September

Sri Chinmoy wins first place in a poetry contest in Jean’s Journal for his poem ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Saoul Mamby, 1980-82 World Welterweight Boxing Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Richard Schneider, Chancellor of the World Peace University, Oregon, and the founding Chairman of Radio for Peace International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert – the 34th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a programme honouring Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy reaches the halfway point of his epic poetry series, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees when volume 39 was published.

Sri Chinmoy completes 100 miles of running in one week in the Jamaica environs, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Dr. Peter Wilenski, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Shibuya-ku Omotesando Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

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

Azerbaijan and Honduras are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Simferopol, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Ramesh Krishnan, India’s no. 1 tennis champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Troy Fidler, Australian Male Triathlete of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Mall Gallery in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy meets Bangladesh’s top-ranked junior tennis player Shovan Jamal at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Monica Seles, World’s no. 1 Women’s Singles Tennis Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Gamle Logen in Oslo, Norway.

Mozambique, Nicaragua and Nigeria are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Keith Jarrett, jazz pianist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 31,000th Jharna-Kala painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 330 lb. with one arm; and during a standing calf-raise workout, lifts a total of 106 ton, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets Mani Shankar Mukherji, Bengali author and journalist, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY, USA.

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

Palau, Haiti and Vanuatu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the ASV Mehrzweckhalle in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 85 pounds overhead from the ground using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and also lifts numerous people, including the Venerable Maha Ghosananda, Supreme Patriarch of the exiled Cambodian Buddhist Order, at the Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hala Sportowa Mera in Warsaw, Poland.

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

Sri Chinmoy has his 17th meeting with President Gorbachev at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter, Irina Virganskaya, is also present.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 88 people at Madal Bal Sewa in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, preceded by lifting 12 people, at Stadthalle in Gersthofen, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Elmer Gale (twice silver medallist, heavyweight division, North American Sumo Championships) and his 8-year-old daughter, Pax Galesantos (North American Judo Champion in her weight class) at Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy completes 33,000 Jharna-Kala paintings (2,000 paintings in 2 days) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs on 31 musical instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.

A reception for Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala exhibition is sponsored by Senator Richard Kraus at Doric Hall, State House, in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Opera House in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Manhattan Center Studios in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kongresszentrum Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities in Peace Studies. He also gives a talk and performs on the esraj at the International University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT, USA.

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

Ukraine’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Alexander Volkov declares Ukraine a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Reinhart Helmke, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive-Director of the UN Office of Project Services (UNOPS); Murari Raj Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations; Dr. Anastase Gasane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations; Abie Grossfield, US Gymnastics Olympian in 1956 and 1960, coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team; Tim Jecko, Captain of the US Swim Team in 1956 Olympics, world-record holder in 3 swimming events; and Gail Marquis, 1976 Olympic silver medallist in women’s basketball, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 people at Hotel Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Philip Glass, composer and Oscar nominee, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre race in a time of 15.57 sec., at the San Juan Masters Track & Field Championships in Parque Central, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest one-person lift by lifting Larry McConneghey, who weighs 735 lb., at Lookout Point in Riverside Park, New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at ABC Haus Am Bahnhof in Cologne, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy paints ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’, a 13’ x 25’ canvas, in 47 minutes, in New York, NY, USA. The painting is later exhibited on a billboard in San Francisco, California, near Fisherman’s Wharf, sponsored by the Eyes and Ears Foundation.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at the Holy Family Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and also lifts Sugar Ray Leonard, 1976 Olympic gold medallist, boxing (light-welterweight); and Daniel Nichols, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Office of Emergency Plans, US Department of State, at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and also receives a Citation of Honour from the Pluralism Project at Harvard University in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at Schützenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Elliot Richardson, US Spokesman at the UN Conference on Law of the Sea, former Cabinet Member under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and presents him with an original Jharna-Kala painting at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Recreation Trail in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, with an 800-metre running race along the trail for his students.

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary composer Leonard Bernstein for the second time, at the maestro’s residence in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD, USA.

