December

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Attachment and detachment’, at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a tribute programme for Eleanor Roosevelt, with guest speaker the grandson Curtis Roosevelt, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sports and Entertainment Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a dumbbell of 73.5 kg (162 lb.), more than his own bodyweight of 70.5 kg (155.4 lb.), using only one arm, for the first time ever on television, in Melbourne, Australia. (The lift was pre-recorded on November 29, by the TV station following an interview on Good Morning Melbourne, but broadcast on The Today Show, on December 1.)

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Karel Kovanda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and New Year’s Concert at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and New Year’s Concert at Norman Thomas High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 14,000,000th Soul-Bird drawing in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 200 Perendale and Perendale-Suffolk Cross lambs (101-300) on his second day of lifting at Waitomo Farm in Taupo, New Zealand. Lifting four or six lambs at a time, the total weight was 13,405 lb. In addition, Sri Chinmoy also lifts three of the sheep farm owners.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 40 people with lifts of over 500 lb. each, at Resort Intime in Sanya, China.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 people at Pangkor Island Beach Resort, on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Divine duty and Supreme reward’, at the University of Glasgow, completing his European Tour, published in My Rose Petals, Part 1, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Western Dynamism and Eastern Spirituality’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Ottawa City Hall in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Jersey Shore Marathon (4:33:44) in Asbury Park, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the US Congress at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sports and Entertainment Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and New Year’s Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta, GA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including Titus Kinimaka, world-class big wave surfer, at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance-Night and Aspiration-Light’, at Conway Hall in London, UK. It was the final lecture in Sri Chinmoy’s first European Lecture Tour.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Crown of India’s Soul’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. This is followed by a public meditation attended by more than 500 seekers.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture and receives a citation from the National Fine Arts Committee, Winter Olympic Games, and an award from Lake Placid School of Art, at the Lake Placid School of Art in Lake Placid, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Jorge Illueca, President of the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister and Vice-President of Panama (1983), in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the War Memorial Theater in Trenton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Perfection-Surprise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 100 three-month-old Romney Cross lambs (301-400) on his third day of lifting at Waitere farm near Whakamaru, New Zealand. In addition, Sri Chinmoy also lifts two of the sheep-farm owners for a total weight of 9,048 lb.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his first lecture at an American university, entitled ‘God’s Dream-Boat and Man’s Life-Boat’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy recites 50 poems from his Ten Thousand Flower-Flames poetry series from memory, one poem from each of the first 50 volumes, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs his heaviest weightlifting workout of 475,600 lb. in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy drew over 21,000 Soul-Birds in 24 hours in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 8 people including Rekha Sharma, India’s first woman to climb India’s highest peak, Nanda Devi, at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 200 three-month-old Suffolk-Romney Cross lambs (401-600) on his fourth day of lifting at Tuaropaki Trust Farm, near Mokai, New Zealand — for a total weight of 18,381 lb.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at Resort Intime in Sanya, China.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kali Amman Temple on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy offers the ‘Lifting Up The World’ medallion (not lifted) to Count Hubertus Faber-Castell, painter and humanitarian, scion of the world-famous Faber-Castell company; and to Yusuf Mecek, Mayor of Belek, at Gloria Verde Resort in Belek, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Artist of the Year Award from the Sunstorm Gallery in Hicksville, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in 5:12:00 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bushnell Memorial Hall in Hartford, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs on 107 instruments during a nine-hour and nineteen-minute concert (including breaks) Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 students and teachers at the Na Kamalei School in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 254 three-month-old pure Romney lambs (601-854) on his fifth day of lifting at Kiwitahi Land Co. Farm, Taupo, New Zealand — for a total weight of 19,640 lb.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Professor Dr. Haryono Suyono, Chairman of the Indonesian Self-Reliance Community Foundation at the Lor In Hotel in Solo, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy is invited for the first time to participate in an interfaith forum, the Fall Semester Lecture Program, held at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center, Long Island, NY. The program features guest speakers from various faiths and traditions. Sri Chinmoy is extremely honoured to be the representative of Hinduism, as his name had been put forward by India’s Consul General in New York, S. K. Roy. The lecture Sri Chinmoy delivers is entitled, ‘Hinduism: The journey of India's soul’.

Sri Chinmoy performs an esraj concert at the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a special programme entitled ‘Performances Unprecedented and Unhorizoned’ in which he paints 7 large Jharna-Kala paintings, and then performs on seven instruments, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. The address is given by C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim.

