June 1
June 1
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening (7:30 p.m.) concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘O My Heart’, in the McMillan Theater at Columbia University in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
June 1
My Bird of Consciousness
by Sri Chinmoy
age of 17 years
at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
Midnight. The sky was overcast with clouds. It was raining in torrents. I do not know why and what for a sweet surge of bliss entered my heart and awakened me from my sleep. I got up. After a while I began to look hither and thither. I found nobody and was unable to know from whom the sweet bliss had come. So with a heavy heart I was going to have my sleep again. All of a sudden someone in me cried aloud, saying, "Look to the sky, my dear, just have a look to the sky." I looked to the sky. It was raining no more. No cloud was seen in the sky. The eternally pure face of the moon was shining brightly.
Soon I felt my bird of consciousness was dancing merrily in the bosom of the Moon. Thither I found a sweet and flower-like hand calling me with great love. Soon dancing with infinite joy my heart began to fly up to the blue sky from where my friend was beckoning me.
On the way only once I looked down on the earth. There I saw some earthly beings calling me with great affection and requesting me not to go to my Goal. While on the other hand some were saying, "Our loving friend, proceed on, onward. Hearken, our beloved is calling you." I responded to the ardent wish of the latter.
I reached my Goal. The flower-like hand commanded me to go into the depth of my heart and see his whole creation. With what a joy I saw his entire creation in me. Soon the Hand touched my head lightly and transformed me into light, love and beauty.
Published in AUM – Vol. 8, No. 5, December 1972
The Meaning of Discipleship Today
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California
Listen to the live recording.
Dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, dear distinguished professors and deans, here we are all seekers. We are sailing in the same boat, the boat that is carrying us to the Golden Shore of the Beyond. Nothing gives me a greater sense of satisfaction than to be of dedicated service to seekers, for I am also a seeker, an eternal seeker, a seeker of the infinite Truth and Light. As you know, I was asked by my esteemed friend, Dean Foster, to speak on the meaning of discipleship today. This is a most significant subject, and therefore I offer him my gratitude-heart.
What is a disciple? A disciple is a seeker; he is a truth-seeker. What is a disciple? A disciple is a lover; he is a Heaven-lover. What is a disciple? A disciple is a server; he is an earth-server. What is a disciple? A disciple is a fulfiller; he is a God-fulfiller.
If we want to know the meaning of discipleship today, we have to focus our concentrated attention on the role of the disciple. The role of the disciple is quite simple, of course, if he follows the path of the heart and not the path of the mind. The role of the disciple is to give what he has and what he is. What he has is an inner cry, which is birthless and deathless. The disciple offers this birthless and deathless inner cry to his Pilot Supreme and receives His infinite Light, eternal Peace, and immortal Bliss. What he is, is a devoted and soulful instrument. He wants to help mankind see the beauty of the Infinite in the very heart of the finite. He wants to unite earth's helpless cry and Heaven's endless Smile. He takes it as his bounden duty to serve both Mother Earth and Father Heaven. To manifest the eternal Truth is his constant cry and constant hunger. Undoubtedly, he is a chosen instrument of the Absolute Pilot Supreme.
Yesterday's disciple, today's disciple, and tomorrow's disciple. Yesterday's disciple was simple and humble. Simplicity was his outer life, humility was his inner life. Simplicity and humility inundated his entire being. Today's disciple is complicated and argumentative. Complication and argumentation reign supreme in his life, day in and day out. Tomorrow's disciple will be the fastest spiritual runner. His code of life will be to run and become, to become and run. He will run in order to succeed; he will become in order to proceed. At times he will run to reach the Goal; at times the Goal will come to him. When he reaches the Goal, he will be blessed with the transcendental Pride of the Absolute Supreme. When the Goal reaches him, he will immediately sit at the Feet of the Absolute Supreme with his heart's soulful gratitude-sea.
In the days of yore, the disciple was advised and encouraged by the Master to renounce the world. Renunciation was taught right from the beginning when the disciple came to the Master. The Vedic seers of the hoary past, and also the Upanishadic seers, offered a supreme message to the world at large: "Enjoy through renunciation." Everybody wants to enjoy, for satisfaction is of paramount importance. But the ancient seers came to realise that satisfaction can be achieved only through renunciation; there is no other way. This world of ours gives us things that do not last; their life-breath is very short. Everything here is an illusion — nothing can last and nothing will last permanently. Sooner than the soonest, everything dies. What is the use of running after things that will not last for good? So they taught their disciples not to run after material objects, and their students learned the message of renunciation.
