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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration, Meditation and Contemplation’, in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire-Man, Aspiration-Man, Dream-Man, Reality-Man’, at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON, Canada.

In honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 11th year in the West, a new American flag is flown over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr. of Connecticut later presented the flag to Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj on ‘This Morning Show’, Channel 3 TV, broadcast from Hartford, CT, USA.

Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, hosts a banquet for women delegates to the United Nations in honour of International Women’s Day, attracting diplomats from countries as diverse as Egypt, Honduras and Costa Rica. The event is sponsored by the Meditation Group at the UN led by Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Silence’, at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at James J. Reynolds Junior High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy completes one million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in 5½ days for a total of seven million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, at the UNESCO office in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers a World Harmony Concert, sponsored by the Canadian Ambassador to UNESCO, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Before the programme, Sri Chinmoy lifts UNESCO Ambassadors from eight countries, including China, Japan and Ukraine, as well as other diplomats and luminaries. Also, a selection of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks is exhibited in the building.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Einar Steensnaes, Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO, at the UNESCO office in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy is invited to deliver a talk, entitled ‘Joy unlimited’, at a luncheon held by the Lions Club of the Bronx, at the Westchester-Bronx, NY Branch of the YMCA, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual seekers’, at the University of Windsor in Windsor, ON, Canada.

India’s UN Ambassador H.E. Dr. Rikhi Jaipal presents one of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings to Assistant UN Secretary-General Dr. Estefania Aldaba-Lim, Special Representative for the International Year of the Child, at the UN Church Centre in New York.

Sri Chinmoy leads 127 meditations after reaching a record body weight of 127 lbs. – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Vision-Dawn’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivered a lecture, entitled ‘Obedience’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Louis Pasteur Junior High School 67 in Little Neck, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 4-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The city of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Svenn Kristiansen, Deputy Mayor of Oslo, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, in which he plays 40 instruments to honour Svenn Kristiansen for having run 40 marathons – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 teachers and students at St. Albans, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Enoch Effah, world champion of French boxing, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 ambassadors and 16 other people at UNESCO in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, ‘Mother Bengal’s Culture-Flood’, dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Myself’, at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled ‘Service’, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada.

The Cape Cod Times carries a photo and an article about Sri Chinmoy running his second marathon of the year — the ‘Heart-watchers’ run in Toledo, Ohio.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Compassion’, at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘C.K.G. the Artist’.

Scotland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Switzerland Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Nikolai Valuev of Russia, WBA Heavyweight World Boxing Champion, at Palais des Congrès in Paris, France. Read article...

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the birthday of Ambassador Chowdhury’s wife Marium at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Bliss’, at Guelph University in Guelph, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of appreciation from U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘You and I’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to the great prophet Mohammed — founder of the world religion, Islam — at the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at the Ethical Culture Society of New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for the marathon in a time of 3:55:07 (8:58 pace) at the Heart-Watchers Marathon in Toledo, OH, USA. The temperature at the start of the race is 24°F. This is Sri Chinmoy’s second marathon, having run his first-ever marathon just 22 days earlier. 

Toledo Mayor Douglas Degood declares 25 March 1979 ‘Sri Chinmoy Day’ in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives an introductory talk, entitled ‘My Name is not Sri Chinmoy. My Name is Gratitude’, at a meeting with the parents of his German disciples in Cologne, Germany. At the end of the meeting, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from some of the parents.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Gut Buschhof in Bonn-Königswinter, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Polish President Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1983), and presents him with three songs he had composed in honour of Poland and the President.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Wales Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 actors from the off-Broadway hit ‘The Exonerated’ including Brooke Shields, Jill Clayburgh, Marisa Tomei, Robert Vaughn and Montel Williams. The lifts occurred after the play’s 200th performance at Bleecker Street Theatre in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Invitational Marathon to be run in New York by his students who have run faster than 3:55:07 within the last 10 years. 

Sri Chinmoy lifts 7 horses individually, then 3 at once, at DND Horse Stables in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Guru and the Hostile Forces’, to his disciples at a Centre meeting in his apartment in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Duty Supreme’, at Boston University in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers the final in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’, in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is asked a significant question about how to concentrate on the Guru. His answer covers divine love, divine concern, and divine joy or delight.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a midday lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality and Satisfaction’, at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a 7:30 p.m. lecture, entitled ‘Beauty’, at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Nicolas Katapodis of Greece at a special function at the United Nations in New York, sponsored by Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations, in celebration of Greece’s Independence Day.

