Offering’. Listen to the concert...

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Vidar Vambheim, Co-ordinator of Peace Studies at the University of Tromso, in Oslo, Norway.