Two weeks out from the 24-Hour Pepsi Bicycle Marathon in Central Park, New York, Sri Chinmoy and his students are training on the course. A team of 197 riders, including Sri Chinmoy, will represent the Sri Chinmoy Centre Marathon Team in the event.
Sri Chinmoy performs his first double-dumbbell lift – a two-arm lift of 120 lbs. with both arms simultaneously – a total of 240 lbs., in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy visits Agni Press on Parsons Blvd. In Jamaica, New York, where many of his books have been printed. Sanatan Curchack (right) is on hand to show Sri Chinmoy around the premises.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed live on radio WPFA-FM in San Francisco, CA, USA. Listen to Sri Chinmoy’s interview...
Sri Chinmoy reads a selection of his new poems at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Francisco, CA, USA. They are later published in his book, The Dance of Life, part 12.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the United Nations really doing for Humanity?’ in Conference Room 14 at the United Nations, in New York.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the completion of his ‘Thirteen Thousand God’s Dream-Souls’ soul-bird drawings (30 May) with an outdoor exhibition at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, where the complete collection is on display. At the event, Sri Chinmoy also creates commemorative Soul-Bird drawings and performs 13 new Soul-Bird songs for each series of 1,000 drawings.
Sri Chinmoy has his fourth audience with Pope John Paul II, just before his weekly mass for 15,000 people in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Sri Chinmoy requests the Pope to bless the ‘Peace Torch’ and explains to the Holy Father that it will be carried by runners and schoolchildren in 70 countries. The Pope gives his special blessing and then, speaking in Italian, addresses the assembled crowd about the ‘Peace Run’. More: Meetings with Pope John Paul II at Sri Chinmoy.org
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the California Senior Masters Games in Sacramento, CA, USA. Sri Chinmoy participates in five events over that weekend — basketball free throw, softball throw, ergometer, 50 meters and 100 meters. Also, during his visit to Sacramento, he is awarded a medal for his service to world peace by the Games organiser, Pam Rhodes.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 34th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts members of a karate school at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy begins playing the sitar in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a lecture, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the invitation of the university's Centre of Public Information, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. Following the lecture, Sri Chinmoy is presented with a Letter of Gratitude by the Chairman of the Board of the Centre of Public Information, Professor V.Y. Paschenko.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, with an organ performance, dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Music’ in the Great Concert Hall of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia. Before the lecture, Sri Chinmoy receives the Academy’s Medal of Honour from Professor D.K. Kimarskaya of the History of Music Department.
Sri Chinmoy attends the opening of an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings, hosted by the Indian Ambassador to Russia, in the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre at the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse, approximately 17 inches high and weighing only 59 pounds, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read more ...
Sri Chinmoy blesses a tree, which had previously been planted in his honour, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA. He gave it the Sanskrit name Purnaturu, meaning ‘Perfection Tree’.
The Oxford Mail carries a story about the newly inaugurated Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile (29 May 1987) in Cutteslowe Park in Oxford, UK. The article features a photo of Sri Chinmoy starting the two-mile race for schoolchildren that followed the main ceremony.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Suffolk College in Ipswich, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy honours Yiannis Kourus by lifting him after he finished the Sri Chinmoy 1,000-Mile IAU World Championship Race in a new world record time of 10 days 10:30:35 at Flushing Meadows Park in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000 ‘God's Dream-Souls’ for a total of 20,000 soul-bird drawings since he began 5 months earlier, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song, entitled ‘Thirteen Thousand’, for the occasion.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 33rd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The concert is introduced by H.E. Ambassador Ananda Guruge, former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France, Spain, Algeria, Mexico and the United States.
Sri Chinmoy meets Allan Steinfeld at Annam Brahma. Allan Steinfield was president of the New York Road Runners and race director of the New York City Marathon from 1994 to 2005.
Sri Chinmoy competes in three field events — 600-gm javelin (21.35m), 1-kg discus (19.78 m) and the 4-kg shot put (7.70m) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets privately with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, his first concert held in National Government offices, attended by Members of Parliament and diplomats at Confederation Hall, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON, Canada. A message from Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is read out. At the concert, he also recites 20 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including Svetlana Evgenyevna Feofanova, world champion pole-vaulter, at the Moscow Gorky Art Academic Theatre, Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert called ‘Existence-Consciousness-Bliss’, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy leads the 135-member Sri Chinmoy Centre Cycling Team to victory in the 24-Hour Pepsi Bicycle Marathon (May 28—29) in Central Park, New York, NY, USA. The team, cycling a cumulative 22,530 miles, wins the team prize against a field of 9,000. The team also wins the best cycling uniform category. Sri Chinmoy himself cycles 175 miles in the event.
A ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile’ is inaugurated by the Mayor of Oxford, Bill Fagg, and Sri Chinmoy at Cutteslowe Park, Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Governor-General’s Residence in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Riverdale Dance Theater in the Bronx, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes his 7,000th Bengali song Kandte Chahi Tomar Lagi Anukkhan in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal record of 103 ‘crunch abdomen-ups’, by pushing up 203 lbs. in a time of 1 min. 3.95 sec. in Jamaica, NY, USA. (While lying on his back, the 203-pound weight is placed on his abdomen. Each time, he lifts up 1⅓ times his own body weight 2 to 3 inches.) In the same session, he achieves a further two PBs: 35 fingertip pushups; and a headstand balance for 4 min. 21.22 sec.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements, ‘He has the Spirit and Strength to Lift’ is published in New York’s Daily News.
Sri Chinmoy receives an award “for important contributions to the organisation of marathons and races in Russia” from the President of the Russian Association of Marathons and Races, in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings at the Museum of Russian Contemporary History in Moscow, Russia, where he performs an esraj concert and also presents one of his original paintings to the Museum.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including cosmonauts Gennady Strekalov, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Viktor Savinykh, Aleksandr Serebrov, Vladimir Solovyov, Valeriy Korzun, Victor Afanasyev and Georgiy Grechko; and test pilot Marina Popovich, at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mazda Palace in Turin, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy attends the first performance of ‘Madal Circus’ at Hillcrest High School gymnasium in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon (3 p.m.) lecture, entitled ‘The Mind Power Versus the Heart Power’, and an evening (8 p.m.) lecture, entitled ‘How to Solve World Problems’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy and his 135-member team line up with more than 9,000 other cyclists at the midday start of the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bike Marathon in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy leads a 197-member team of his students to victory in the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bike Marathon in Central Park over the Memorial Day weekend. The team of 114 men and 83 women wins multiple first-place prizes: best riding team (total of 38,605 miles); best ten-member riding team, best 10-25 member team (24-members, 6,355 miles); first place for women (Pragati Pascale), 305 miles); and best uniform (orange shorts, white shirts and rainbow coloured hats). Ashrita Furman, 405 miles, places third for men. Sri Chinmoy himself rides 230 miles.
Sri Chinmoy presents 47 of his books to Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (343) — the fifth of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in Fishkill, NY, USA.
Brazil is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Rafael Greca de Maceda. Brazil becomes South America’s first Peace-Blossom-Nation.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the International University (in Moscow), where Sri Chinmoy delivers an 11:00 a.m. lecture, entitled ‘United Nations’, and receives the Gold Medal of Honour by Dr. S.N. Krasavchenko, Rector of the University, in the University Great Conference Hall in Moscow, Russia. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the lecture to the International University in Moscow and to the Soul of the United Nations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, at the State Central Concert Hall ‘Russia’ in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (afternoon and evening) at the Teatro Della Luna in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy receives an award for his contribution to sports from the Soul and Fitness Institute in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled ‘How Far Are We From Realisation?’ – the eighth in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at the home of Mrs. Elma Winter, in Brooklyn Heights, NY, USA. The entire series of eight talks are edited by his very close friend Mr. Eric Hughes.
Sri Chinmoy leads a 215-member cycling team of his students to victory in the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bicycle Marathon in Central Park over the Memorial Day weekend. It is the third consecutive year (1977,1978,1979) the team takes out the ‘Best Riding Team’ and ‘Best Uniformed Team’ awards. Team members also claim the Women’s second and third-place trophies and the Men’s third-place trophy. Sri Chinmoy completes 160 miles.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, playing 103 instruments including a piano performance, at the Kongresshalle in Davos, Switzerland.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Niska Gallery in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at the Immaculate Conception Church in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, including a piano performance, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God the Universal Beauty’, at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, "The Master-Key of the Global-Heart", in honour of President Gorbachev of Russia. His first meeting with the President takes place two days later on May 29th in Ottawa, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts university professors at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Health’, at the National Institute of Health in St. Petersburg, Russia. After the lecture, the Scientific Board of the National Health Institute awards Sri Chinmoy with the Degree of Honoured Professor of the National Institute of Health.
