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Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Truth’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Champlain Valley Marathon in a time of 4:41:16 in Plattsburgh, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at Place Bonaventure in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy and President Gorbachev meet for the third time. Their meeting is held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, NY, USA. President Gorbachev is accompanied by his wife Raisa Maximovna and their daughter Irina Virganskaya.

Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva and her daughter Irina visit an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 52 Vanderbilt Ave. in Manhattan, New York. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the exhibition to the first lady of Russia and offers her one of his works of art for her private collection.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (404) — the 4th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Le Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (499) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 30th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy pays a visit to the apartment at 4826 New Utrecht Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, where he lived from August 1965 to April 1966. Sri Chinmoy published his first AUM magazine and gave some of his earliest lectures here.

Sri Chinmoy lifts United Nations Ambassadors, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts philanthropists Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and his wife Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA. They offer their goodwill to another of Sri Chinmoy’s inspired events, the World Harmony Run, by holding one of the torches that runners carry around the world.

Sri Chinmoy appears for one hour on WBAB-FM radio in New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates with mothers and children in honour of Mother’s Day at Progress-Promise in New York, USA.

At the end of the Sri Chinmoy 1,000-Mile Race, at Flushing Meadows Park, in New York, all the runners — as well as race officials, singers and Sri Chinmoy himself — are driven around the course on a float for a victory lap of the one-mile circuit. Sri Chinmoy completes a total of 65 miles during the race, walking to the race from his home and around the course.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts mountain climber Kurt Winkler at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Stoyan Trenchevski, head of the Macedonian Mother Teresa Foundation, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert and honours flautist Paul Horn by lifting him. In the evening, Paul Horn offers a solo concert for Sri Chinmoy, his students and invited guests, in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Right to Happiness: a Human Right?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Simon Draper, producer; and Emma Moore, associate producer of the BBC TV programme ‘Be Me’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts United Nations Security Guards, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on a Connecticut television programme in Hartford, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is invited to be a Visiting Lecturer by the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Is Art?’, to the faculty and student body of the School of Art.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St. Joseph’s Church in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj performance and delivers a lecture at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy is the guest of honour at Rabindranath Tagore’s Birthday Celebrations sponsored by the Tagore Society of New York at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 220 lbs. using only his right arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Queen Elizabeth II held the Peace Torch during Britain’s V.E. Day 50th Anniversary Celebrations at Hyde Park, London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.

A dedication ceremony for Canada as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation is held in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

At a special ceremony to honour the President of Macedonia Boris Trajkovski, Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and presents him with the U Thant Peace Award, as well as lifting him as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. This is the first time a head of state has been honoured at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Mother Teresa Award from President Trajkovski of Macedonia, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy pays a visit to St. Charles Borromeo School, Harlem, New York, USA, where he lifts school children and their principal. The ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ ceremony was organised by Sri Chinmoy’s long-time student Pravin Mimms. 

Sri Chinmoy lifts Robert Muller, former UN Assistant Secretary-General; Chancellor, UN University for Peace, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Mysticism’, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy observes the birthday of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore at the United Nations in New York, at which he recites selections in Bengali from Tagore’s poetry and performs his own Bengali song, entitled ‘Bharater Rabi’ dedicated to the poet.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the National Art Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy honours United Nations Ambassadors at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Professor P. Jayarama Reddy, Vice-Chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, South India, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis in Houston, TX, USA. He represented the USA at four Olympic Games and is a nine-time Olympic gold medallist in the long jump, 100m, 200m and the 4 x 100m relay.

Sudhahota Carl Lewis gave awards in nine different areas to those individuals who had most powerfully influenced his life. He selected Sri Chinmoy to receive the award for being most influential in his spiritual life – Houston, TX, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert, together with the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at the Canadian Parliament on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Yale University professors as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Strength of Surrender’ – the fifth in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at the home of Elma Winter in Brooklyn Heights, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret Supreme’, at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND, USA.

Sri Chinmoy departs John F Kennedy airport in New York for a two-week stay with his family in India.

Sri Chinmoy reveals ‘Ten Divine Secrets’ for the benefit of his disciples. They are later published in a book of the same name.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Newsday Long Island Marathon in a time of 4:16:23, on Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Chilean tennis star Jaime Filiol and plays two sets with him at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Memorial Service for NY Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo, at the Cannon House Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs his first double-dumbbell lift – a two-arm lift of 100 lbs. with both arms simultaneously – a total of 200 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs a double-dumbbell lift – a two-arm lift of 300 lbs. with both arms simultaneously – a total of 600 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joop Koopman, Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher of the Dutch magazine Catholic Digest, and offers him the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ award.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Laval University in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

The Sri Chinmoy 70-mile Run is held in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 210 lbs. using only his right arm in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.

‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run Day’, is proclaimed by Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire at a welcome ceremony for the relay runners held at the Jeppesen Field House at the University of Houston, Houston, USA. Sudhahota Carl Lewis acts as the Master of Ceremonies.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for C. Subramaniam, President of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Governor of Maharashtra; and S. Ramakrishnan, Executive Secretary, at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York, NY, USA.

The State of North Carolina is proclaimed a ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace State’ by Governor James B. Hunt Jr. on the occasion of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, passing through North Carolina on its journey through all 50 US states.

Sri Chinmoy answers a series of written questions submitted by Joop Koopman, Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher of the Dutch magazine, Catholic Digest.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 12,000th Bengali song Bangla Gan in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the first of his regular morning meditations on TV, Channel 5 in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Lord Supreme’, at Pace College in White Plains, NY, USA.

Dial-a-Meditation telephone service with a recording of Sri Chinmoy reciting the daily aphorism begins in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Halifax, NS, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with two world-class tennis stars, Ramesh Krishnan of India and Nduka Odizor of Nigeria, at his tennis court at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Each Nation In Its Place Is Great’, in Conference Room 9, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Quintessence of Patriotism’, at the Naval Air Station in Willow Grove, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the distinguished art curator Henry Geldzahler of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who came to view the Master’s paintings at his Jharna-Kala Gallery, 200 Mercer Street in lower Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Mr. Geldzahler selects a group of paintings from the gallery for a travelling art exhibit to tour the United States.

Sri Chinmoy paints a 6’ x 8’ canvas dedicated to the United Nations entitled, ‘United Nations: the Heart-Home of the World-Body’, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The painting is later exhibited at the UN and galleries around the world.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Symposium on Science and Human Values at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at the First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA. Listen to the CD...

Sri Chinmoy records a standing vertical high jump of 35 inches in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes a tribute to the nine-time Olympic gold medalist Sudhahota Carl Lewis.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 270 lbs. with both arms simultaneously, for a total of 540 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,200 lbs., using a seated calf raise machine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.