Then there came a time when the message needed transformation. The sages, the seers, the spiritual Masters came to realise that acceptance of life is of paramount importance. If we renounce the world, if we renounce the body, vital, mind and heart, then what are we going to do for our Beloved Supreme? We say we love God and want to please Him. If we want to please Him, if we want to fulfil Him, then how can we reject or renounce the world? This world of ours, as it is, must be accepted. First we must accept it; then we have to transform it. Needless to say, this world is far, far from perfect. But unless and until we accept the world, unless we touch the earth-arena — the sufferings, the pains, the imperfections of the world at large — how are we going to change the face and fate of the world? Therefore, we must needs accept the world.
Our mind is full of doubts, worries and anxieties; our mind has to be transformed. Our vital quite often is destructive; we have to transform our destructive vital into a new vital which is dynamic. With a dynamic vital we will be able to run the fastest, dive the deepest and fly the highest. Our body is lethargic; our body enjoys ignorance-sleep. It has been sleeping for millions of years; yet it still wants to enjoy this ignorance-sleep. The seeker in us must tell our body to wake up. The Upanishadic seers have taught us how to inspire the body with inner dynamism just by repeating these soulful and powerful words of incantation.
Uttisthata jagrata prapya varan nibodhata;
Ksurasya dhara nisita duratyaya;
Durgam pathas tat kavayo vadanti.Arise, awake! Realise and achieve the Highest with the help of the illumining, guiding and fulfilling Masters. The path is as sharp as the edge of a razor, difficult to cross, hard to tread — so declare the wise sages.
Until the Goal is reached, do not stop! And this Goal is for whom? Not for the weakling! "The soul cannot be won by the weakling," Nayam atma bala-hinena labhyo. The inner Goal can be achieved only by powerful souls, not by weak ones. The Goal that satisfies our inner world and our outer world, the Goal that quenches our Eternity's thirst, will not be achieved by weaklings.
Yesterday's disciple could not satisfy us. Today's disciple cannot satisfy us. Tomorrow's disciple also perhaps will not satisfy us. Why? Yesterday's disciple said to the Master, "Master, give me capacity. If you bless me with capacity, I shall please you." The disciple did not want to go further; he did not tell the Master that he would be more than willing to please the Master in his own way. Today's disciple says to the Master, "Master, I am giving you a golden chance. Do please me in my own way today. If you please me today, I give you my word of honour that tomorrow I shall please you in your own way. But you have to please me first, and I have already given you a golden supreme chance." Tomorrow's disciple perhaps will say to the Master, "Master, let us please each other. You give me something significant and I shall give you something significant. You give me your soul's Himalayan realisation, and I shall give you my life's sleepless service." Here also the disciple has managed to forget the message of unconditional Reality. It is all conditional: the Master has to give something to the disciple; then only the disciple will give something else to the Master. Therefore, yesterday's disciple could not accomplish the supreme task, today's disciple cannot do it and tomorrow's also will fail. But in the distant future — it may take millions of years — there shall come a time when the seeker-disciple will be ready to please the Master in the Master's own way. The seeker-disciple will be able to identify himself with the supreme prayer-message of the Saviour-Supreme, the Christ: "Father, let Thy Will be done." Here the message of surrender comes to the fore.
Unfortunately, the present-day world is scared to death when it hears the word "surrender." But the surrender that we speak of in the spiritual life is not the surrender of the slave to the master. It is the recognition of the Infinite by the finite. A tiny drop recognises its inner identity with the vast ocean. It then enters into the ocean and becomes the vast ocean itself.