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at UNESCO in Paris, France. There, he dedicates his 12,000th Bengali song, Bangla Gan/Bengali Songs, to the soul of UNESCO. The occasion is also marked with a special ceremony for the World Harmony Run. Vladimir Petrovsky, the former Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva, is one of the main speakers.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Inner Way’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy and the 215-member-strong Sri Chinmoy Centre Cycling Team line up at the start of the 24-hour Pepsi-Cola Bicycle Marathon in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Clarence Clemons, saxophonist of the E Street Band, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first plays the organ, which he calls The Summit-Song of Self-Transcendence, in Fraumünster Church, Zurich, Switzerland. Watch the video...
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Felix Kuznetsov, Director of the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (342) — the fourth of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (541), delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Indian Philosophy: A Glimpse’, and receives India’s Peace-Service-Tree Award at Florida International University in Miami, FL, USA. Sri Chinmoy is invited as a Visiting Philosopher by Nathan Katz, Professor and Chair, of the Department of Religious Studies.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a seated two-arm lift of 400 lbs. at his home gym in New York — a new personal record.
Gabon is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Science’, at 11:00 a.m., at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy receives the title ‘Honourable Academician of the International Academy of Ecology, Man and Nature Protection Sciences’ and The Roerich Medal in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, academicians, sports figures and others, including the head of the Military Space Engineering Academy, Russian Cosmonaut Leonid D. Kizim, at the Sports and Culture Complex in St. Petersburg, Russia. After the lifting programme, Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to former United Nations Secretary-General Dr. Pérez de Cuéllar in Paris, France. Sri Chinmoy also offers the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ Award to the Secretary-General and his wife, Mme. Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar.
See also: Kind words Javier Pérez de Cuéllar at Sri Chinmoy.org
Sri Chinmoy meets with U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, when he was the guest of honour at an evening performance of Sri Chinmoy’s play, Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha, held on an outdoor stage at Old Mill Farm in Harrison, NY. Before the play, Sri Chinmoy gives a welcome speech and garlands U Thant. U Thant is accompanied by his daughter, son-in-law and young grandson.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Truth’, and presents 50 of his books to Yale Divinity School, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
50 Oneness-State Songs run in Connecticut. Sri Chinmoy aimed to run 7 miles in each state.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Liederhalle Mozart-Saal in Stuttgart, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘Lightning-Thunder: Sugar Ray’, for the American boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard — Olympic gold medallist (1976) and winner of world titles in five weight classes.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings, sponsored by the Indian Arts Council of the United Kingdom, opens at the Horizon Gallery in London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Seattle Center Memorial Stadium to an audience of 5,000 in Seattle, WA, USA. Video highlights
New Mexico becomes a Sri Chinmoy Peace State in the USA.
Armenia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Philosophy’, at the Philosophical Anthropology Faculty of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before the lecture, Sri Chinmoy is presented with the ‘Golden Owl’ Sign of Honour, the highest award of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, “for enormous support in the development of sciences about man,” by Professor V.A. Rabosh, Dean of the Philosophical Anthropology Faculty.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Medicine’, at 3 p.m. at the Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before the lecture, the University’s Rector, Professor N.A. Yaitskiy, presents Sri Chinmoy with a Commemorative Medal on the occasion of his University’s 100th anniversary. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the lecture to Raisa Maximovna.
Sri Chinmoy visits the ‘Future Clinic’, to be named after Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, at Pavlov State Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening talk at 8:30 p.m., entitled ‘The Universality of Religion’ at the Universalist Church of New York City, 67th Street and Central Park West, NY, USA, at the invitation of its director, the Reverend Leonard Helie.
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo marathon in 4 hrs. 30 mins. in Munich, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Die Flora in Cologne, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy begins lifting people for the first time — the precursor to his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, held at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes and dictates a special poem-song about his life, entitled ‘An Orphan Boy’, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the Nepali Ambassador to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in honour of the great American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings at the Dyagilev Centre of Arts Exhibition Hall, at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Commemorative Medal of Babel from the Philological Department of St. Petersburg State University and the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Award is presented by the Director of the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor V.M. Monakhov, at the opening of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala art exhibition.