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

Sri Chinmoy composes his 9,000th Bengali song Tomare Tushite Tomar Lagiya in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 146 three-month-old pure Romney lambs (855-1,000) on his sixth day of lifting at Kiwitahi Land Co. Farm, Taupo, New Zealand — for a total weight of 12,072 lb. The grand total weight for 1,000 lambs was 81,259 lb. (36,936 kg).

An exhibition of 78 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks – begun on 26 November (Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi) and completed on 5 December in honour of Sri Aurobindo’s 78 years on earth – are displayed at Pangkor Island Beach Resort on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for lawyers and judges at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre to an audience of 5,000 at Canada Place, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Pilgrim-Dream-Blossoms (morning) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at St. Paul the Apostle Church (evening) in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s concert at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, The Bahamas, at which he had a reunion with a special friend, H.E. Davidson Hepburn, former Ambassador of The Bahamas to the UN.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii (afternoon) in Honolulu, HI, USA. He also receives the Dreamer of a Peace-Filled World Award on Pearl Harbor Day.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ala Wai Golf Course Club House (evening) in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including Colin Meads, the world’s no. 1 rugby player at the Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy receives His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta at the Lor-in Hotel in Solo, Java, Indonesia. The eighty-one-year-old monarch meets with Sri Chinmoy for the first time. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Brahman of the Upanishads’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ performance at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, the final in a series of 50 concerts dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, introduced by Mr. James Irsay, announcer for WQXR Classical Radio Station of the New York Times, in the Kaplan Penthouse at the Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy produces, publishes and recites from memory, a handwritten aphorism book My Heart’s Thirty-One Sacred Secrets in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s 600th book – a poetry book, entitled I Pray So That — is published in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and a New Year’s meditation at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation, along with a Jharna-Kala exhibit, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for one hour – 9:30-10:30 a.m. – by Mr. Jim Knight and Mr. George Riddell on radio station WHOA in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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

Sri Chinmoy completes 1,000 Jharna-Kala paintings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 5:26:42 in the West for 30 miles in the Jamaica environs, NY, USA. Beginning at 12 midnight, his marathon split time was 4:32:41.

Sri Chinmoy presents Salim A. Salim, President of the 34th UN General Assembly, with the Human Rights Award at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and a New Year’s meditation at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his first 10,000 poems published in his poetry series, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Gupta, Indian Ambassador to Thailand, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Orville Turnquest, Governor-General of the Bahamas, at the Governor’s House in Nassau, Bahamas.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 14,000th song overall (Bengali and English total) Thambona Go at the Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 cows, a total of 24,516 lb. at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Solo at Surakarta Palace in Solo, Java, Indonesia. There, Sri Chinmoy lifts the King as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ award. His Majesty also honours Sri Chinmoy, by bestowing upon him the title of ‘Prince of the Royal Family’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Man and his goal’, at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Norb Sander, winner of the 1974 New York City Marathon and pioneer of sports medicine in America, at the Ten Mile Benefit Run for UNICEF, in New Canaan, CT, USA. The run, sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Centre in honour of UNICEF’s 31st anniversary, was won by Dr. Sander, who is presented with the UNICEF Cup by Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and a New Year’s meditation at the New York Society For Ethical Culture in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including John C. (Jack) Foster, Olympian who held the world record for the master's marathon of 2:20 for 19 years; and Graham Hall, Mayor of Rotorua District Council, at the Rotorua Convention Centre in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Tuanku Ja’afar Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, former King of Malaysia; and his wife, Tuanku Najihah Tuanku Besar Burhanuddin, Sultana of Negeri Sembilan, at the Palace of Negeri Sembilan in Seremban, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the First Award Certificate of Merit from North American Mentor Poetry Magazine, for his Jharna-Kala painting being chosen for the magazine cover.

A ‘Beyond Within’ column begins in the New York Voice newspaper, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy held a New Year’s meditation at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy cooks 13 dishes for disciples to celebrate his 155-lb. ‘Body, Heart and Soul One-Arm Press’ (November 18, 1985) at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Constantin Spiteri, Director of Culture in the Ministry of Education for Malta, at Malta International Airport in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 33 people at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A parade was held for Sri Chinmoy’s 2,039-lb. one-arm lift (November 27, 1986) in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Manmohan Adhikari, Prime Minister of Nepal, at Singha Darbar, Government Seat, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 cows, weighing a total of 43,804 lb., at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 people, including students and teachers from Sawahan 1 Elementary School at the Puri, Kercono Ballroom in Solo, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Xiamen Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.

Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Oneness-Earth’ programme, attended by ambassadors, religious leaders and UN officials at the United Nations in New York. Televised excerpts were broadcast nationwide by CBS-TV on Christmas Day.

A 50th birthday tribute for Sri Chinmoy was read into the Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dan Lurie, famous weightlifter, a three-time winner of Mr. America’s ‘Most Muscular Man’, 1942-1944, and publisher of Muscle Training Illustrated, at Dan Lurie Barbells Company in Springfield Gardens, Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Bhadra Ranchod, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Parliament of South Africa, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Datuk Samy Vellu, a senior member of the Malaysian Cabinet and Minister of Works, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Joaquim Cruz, 1984 800-metre Olympic gold medallist; Clayton Stent, Mayor, Taupo District; and Anna Tyler, World Duathlon gold medallist, and World Triathlon Championship silver medallist, at Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Omer Bilgin, member of Turkish Parliament for over 20 years and Minister of Tourism for Turkey for 10 years, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Antalya Culture Centre in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy produces a handwritten poetry book Four Hundred Gratitude-Flower-Hearts, his 400th published book, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation at the High School of Art and Design in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Never Say No’ in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including media representatives at the YMCA in Hong Kong.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Guido de Marco, Deputy Foreign Minister of Malta, at the Hilton Hotel in St. Julian’s Bay, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bangkok Bank building in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 6,000th Bengali song Gorokshanath Gorokshanath Shakti Tuphan at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Union of Myanmar is officially dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Maj. Gen. Saw Lwin. Sri Chinmoy was guest of honour at the inauguration ceremony held at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Placido D’Souza, High Commissioner of India to Hong Kong, at the YMCA in Hong Kong.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mounir Fahmy and Samir Farid, former Egyptian Air Force Generals, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA, where he also receives the Matsunaga Institute For Peace Award from the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Teatro Joao Caetano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy meets with General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Guest House of the Ministry of Defence in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy individually lifts 30 cows, weighing a total of 22,127 lbs., at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand. The lifting session completes his 3-day project of lifting 100 cows, for an overall total of 90,447 lbs. 

Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s Meditation and Message for the New Year (1972) for the public at Columbia University, New York City. It is attended by over 800 seekers. Sri Chinmoy and Jamaica area disciples travel there on the maiden trip of the new Centre bus ‘Alo Bani’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the spiritual life?’, at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s 300th book Aspiration-Tree is published. It is the first hard-bound book produced by the Sri Chinmoy Centre Press in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, and presents him with 300 of his published books for the NY Public Library City Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura. During this fourth visit to the monument, he is invited to a special Japanese tea ceremony and banquet inside the Kōtoku-in Temple, at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, attended by special guests Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal; B. B. Karki, Speaker of the Nepal Upper House; R. C. Poudel, Speaker of the Nepal House of Representatives; H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal; and P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with the guest of honour General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ performance at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Bronze Medal of New York City from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the NYC Council City Hall, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation and a Jharna-Kala exhibition at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy cooks 1,000 Indian sweets for the New Year’s meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kamakura City Public Hall in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Toshihiko Seko, Japanese marathon champion, at Hotel Sunroute in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert attended by the mother and sister of Paul Ricardo Alfonsin, President of Argentina, at the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including several Thai professors, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Jehan Sadat, widow of President Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt (1970-1981), at the Sadat residence in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Church, the 117th successor to Saint Mark, at the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre event at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet, held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 56 people, including Ann Hare, Olympic middle-distance runner; Toni Jeffs, Olympic freestyle swimmer, 2002 world masters record in 50-metre freestyle; and Tim Prendergast, 2002 gold medallist and world record holder 800m in the IPC Championships for the Visually Impaired, at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and receives the City Award from Guo Zhenjia, Vice Mayor of Xiamen, at the Botanical Gardens in Xiamen, China.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 members of the Mongolian National Circus at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled, ‘Three Secrets: Reincarnation, Evolution and Transformation’ – later published in two parts as Two Secrets: Reincarnation and Evolution and Evolution – to a group of spiritual aspirants at the residence of Mrs. Ida Patterson in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, attended by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., opens at the UN Secretariat Lobby in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hotel Meliá in Torremolinos, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Science Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including The Venerable Pratamkunaporn, Abbot of the Wat Po Temple, at Wat Po Temple in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Ronnie Weerakoon, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Egypt, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Valentina Matvienko, Ambassador of Russia to Malta, at the Russian Embassy in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with and lifts Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Hindu Monastery in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kyoto Terrsa Hall in Kyoto, Japan, attended by Bishop Dwight R. Nakamura, Abbot of Daijuji Temple.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Li Ming Zhu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Red Cross Foundation. He also receives a gift from Guo Zhen Jia, Xiamen Vice Mayor, at the Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously set music to 99 English poems from Transcendence-Perfection in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura on his second visit (the first being in October 1969) at the Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Vinay Verma, Ambassador of India to Thailand, Permanent Representative of India to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for Asia and the Pacific, son of Sri Chinmoy’s English teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at the Ambassador’s residence in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Cairo Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, where he receives the Gold Medallion for International Service to Peace, from Constantin Spiteri, Head of Culture, Ministry of Education. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the concert to President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of Russia to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Bishopscourt official residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Hotel Barceló Del Lago in Panajachel, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Xiamen Middle School Number 5 in Xiamen, China, where he meets with Mr. Xu, Minister of Education for Xiamen. 1,000 school children sang Sri Chinmoy’s composition ‘I Am A Great Chinese Boy, I Am A Good Chinese Girl’.