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

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Washington State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia, WA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Theatergalerie in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 170 instruments for 7 hours, 40 minutes at the Kursaal Convention Centre in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy completes 44,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (early evening) at Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Palais des Congrès de Montréal to an audience of 6,000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Interfaith NGO Prayer Service for the Opening of UN General Assembly at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to C. Subramaniam, President of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Romania and St. Kitts & Nevis are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people at Schutzenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Museum of East And West in Odesa, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 13 miles in 2:01:30 (9:20 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon (completing the first 13 miles) in Plainsboro, NJ, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Illinois to an audience of almost 7,000 people in Chicago, IL, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the Opening of the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, attended by Ambassador Davidson Hepburn of the Bahamas in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations, New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Stadthalle, Colombi Park, in Freiburg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy meets with world marathon champion Robert de Castella at ‘Deeks Drive’, the famous Stromlo Forest running trail in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,600 lbs. using a standing calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by The New Yorker magazine and Classical Keyboard Instruments, opens at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, at the George and Annette Murphy Recreation Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 members of the Humboldt University Chamber Choir, East Berlin, Germany, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Ganesh Puja held at Public School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jonathan Moore, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Maimarkthalle in Mannheim, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Great Victory Medal from Dr. Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of Russia’s Academy for Military Intelligence and Civil Protection.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a suspended car plus 2 people – total weight of 2,558 lbs. – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 48,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy attends a dedication the ceremony and naming of U Thant Island, on the East River adjacent to the UN New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the UN Prayer Breakfast at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a car for the first time, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ilie Năstase, world champion tennis player, and plays tennis with him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

The Dominican Republic and Yemen are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1650 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Germany.

At a special weightlifting event at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chinmoy lifted: • Bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl; • Canadian strongman Hugo Girard;  • Two stone lion statues and Hugo Girard, a total of 2,828 lbs., using a seated calf raise; • 1,550 of his published works, a total of 1,179 lbs., using a seated calf raise; • A giant pumpkin, a total of 1,123 lbs., using a standing calf raise.

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

Sri Chinmoy performs at the ‘Night of Champions’ and receives an award from Wayne Demilia, President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Professional Division Inc. at the Town Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and delivers a talk about the UN’s second Secretary-General, in the Meditation Room of the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ken Anderson, no. 1 high school basketball player in the US; Mark Jackson, 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year, former all-American basketball player; Shelton Jones, 1987 all-American basketball player; and Ken Smith, no. 1 basketball point guard in the US – in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Peace Osaka Hall in Osaka, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award Winner, stage and television actress, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts three planes at Princeton Airport, NJ, USA.

Using a standing calf raise, one leg at a time, Sri Chinmoy lifts 400 lbs. with each leg, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Ted Corbitt, Olympic Marathoner, father of ultra-distance running in the US, and the first President of the New York Road Runners Club; Shankar Shetty, President of the Indian National Congress of America; and José Torres, Olympic Boxing silver medallist, former Light Heavyweight Champion in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, IL, USA.

Saint Lucia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ustad Kadar Khan, renowned tabla player, and Pandit Jasraj, Indian classical vocalist in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes ‘Give Me No Freedom’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kongresscenter in Dresden, Germany.

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

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 380½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Dominica and Ethiopia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Lensovet House of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ravi Shankar, world-famous sitar player, at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director and Lester B. Korn, Ambassador of the United States to the UN, at the UNICEF Plaza in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director, at UNICEF in New York.

“That is so important. We are with you in upholding peace, which brings solace to many people throughout the world. It doesn’t matter what language they speak. I think peace is one of the things that is going to save the world.” — Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa

Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, and his wife, Graça Machel, Mozambique Minister of Education and Global Advocate for Women and Children at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York, NY, USA.

