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, New York. Here, the two musicians play together at nearby Annam Brahma restaurant.
Sri Chinmoy congratulates Stu Mittleman, winner of the Sri Chinmoy 1,000-Mile Race, at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York.
In this life there will be a few things that the 1,000-mile runners will never be able to forget. This 1,000-mile race is one of them.
The runners will feel sad today that the race is over and that they are not on the course running. The handlers will feel happy.
We do not have much money-power, but we have heart-power. Other organisations may have so much money and thousands of people. But money-power does not work and man-power does not work. It is with our heart-power that we put on the 1,000-mile race.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run, part 18
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 a painting of her choice for her private collection. She chooses his 27,000th artwork.
“I see in this painting the colour of life and the colour of hope. The green stands for life and the blue stands for hope,” Raisa Maximovna said, “And that’s what I treasure in life.”
[The 27,000th painting can be seen in the photo above, on a display stand.]
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch with United Nations Ambassadors after honouring them with the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ Award at Aspiration-Ground in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts singer Christine Hoffman at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a musical tribute in honour of the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy at the gate of Aspiration-Ground in New York.
Sri Chinmoy pays a visit to the apartment at 4826 New Utrecht Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived from August 1965 to April 1966. Sri Chinmoy published his first AUM magazine and gave some of his earliest lectures here.
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
"Chinmoy, can you go to Sisir (Director of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) and bring me a copy of the book of biographies of eminent scientists? I think he will have this book in the university library."
I immediately went to Sisir-da and told him that Nolini-da wanted to have a copy of that book.
He said to me: "Suniti is not here. When she comes back she will search for it, and if we have it she will take it to Nolini-da."
So I went back to Nolini-da's room and started working. Fifteen minutes later he came in and said: "Where is the book?"
"Sisir-da said he would send it with Suniti if they have a copy of it."
"What? Go immediately and see if he has that book. If he does not have it, then don't waste any more time. Go to Medhananda (the librarian of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Library). I need that book urgently."
I went to Sisir-da. He said to me: "We don't have the book Nolini-da wants. Suniti says there is a book containing a few articles on the scientists, but it is a children's book. I am sure it will not serve Nolini-da's purpose.
I said to him: "You could have sent Suniti to Nolini-da. He has been waiting for the book and you promised to send it."
He said: "Well, I am sorry."
Then I went to Medhananda and got four different books entitled The Biographies of Eminent Scientists. Nolini-da was exceedingly glad to have these books and said to me: "Chinmoy, there was a special purpose in my asking you to go to Sisir."
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun.
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
Amrita-da said to me: "Chinmoy, today you must type the birthday list for the Mother. She wanted it yesterday."
I said to Amrita-da: "Yesterday Champaklal-ji gave me two special messages to type for the Mother which he said were urgent."
"Chinmoy, don't involve me in your problems with Champaklal. I tell you, mine is much more important than his."
"Amrita-da, to be very frank with you, I have not yet had the opportunity of experiencing your anger, while I have had personal and impersonal, direct and indirect, experiences of our Champaklal-ji's divine outbursts. Therefore, I leave aside everything else whenever he asks me to do something for the Mother. True, I have experienced Champaklal-ji's divine outbursts, but I have also been inundated a good many times with his divine affection, love and concern."
"Chinmoy, you are not only right but also clever. You are a poet, but I can easily see that you could have become a good lawyer, too."
Around four o'clock I gave Amrita-da the birthday list, typed as neatly as possible. He said to me: "Chinmoy, yesterday you satisfied the Mother in Champaklal, today you are satisfying the Mother in me."
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun.