Sri Chinmoy offers his New Year’s Message for 1974 with an evening programme of meditation and music at Hunter College in New York City, NY, USA, to an audience of 1,500 people. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary marathon coach Kiyoshi Nakamura at Jingu Gaien Park in Tokyo, Japan. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Enrique Tierno Galvan, Mayor of Madrid, at the Mayor’s offices in Madrid, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Aye Aye Myint-u, daughter of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, and her family, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Malietoa Tanumafili II, Head of State of Western Samoa, at the Head of State residence in Apia, Western Samoa.

Langtang II mountain in the Himalayas is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Mountain at an inauguration ceremony in Nagarkot, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sheraton Rio Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 people at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at San Cristobal Fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Residence in Los Pinos in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Antonio Caldera, former President of Venezuela, at President Caldera’s office in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and an organ performance at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former Senator Hiram Fong at the Senator Fong Plantation and Gardens in Kaneohe, Oahu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes 700,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Hotel Kitano Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Royal Nepal Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, attended by Reverend Mitsuo Sato, Head Priest of Kotoku-in Temple, at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio at the Office of the Archbishop, at Cathedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Orchard Parade Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and Bun Rany Hun Sen, First Lady of Cambodia, preceded by a 30-minute private meeting and followed by a live televised ceremony sent to 126 countries, at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a symbolic gesture, the Prime Minister also holds the Peace Torch. 

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Lydia Bradley, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; and Guy Cotter, two-time Mt. Everest climber, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people and is named an Honorary Fellow of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta (Solo), at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago, Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Chira Pongdaiboon, Lord Mayor of Hua Hin, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Alexandria, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Censu Tabone, President of Malta, and Mrs. Tabone, followed by Sri Chinmoy offering a Peace Concert for invited guests, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Edward Fenech-Adami, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mai Ling, Viet Nam’s top female sprinter, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Uma Meshtri, great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at City Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Virak From, Director of International Affairs, Cambodian National Assembly; and Sry Tamarang, International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy composes 20 songs, setting music to the words of the Christ.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with R. Dayakar, Consul General of India in Vietnam, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu, at the Bluestar Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy completes 8,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings at Viva Clarion Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the National Theatre in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Paduka Paku Alam of Yogyakarta at Keraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Faouzi Skali, founder of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music 2001, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy composes 13 songs dedicated to the Christ at Hotel Melia in Torremolinos, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including Luang Por Eed, Abbot of Wat Khao Takiab, in Wat Khao Takiab, Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, at the Ministry of Culture in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the French Cultural Exchange Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, attended by Regional Governor Hasyim Afandi, at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ateneo de Madrid, Salon de Actos, in Madrid, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy gave interviews on Sri Lanka National TV and meets with Bradman Weerakoon, President’s Advisor on International Relations, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Chinmoy completes 21,466 Soul-Bird drawings in one day at Hotel Kitano Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy visits Robben Island in South Africa, where he meditates and offers a soulful prayer in the prison cell President Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years.