In the spiritual life, nobody is compelled to surrender. But everybody has an inner urge to grow into the Infinite. As the tiny drop grows into the Infinite, even so, our finite consciousness can eventually grow into Infinity. Surrender and freedom are always at daggers drawn, but if we dive deep within we see that there is no difference between these two so-called realities. They are just the obverse and the reverse of the same coin. Before we accepted the spiritual life, we enjoyed freedom in one way. We fulfilled, or wanted to fulfil, our earth-bound desires. We felt, perhaps, that we had the capacity and potentiality to be another Napoleon or Alexander the Great. Like Julius Caesar, we wanted to voice forth: "I came, I saw, I conquered." This is the positive way that we could have embraced: this reality. Otherwise, if we embraced it in the negative way, then we would have cherished and admired deep in the inmost recesses of our heart the destructive message of Hitler and Stalin. In any event, before we entered into the spiritual life we did enjoy freedom; whether it was real freedom or not is another matter. But we can say that we enjoyed something in a limited way, and the after-effect was total frustration. Therefore, we needed a kind of escape. Or we can say that illumination dawned on us. So we gave up the desire-bound life and entered into the spiritual life.
Previously we wanted to please and fulfil ourselves by fulfilling our desire-life, but now we want to please and fulfil ourselves by fulfilling our aspiration-life. It is not that we have given up our freedom. No! Freedom is always there. Only we have changed the course of the game, and now we are enjoying a different kind of freedom.
Unfortunately, when we enter into the spiritual life and follow a Master, we feel that we are surrendering to somebody else and giving up our freedom. But this is not at all true. Nobody is compelling us to follow a spiritual path; nobody is compelling us to listen to the Master. The seeker has come to the Master on the strength of his own inner urge. The seeker is staying with the Master in order to fulfil a divine longing that he feels. He feels that the Master knows a little more than he does, so he himself has decided to follow the Master. It is his own freedom that he is exercising. So the question of surrender does not arise at all. When we lead, we enjoy freedom. Again, when we consciously, deliberately, soulfully and unconditionally follow, at that time we enjoy another kind of freedom. In the case of the seeker, his inner awareness, inner development and inner sense of truth are compelling him to follow a higher life, a more illumining life, a more fulfilling life. It is his own free choice.
When the seeker follows a Master, he does not look upon the Master as a separate individual. He does not feel that he is a slave kissing the dust of the Master's feet. No! He knows perfectly well that the Master who is in the physical is only a representative of his real Guru, his real Master, who is none other than the Absolute Supreme. He sees himself as an exact prototype of his Master's divine consciousness, and he looks upon the Master as his own higher reality. So when he follows the Master, he is not surrendering his freedom to somebody else. Only he is exercising his freedom in a different way; he is exercising his freedom to follow his own higher reality.
In the spiritual life, it is always God for God's sake right from the beginning. If this message the seeker can embody, reveal and manifest in his life at every moment, then he will be a supreme and perfect instrument of his Beloved Supreme. There shall come a time when Mother Earth will be inundated with seeker-disciples who will be carrying the banner of unconditional surrender to God which is nothing other than conscious, constant, inseparable and unconditional divine oneness with their own higher reality and their Master who represents this higher reality.
Published in The Vision-Sky of California.
Be the divine eye of a mystic.
You will grow into God's Heart-Music.
Sri Chinmoy, My God-Hunger-Cry, Agni Press, New York, 2009
June 1
Video by Perfection Journey Films, with archival footage, and narration by Utpal Marshall
Sri Chinmoy begins long-distance running at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, when he spontaneously runs one mile.
As Sri Chinmoy takes his first few strides, he exhorts his students to join him, “Come, come, come, this is the beginning of our marathon ... run, run, run, run ... come, come, come ...”
A champion sprinter during his youth in India, Sri Chinmoy was unused to running long distances. Now, at almost 47 years of age, he was about to embark upon a whole new running career — and the marathon was clearly in his sights.
He encouraged his West Coast students to start training for the marathon in New York.
A few days later, on 3 June, during a bus trip from New York to Kingston in Canada, Sri Chinmoy would read out a list of his students he felt would have the capacity to run the 26-mile New York City Marathon in October — and so, the idea for a Sri Chinmoy Centre Marathon Team to enter the event became a reality.
During his own running career, Sri Chinmoy ran 22 marathons, including three New York City Marathons (1979, 1981 and 1982).
Sri Chinmoy first performs a standing calf raise with a weight of 400 lbs. at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre event in 16.42 seconds at the California State Senior Games at California State University, Sacramento, California.
