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Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Flame-Waves from the Upanishad-Sea, Part 2’, at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration, Meditation, Willpower and Love’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Problems’, at 1:30 p.m. in The Chapel at Wheeling College, Wheeling, WV, USA.

Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for his first visit to Australia. He will give a total of 10 lectures in Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, which are later published in My Heart’s Salutation to Australia, Part 1 and Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and meditation in the Cole Auditorium of Greenwich Library, on West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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

Green Leaves and Ripe Fruits, a new series of Sri Chinmoy races for children under 10 and adults over 50, is inaugurated at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The 400-and 800-metre events will continue to be held there every Sunday at 5 p.m., rain or shine.

Sri Chinmoy attends the Mobil Games at Madison Square Garden to watch Carl Lewis compete in the long jump in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for the Literary Gazette (Moscow) by its US correspondent Mr. Edgar Tcheporov.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Ghana Award.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special memorial at PS 86 in Jamaica, New York, for his dear friend, President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia, who had tragically died in a plane crash just two days earlier. During the function, Sri Chinmoy sings a song he had com­posed for the President, entitled ‘Your Death is Not the End’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Compassion’, at 9 a.m. in Kendall Cram Room, Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love Human and Love Divine’, at 2 p.m. in Room 132, Jefferson Davis Campus, Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College in Gulfport, MS, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human and the Divine’, at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom, the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Success-March and Progress-Flight’, in Conference Room 10 at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Giver and the Receiver’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, with a performance on two pianos simultaneously using an electronic replay, at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA. The performance is recorded live and released as ‘The Cries of the Unknown and the Smiles of the Unknowable’. Listen to the CD…

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

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on the cable TV programme ‘Father Tom and Religious Leaders’ on Telecare, in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Cirque D’Hiver in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 28th anniversary of first playing the esraj, by offering a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy completes 10,000 paintings in 100 days in Jamaica, NY, USA. The final 1,000 paintings are completed in 21 hours.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘What Is It?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

A half-hour interview with Sri Chinmoy on WCBS-TV’s ‘The Way To Go’ is aired in New York, NY, USA. The interview is conducted by Dr. James P. Carse, professor and Chairman of the Religion Department at New York University.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sy Mah, a senior citizen who has completed over 490 marathons, honouring him with a song and a plaque, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, an organ performance, delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration’, and recites 5 peace poems, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Don Ritchie, ultra-distance runner, the world-record holder for 100 miles and 100 km, in the garden tent at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at New South Wales Parliament House in Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy composes two songs about the United Nations Office of Project Services and holds a special meditation at the invitation of the Executive Director, Reinhart Helmke, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy visits Russia for the first time at the invitation of President Gorbachev for his 70th birthday on March 2nd.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed about his Jhanra-Kala artworks on New York television.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Does it Mean to be Spiritual?’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a seven-hour meditation for his 20 years in the West, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with Karan Singh, former Ambassador for India to the USA, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. (Karan Singh has just resigned his ambassadorial post in America and meets with Sri Chinmoy before returning to India.)

Sri Chinmoy meets with Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, and his wife Mrs. Hanne Strong, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Anatoli Sergeyevich Chernyayev, aid to President Gorbachev, former Soviet National Security Advisor; and Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko, interpreter, as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, in the garden tent behind Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the President’s Award from the Metropolitan Athletic Congress for his contributions to New York area running and his personal running achievements, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his ninth Piano Anniversary with a piano recital at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. At the beginning of the concert, Sri Chinmoy blesses a bust of Franz Schubert, one of his inspirations in the piano world.

Norway is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, in a motion signed by all seven National Parliament Leaders.

The Indian state of Gujarat (home of Mahatma Gandhi) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy records two half-hour interviews with New York TV personality Joel Martin for cable TV in New York, NY, USA. They will be aired during the spring.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings opens in Städtische Ausstellunghalle Klingental in Basel, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his sixth Piano Anniversary with a piano concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy cooks prasad for his students to mark the completion of his first 1,000 poems in his Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees series. It takes him five hours, 20 minutes to prepare the dish.

Sri Chinmoy also holds a four-hour meditation to commemorate the occasion. There will be future four-hour meditations to be held on the 24th of each month.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Cook Islands Award.

Sri Chinmoy performs on the Chinese erhu in a duet with legendary flautist Paul Horn in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performed on 8 Thai musical instruments at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Who are We?’, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates a Peace Mile at Bürgerpark in Pankow near the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, East Germany. He and his students then walk the one-mile course.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and lifts 19 people, including Mr. Bernard A. Molewa, Ambassador of the ANC to East Germany as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at the Kongresshalle am Alexanderplatz in East Berlin, East Germany.

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

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Malta and the Heart of Malaysia Awards.

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

Sri Chinmoy performs his first public piano improvisation – ‘The Battle of Kurukshetra’ – at a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers his first Peace Concert in East Germany and lifted 13 German residents at Opernhaus Leipzig, in Leipzig, East Germany.

Sri Chinmoy receives four awards from the International Association of Educators for World Peace — two Diplomas of Honour, an Award proclaiming him Dharma Raja (King of Dharma) and the ‘Fountain of Universal Peace Award’ — at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA. A cassette, entitled ‘Peace Blossoms’, of Sri Chinmoy singing 22 of the songs from the concert, is released in 1992. Listen to the recording...

Sri Chinmoy breaks his personal Basketball Record by shooting 79 baskets out of 100 throws from the foul line at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. 
 

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts nine mature elephants, all weighing more than 4,000 lbs., including the heaviest elephant he ever lifted – an 8,046 lb. female carrying a mahout and the apparatus for a total of 8,622 lbs. – using a calf-raise machine with a ground platform at the Mae Taeng Elephant Park, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Also lifted is a baby elephant.