Sri Chinmoy visits Renko-ji Temple in Suginami-ku Ward, Tokyo, Japan, where the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, India’s freedom fighter, are kept.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Catedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Sopheap, Chief Monk of Ponna-Kkettaram Pagoda at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts The Most Venerable Tep Vong, Supreme Patriarch of Maha Nikaya Order of Buddhist Monks. Receives the Light of Lord Buddha Award from the Supreme Patriarch Udnalorm Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at Christ’s College Chapel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private organ performance at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Jon Hellerman, world-renowned triathlete coach; and Dr. Roddy Kirkwood, climber of Mt. Everest, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 52 people from the Gadja Mada University Marching Band at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts HRH Daulat Tuanku, Sultan of Pahang State, King of Malaysia, 1979-1984, and Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom at the VIP State House in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes ‘E Jibane Jadi’ at Utano Youth Hostel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Teatro De La Cantv in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Oita Ken Seishonen Kaikan in Beppu, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy receives a message on behalf of all members of the Maltese Parliament, declaring Sri Chinmoy as an ‘International Emissary of Peace’ and ‘Ambassador of Peace for Malta’, presented by the Speaker of the House, Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, at the Peace Run Opening Ceremony in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 46 people including 126-year-old great-great-grandmother Somo Santono, believed to be the world’s oldest living woman, as part of a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Key to the City of San Juan from Mayor Carlos Romero Barceló at City Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Ateneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The first exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in Hollis, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Club de Viña in Viña del Mar, Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people, including Nissim Ezekial, Father of Post-Independence Indian Verse in English, at the Regional Language Centre in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy had a reunion with Lakhan Mehrotra, India’s High Commissioner to the UN and former Consul General of India to New York during Sri Chinmoy’s employment at the Indian Consulate in the mid-1960s, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of the Valletta Museum of Fine Arts as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Museum of Fine Arts, in Valletta, Malta.

A Sri Chinmoy Peace Plane is inaugurated at Luqa International Airport, Luqa, Malta. After the ceremony, Sri Chinmoy takes a 30-minute flight in the plane.

A dedication ceremony of the Mekong Delta as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom was held at the Mekong Delta in Tan An, Long An Province, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Hon. Pule Lameko, Minister of Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs of Western Samoa. Sri Chinmoy also runs 100m and 200m in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Apia Park in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes 800,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Hotel Kitano Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the grave of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 59 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ellis Clark, President of Trinidad and Tobago, at the Presidential Palace in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hotel Suisse in Casablanca, Morocco.

Sri Chinmoy begins his ‘Dream-Freedom-Peace-Birds’ (Soul-Bird drawings) at the Mistra Village Hotel in St. Paul’s Bay, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Honourable Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Western Samoa, at the Office of the Prime Minister in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Venerable Sayadaw Baddanta Thawfita, leader of Buddhists in Myanmar, at the Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit in honour of the Harare diplomatic community, at the Meikles Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Sri Chinmoy completes Aghater Par Aghat Karechhe Dharanir, his 10,000th Bengali song, at the Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a special musical performance at which he lifts 40 people, including 38 monks from Ounalom Pagoda, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Admiralty House in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Sri Chinmoy race-walks a 5-mile race held at Ala Moana Beach Park, in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Teatro de la Cantv in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy composes 50 songs on ‘Forgiveness’ (25 Bengali and English pairs) – later published as Khama Karo ‘Forgive Me’ – on a train ride from Santiago to Valdivia in Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Saloman Ismanto, bodybuilder, 1969 Mr. Asia and 1973 Mr. Malaysia at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to His Majesty Ja’afar Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia, at the Palace of the King, Istana Negara, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 7 people, including Jow Yu Ming, bodybuilding champion, at Hai Tian Hotel in Qingdao, China.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour non-stop performance of 100 new Bengali songs, later published as  Supreme, Teach Me How To Cry, at the United Methodist Church in Port Washington, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in a time of 4:33:43, in Okinawa, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people including Remang Ak Japar, an 86-year-old headhunter and renowned Iban jungle warrior from the Iban tribe in Sarawak, who was awarded the George Cross by Great Britain for his great valour and heroism during WW II, at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a special meditation at the Sacred Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi Tree at Mahamegha Vana Park in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The tree was planted from a cutting of the Bodhi Tree under which Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment at Buddha Gaya in India. It was brought to Sri Lanka by Theri Sangamitta, daughter of Emperor Asoka, and planted in 249 BC by King Devanampiyatissa. It is the oldest surviving historical tree in the world.

Sri Chinmoy completes Sholo Hajar Gan Likhechhi, his 16,000th song, at Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 54 students and teachers from Toul Kork Primary School at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.