June 1
Sri Chinmoy: Age no barrier to fitness
Fitness enthusiast and peace leader Sri Chinmoy, at age 64, performed an astonishing feat of physical strength on May 29 before a number of onlookers in Queens, N.Y.
Using his abdominal muscles he raised a weight of 203 lbs 103 times in 61.95 seconds. The concentrated weight, which was 1 and 1/3 times his body weight, was placed directly over his abdomen and he lifted the weight 2 to 3 inches each time.
Nishtha Baum of the Sri Chinmoy Centres International in Jamaica, N.Y. said Sri Chinmoy embarked on this new venture in late May with a 100-pound weight. In what he calls the “crunch abdomen-up” he then raised the 100-pound weight 100 times consecutively in 48.60 seconds. He then proceeded to perform 4,000 crunch sit-ups without stopping in 47 minutes, 28.53 seconds. A rate, she noted, of over 85 stomach crunches per minute.
Fitness expert and five-time “Mr. Universe,” Bill Pearl said “4,000 crunches is impressive but 100 crunches with 100 pounds is even more impressive. I am sure I can’t do that and I’ve been doing this for years and outweigh Sri Chinmoy by 80 or 90 pounds.
“Age is no barrier,” says Sri Chinmoy. “When the inflexibility of the mind surrenders to the enthusiasm of the heart, then we can accomplish many unimaginable things!” Dr. A. Rodriguez, medical director of the New York Road Runners Club said “Sri Chinmoy has an inner strength and an inner power. The astonishing feats of fitness which Sri Chinmoy displays have encouraged countless people to do what they never even dreamed they could do.”
Published in The Journal of Alternatives Therapies, Volume 2, Number 9, June 1996
June 13
Sri Chinmoy resigns from the Indian Consulate in a letter addressed to Mr. A.K. Mukherjee, Assistant to the Consul. He had worked at the consulate for three years as a Junior Consular Assistant in the Passport and Visa Section and in his non-working hours, he offered public spiritual talks, gave musical recitals and held meditations. After his resignation, Sri Chinmoy is able to devote himself fully to serving the spiritual needs of aspiring humanity.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at Bristol University in Bristol, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy completes 365 poems ‘Three Hundred Sixty-Five Father’s Day Prayers’ in honour of Father’s Day (16 June). They are written during the 72-hour period, beginning at 6:00 p.m. on 10 June, while on the plane to Puerto Rico from New York, and completed at 5:45 p.m. on 13 June during the time of his visit to the San Juan Sri Chinmoy Centre in Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy holds a 7-hour outdoor meditation at the Connecticut Centre in Norwalk, CT, USA, for his disciples who had been with him for less than 4 years.
Sri Chinmoy starts playing tennis – on, or around this date – most likely at a tennis court on 168th Street, near Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy plays 453 games of tennis over a 21-hour period – shortly before 6 a.m. until 11:10 p.m. – with 89 opponents at a local public court in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy plays 100 games of tennis in 3 days in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Role of the United Nations’ as part of his Dag Hammarskjöld lecture series, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy runs a two-mile race in 17:01, at Flushing Meadows Park, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts his own bodyweight of 150 lbs., with both arms simultaneously, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Noemi Kovanda, wife of the Czech ambassador to the United Nations, at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 4 million Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs 124 crunch abdomen-ups, 5 sets with 203 lbs.; standing calf raise of 1,400 lbs.; leg extensions with 120 lbs. on each leg; leg curls, with 110 lbs. on each leg, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 41st in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the Bayfront Center Arena in St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Prayer Room, Parliament House, in Oslo, Norway. Sri Chinmoy also lifts Members of Parliament and dignataries outside the Parliament building.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people at the Sport Hall in Ekeberg, Norway.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of France and Norway Awards.
June 12
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Seeker’s Journey, at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK.
