April 26

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

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

The 8th annual Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour Road Race finishes and the 2nd annual Sri Chinmoy 1,000 Mile Road Race begins. Sri Chinmoy meditates with the runners at both events, which are held at Flushing Meadows Park in New York, NY, USA. The cut-off for the 1,000-mile event is 11 May 1986.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for participants in the Bangladesh Day Parade, organised by the Bangladesh Students Association in New York City, NY USA. As a proud Bengali native himself, Sri Chinmoy walks in the parade.

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

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

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

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

 

April 25

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates a new ‘divine enterprise’ on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, New York, USA. He gives it the name, Guru Health Foods.

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy completes 43,000 Soul-Birds since he began drawing them on December 29th, 1991. He gives the name ‘Eternity’s 13,000 Aspiration-Cries’ to the collection of 13,000 artworks (nos. 30,001–43,000).

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

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

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

 

April 24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the Self-Transcendence Six and Ten Day Races organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, USA. The ten-day event starts, followed by the six-day event four days later on 28 April, with both races finishing on 4 May.

 

April 23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Mauritius Award.

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

April 22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy hosts the Sri Chinmoy Tennis Classic, held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also presents the awards.

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

 

April 21

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation for spiritual seekers in Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA. He meditates in silence, plays music and answers questions. Three other similar programmes were held at the same venue during April and May.

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Venezuela Award.

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

 

April 20

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

Sri Chinmoy completes his first 12-hour walk, for a total distance of 45¼ miles, at the Jamaica High School Track and around the school block in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening concert of spiritual music at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, as an expression of his gratitude to the city that has been his home for the past 16 years.

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

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

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

 

April 19

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy plays four tennis pros, winning 48 out of 101 games,  at Randalls Island,  NY, USA.

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

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

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

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

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

 

April 18

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

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

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

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 pounds in each arm simultaneously to the absolute highest point with full arm extension, in New York, USA. 

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

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

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

 

April 17

 

PEACE CONCERT HELD AT UNITED NATIONS

UNITED NATIONS — Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert for the Millennium in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium here on April 17.

Special guests included Roberto Cantoral, President of the Society of Authors and Composers of Music of Mexico, who presented Sri Chinmoy with a Heart of Gold. The Society had named Sri Chinmoy a recipient of its Heart of Gold Award at ceremonies in Mexico City Jan. 21, but the Award presentation took place at the UN.

Cantoral cited Sri Chinmoy’s “untiring struggle for world peace, manifested through concerts and other events throughout the globe,” as well as the other “humanitarian and selfless causes which he pursues.”

Sri Chinmoy said: “I wish this heart of gold to grow inside my prayerful heart so that my heart will be as beautiful, as pure and as divine as your blessingful offering to me today.”


Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 27, April-early August 1998