Luxembourg is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar and offers him the U Thant Peace Award. Sri Chinmoy also lifts Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy lifts the ‘Magpie Twins’ Casey Burns (2003 North American Heavyweight Sumo Champion) and Kelly Gneiting (Three-time U.S. Heavyweight Champion) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy completes 10 stories during a 6-hour period in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the annual award from the World Gratitude Day Foundation at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Inder Kumar Gujral, Prime Minister of India, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Dr. Penny Lee Dean, women’s world-record holder for the English Channel swim, set in 1978 to present; John Howard, 1981 Hawaii Ironman champion, world-champion cyclist, member of 3 US Olympic teams; Stu Mittleman, ultra-distance runner, held 6-day and 1,000-mile world record; Scott Tinley, 1982 and 1985 Hawaii Ironman Champion; Frank Zane, legendary bodybuilder, 3-time Mr. Olympia, at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts W.J.M. Lokubandara, Speaker of Sri Lankan House of Parliament, Minister of Education, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Milkha Singh, The Flying Sikh, who won 77 of the 80 track races he ran, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to H.E. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of Indian Ministry for External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to USSR, USA, Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka, former Consul General of India to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist, NY Metropolitan Opera; Yue Sai Kan, journalist, TV series creator and Emmy Award winner; Dorothy Franco-Reed, 1984 US Olympic Handball Team player, ESPN commentator; and Vinoy Verma, former Indian Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy visits Paramahansa Yogananda’s Ashram in Encinitas, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Charles Osgood, CBS Radio and TV newscaster, winner of 3 Emmy Awards, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania; lifts Alexandr Vondra, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a programme honouring Pope Paul VI’s 80th birthday at the United Nations in New York, which is attended by Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 10 miles in 1:23:47 (8:23 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the V World Masters Games and runs the 100-metre event in 14.48 seconds at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy first lifts an elephant using a modified calf-raise machine at Chinmoy Avenue in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (afternoon) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing, NY, USA.

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

New Zealand is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 19,000 people, his largest ever, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ricky Martin, Latin pop singer (afternoon); lifts Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia (early evening), in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts William Graham, Foreign Minister of Canada, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 31.40 seconds for 200 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall in Nagasaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea, including Andre Phillips, 1988 Olympic gold medallist for the 400 metres hurdles; and Calvin Smith, 1984 Olympic gold medallist for the 4 x 100 metres relay and 1988 Olympic bronze medallist for 100 metres.

Sri Chinmoy sinks 78 baskets out of 100 basketball throws from penalty line in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert in the 65th year of his birth, playing and singing 65 songs, to celebrate his cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The 2½-hour concert was his longest cello performance.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 10,000,000th Soul-Bird drawing, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for athletes of the World Masters Games at the Tapia Theater in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy receives Sudhahota Carl Lewis’ winning shoes from the Olympian’s gold medal long-jump performance at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, commemorating his completion of 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mani Sankar Mukherji, renowned Bengali novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Nehru Centre in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity And Security’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Are One’, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with L. L. Mehrotra, Consul-General of India in California, gives a concert and composes a song in his honour at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA. After the song, Mr. Mehrotra spontaneously offers a most special message.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert De Castella, Olympic marathoner, in NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy first plays the cello in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 72.66 seconds for 400 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Simon Bolivar Medal from the Central American and Caribbean Masters Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy first lifts a sailboat in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Avanti Hall in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Golden Hall, San Diego Civic Center, in San Diego, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Jaya Raj Acharya, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert, playing and singing 13 songs, to celebrate his 13th cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN, NY.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree from the President of Stamford University Bangladesh, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA. A song, composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of the mayor, is performed.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The past has fast faded behind us’, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osaka, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians, including Roger Kingdom, 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medallist in 110 metres hurdles, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of California in Irvine CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Kissinger, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mary Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, at the Bosendorfer Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Jason McManus, Editor-in-Chief of Time magazine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mircea Snegur, President of Moldova, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs 22 songs on the cello for his 22nd cello anniversary, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Phi Zia Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on the morning of his championship fight with Earnie Shavers, at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Departing Friends, Our Lasting Friends and Our Everlasting Friends’, at the University of California in Davis, CA, USA, where he meets with Surjit Singh Barnala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Have Only One Need’, at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Davies Hall in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 503-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, at the Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy resumes serious weightlifting in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, USA.

A photograph of Sri Chinmoy meditating with Muhammad Ali, taken the previous day, appears in the New York Times. Sri Chinmoy spoke about the photograph of Muhammad Ali, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at Bakersfield State University in Bakersfield, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Aristides Royo Sánchez, President of Panama, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Alan Hovhaness, American composer, at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (early evening) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Harri Holkeri, Prime Minister of Finland, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in Vienna, Austria.