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico, at the Governor’s Residence in Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy rides a cable car to the valley of Mount Säntis in northeastern Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates a ‘Tree of Meditation’ at Rieterberg Park in Zurich, Switzerland, which had been planted there by the City Council of Zurich on 6 June in honour of his visit to Zurich. Officiating at the dedication is Herr Schmid, First Adjunct of City Planning.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India, at the United Nations in New York. In the Prime Minister’s honour, members of the Meditation Group at the United Nations sing a song Sri Chinmoy had composed about him. Sri Chinmoy presents him with a plaque of appreciation with an inscription of the song.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Yadab Silwal of Nepal and Ambassador Arthur De Silva of Sri Lanka and their families at his private tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. The spiritual leader of ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’ played tennis with his guests and conclude the meeting with a meditation and the performance of two songs honouring the ambassadors’ countries.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace, Happiness and Freedom’, at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 287-pound wrestler professional wrestler Hillbilly Jim with his calf muscles using a seated calf-raise machine at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also sings a song he had composed in the wrestler’s honour.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Must and I Must’, at the University of Portland in Portland, OR, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Italian Garden in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the first Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, starting outside Thomas Edison High School, Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘World Peace Through Culture’, in the George Sverdrups Hus Library, Blindern Campus, at the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. Sri Chinmoy was invited to offer this lecture by Dr. Per Kvaerne, Professor of History and Religion at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo. Professor Kvaerne has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences for twenty-five years and is the world’s leading authority on Tibetan religions.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Muhammad Ali — ‘The Greatest’ — three-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and 1960 Olympic gold medallist, at Oneness-Family School in Chevy Chase, MD, USA. Sri Chinmoy also lifts Muhammad Ali’s wife Lonnie at the same time.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 745 lbs. with one arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.
June 11
Sri Chinmoy begins his second European lecture tour when he delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Three Lessons in Spirituality’, at Oxford University in Oxford, England, UK. The talks are later published as My Rose Petals Part 2.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Unreality and Reality’, at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy offers his first public flute performance, in Greenwich, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his Tennis Anniversary by playing 199 games, of which he wins 189, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How Can I Have Peace?’, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy writes an essay on ‘Politics and Spirituality’ and sends it to his friend Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 10th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a standing calf raise of 1,400 lbs.; and shoots 73 out of 100 basketball goals from the 15-foot penalty line, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with his former boss from the Indian Consulate, Mr. Lakhan L. Mehrotra, and his family at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 40th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits Oslo’s Bislett Stadium, in Norway, for a Sports Meet which attracted over 500 athletes.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Marcia Keizs, President of York College in Jamaica, New York, at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ function held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy reminisces about his ‘Experiences in Jamaica, West Indies’, since Dr. Keizs is a native of that country.
Sri Chinmoy reflects on his early athletic career at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, during a meeting at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy honours his friend Monsignor Thomas Hartman (Father Tom) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
June 10
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Success and Failure’ and answers seekers’ questions, in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy joins runners on the completion of a 300-mile relay run through Connecticut that began in Norwalk on 8 June. The event called the ‘Constitution State Relay Run’, honours Sri Chinmoy’s 10 years of dedicated service to the people of Connecticut. In the evening, Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert and meditation at the Greenwich Library.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Philosophy, Religion and Yoga’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. (On 17 July 1982, Sri Chinmoy refers to it as ‘Illumination-Ground’ and later gives it the name Aspiration-Ground’. Except for occasions when he is away from New York, Sri Chinmoy plays tennis here virtually every day for more than twenty years.)
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace Individual and Collective’, at Stuttgart University, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Pravda — the most influential newspaper in the Soviet Union with a circulation of 11 million — at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also lifts the reporter as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. Dr. Felix Kuznetsov of the Gorky Institute, Moscow, and his wife are also present on this occasion.
Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre event at the Metropolitan Athletics Congress (MAC) Masters Meet at St John’s University, Long Island, New York, NY, USA. His electronic time is 16.62 seconds. It is his first sprint race after recovering from injury, with only 2 days of training prior to the event.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and reads his own poetry at the opening of his Jharna-Kala exhibition at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including professors, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 24 instruments, and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Aspiration-Ground: all Peace, all Joy, all Love, all Oneness’, in honour of the 24th anniversary of Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Words, their Melodies’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. He comments on certain songs he wrote in India, in which he set his own words to traditional melodies.
Sri Chinmoy observes the twenty-sixth anniversary of Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. He invites the Aspiration-Ground servers to sing the song he had composed for them many years earlier, entitled ‘Aspiration-Comrade-Souls’, and then to ask him short questions, including how Aspiration-Ground was destined to be.