Sri Chinmoy offers his first Peace Concert — ‘Peace: God's Beauty in His Oneness-Home’ — to an audience of over 8,000 for 3 hours at the Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany. Watch the full-length video of the concert... Listen to the CD recording of the concert...

Sri Chinmoy visits the Olympic Stadium in West Berlin, Germany, where Jesse Owens won four gold medals. In a deeply symbolic gesture in honour of his athletic hero, Sri Chinmoy meditates in the reviewing stand from which Hitler had watched the Games in 1936.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kongresszentrum CCH in Hamburg, Germany.

At the request of race director Umberto Silvestri, Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Rome City Marathon in Italy. The race has 16,000 participants, including 340 of Sri Chinmoy’s students.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, in Rome, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins writing The Dance of Life poetry series, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a midday lecture, entitled ‘Limitation’, at Trent University in Peterborough, ON, Canada. After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from the audience.

Sri Chinmoy offers a special concert and meditation for members of the African-American community at International House, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk at the New School for Social Research in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 3.5 miles in 25:29 (7:17/mile pace) at the ‘March Speed Run’ in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts — midday and evening — at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany.

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

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of a natural spring inside Powsin Park near Warsaw, Poland, as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom. Powsin Park was originally an American Embassy recreation park, later gifted to the City of Warsaw.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Stanislaw Wyganowski, Mayor of Warsaw, in Warsaw, Poland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Zaklady Mechaniczne Nowotki in Warsaw, Poland. It is Sri Chinmoy’s 300th Peace Concert since he first began on 24 March 1984.

A reception for diplomats is held at the exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s One Million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in the Heritage Building, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Fred Lebow Award from the organisers of the Rome Marathon, in Rome, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy completes six million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The city of Vasco da Gama in the Indian state of Goa is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of the United Kingdom Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 children and boy scouts at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pope Paul VI for the first time, at the Vatican. The Holy Father presents Sri Chinmoy with the Papal Medal.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a midday lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration’, at Queen's University in Kingston, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an 8 p.m. lecture, entitled ‘Progress’, at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy gives an extemporaneous talk to his disciples about how to sing his most sacred song The Invocation, during a bus trip to Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Boston, MA, USA. While there, Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by two Boston journalists.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality Speaks to Simplicity’, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Brooklyn Half-Marathon, in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He completes the course in a time of 1:57:28 — an 8:58/mile pace.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy is presented with the ‘Our Lady, Queen of Peace’ award by the international Catholic service organisation, the Legion of Mary, during one of the regular weekly meditation meeting Sri Chinmoy conducts at the United Nations in New York. The award is made by Dr. Charles Mercieca on behalf of the Legion.

Later in the day at the UN, Sri Chinmoy is also presented with the ‘Albert Einstein Peace Medallion’ by the founder and president of the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation, Dr. Marcel Dingli-Attard (a Maltese diplomat). The Academy is an educational and research organisation with headquarters in Independence, Missouri.

Sri Chinmoy runs two solo time trials for 100 metres at an indoor venue in Warsaw, Poland. The first trial is run in 14.60 seconds; the second, in 14.73 seconds. His bodyweight is approximately 153 pounds.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of a Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile at Park Szczęśliwice (State of Happiness) in Warsaw, Poland.

The Gambia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 lbs. with each arm simultaneously — a total weight of 400 lbs. — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

India’s capital New Delhi is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom by Mayor Meera Kanwaria.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 Guyanese and Indian citizens, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the University of Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Purity’, at the University of Montreal in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for Earth Day and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Mother Earth’, at Battery Park in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of appreciation from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the City Council of New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Lord, My Lord’, at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor, at the maestro’s home in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Because I Need’, at a memorial service for former Ambassador Allard Lowenstein held at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Pałac Kultury, Warsaw, Poland.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 800 lbs., using a seated calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Albania, Heart of Georgia, Heart of Micronesia and Heart of St. Kitts Awards.

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