May 16
A chrysanthemum flower is named ‘The Honourable Sri Chinmoy’ by Frank J. Longo, Mayor of Bristol, in Bristol, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Success-Height’, in the Oxford Union Debating Hall at Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at Cathedral Church of the Saviour in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Listen to the CD...
Sri Chinmoy receives the Nehru Medallion from UNESCO.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at Il Saggiattore in Rome, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Palazzo Colonna in Rome, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Pilgrim of Peace Award from Gianfranco Costa, President and Founder of the International Centre for Peace among Peoples of Assisi, at Palazzo Colonna in Rome, Italy.
Sri Lanka is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Medal of Friendship from President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of Mongolia, at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
May 9
Invitation to Meditate
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations, New York
Dear seekers, every Friday we meditate in one of the conference rooms here, and offer our aspiration to the soul of the United Nations. I wish to invite the United Nations members who are present today to come and meditate with us. This meditation is not only for the United Nations but for the world at large. This meditation is for the God-lover and the man-lover. If we really love God, and if we really love mankind and consciously believe that we are responsible for mankind, then we feel that our aspiration and dedication to the soul of the United Nations and our Inner Pilot is of paramount importance.
Please feel that it is your own aspiration that will expedite the vision for the United Nations. And when the vision is transformed into reality, the Inner Pilot will know our contribution whether or not the world ever recognises it. Our contribution, which is our aspiration, cannot be measured by money-power or any kind of world-power. It can be measured only by God’s Love-power, His Concern-power, His Confidence-power.
Published in Union-Vision.
Sri Chinmoy answers questions
at the United Nations in New York
Question: How does the Supreme see the United Nations?
Sri Chinmoy: The Supreme sees the United Nations as a thoughtful experience and a soulful hope.
Question: What is the supreme role of each individual nation vis-à-vis the United Nations?
Sri Chinmoy: The supreme role of each individual nation is to maintain a genuine faith in the United Nations and implicitly abide by the United Nations Charter.
Question: On what principles should the United Nations be unyielding and uncompromising?
Sri Chinmoy: When ignorance wants to lord it over the United Nations, naturally the soul of the United Nations cannot and will not surrender or compromise.
Published in My Meditation-Service at the United Nations for Twenty-Five Years
May 20
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Has Your Soul a Special Mission?’ – the seventh in a Spring series of classes on Yoga – at the home of Mrs. Ruth Moseley in Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘O Kurt Waldheim’ about the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981).
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘On a Birthday’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano performance at Mozarthalle in Mannheim, Rosengarten, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy hoists a 200-pound weight overhead, using only his right arm, to celebrate Congressman Gary Ackerman’s success in reducing his weight from 300 to 200 pounds. The New York Congressman, who had been invited to open the Sri Chinmoy 1,000-Mile Race in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York, is there to personally witness the lift.
An article about Sri Chinmoy presenting the U Thant Peace Award to environmentalist Maurice Strong is published in the New York-based weekly, Asia Online No. 123, Vol. II.
Sri Chinmoy receives an invitation from Lester Kurtz, Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, to be presented with the ‘Peace Educator’ award at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jamaica, West Indies, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy answers a question from Steve Finley, Major League baseball player with the Arizona Diamondbacks, at The Smile of the Beyond luncheonette in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts university professors at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts university professors at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Ulaanbaatar Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
May 19
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God and Truth’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre at the United Nations in New York, NY.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, featuring ‘United Nations: the Heart-Home of the World-Body’, is opened at the United Nations in Geneva.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (4) at the Sheraton-Washington Hotel in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (105) together with a piano performance (11) at the Kongresshalle in Augsburg, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (339) — the first of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth — in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read Sri Chinmoy’s remarks following the concert.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Lutece Art Exhibition at the Town Hall in Paris, France.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s participation in a special ceremony for world peace on 23 March 1996, prior to the Rome Marathon, is published in the Italian-language daily newspaper America Oggi (America Today) in Westwood, NJ, USA.
Malta is the first country in the world to be declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts guitarist and singer Richie Havens and santoor master Shivkumar Sharma at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a total weight of 1,000 lbs. with two arms from a seated position, at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 white horses and 15 Mongolian children at Hotel Mongolia in the Gachuurt Area, Mongolia.
May 18
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano performance at the Novotelhalle in Freiburg, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of the 78th Birthday of Pope John Paul II, at the Church of Santa Maria in Campo Santo in Vatican City.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Bleecker Street Theatre in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, arranged by Dr. G. Mend-Ooyo, President of the 26th World Congress of Poets and President of the Mongolian Lecture Academy of Culture and Poetry, who also offers Sri Chinmoy the Pegasus Literature Award at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
May 17
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, featuring ‘United Nations: the Heart-Home of the World-Body’, a painting dedicated to the UN opens at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best 5 km time of 22:12, coming second in his age group, at Greenport, NY, USA. He completes his first mile in 6 min. 35 sec.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 230¼ lbs. using only his right arm in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs his first double-dumbbell lift — a two-arm lift of 130 lbs. with both arms simultaneously — a total of 260 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a woodwind concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Pope John Paul II on the eve of the Holy Father’s birthday (18 May) at Sala Clementina in The Vatican, Vatican City.
Ecuador and Georgia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nations.
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Jan Eliasson, President of the UN General Assembly, who is also lifted – New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is honoured at the opening ceremony of his Jharna-Kala exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Union of Mongolian Artists (UMA) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is presented with the union’s highest award by Vice Chairman, Mr. P. Tsegmid — the first time the award had been given to a foreigner.
May 9
Sri Chinmoy calls from a payphone after a concert at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
May 9
Sri Chinmoy visits the home of Alexandr Razvin in New York, which is decorated with photos and original Jharna-Kala paintings.
May 10
In early May 1979, Sri Chinmoy and his disciples practised cycling mornings and evenings in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, in training for the Pepsi-Cola Bicycle Marathon. After cycling, Sri Chinmoy would usually hold a short meditation and, at times, deliver short prayer-messages.
In You, in Me
My Sovereign Lord, I and my life are two tiny drops. You and Your Compassion are two vast oceans.
In me Your Heart, Your Soul and Your Heaven-Existence are struggling. In You my heart, my soul and my earth-existence are blossoming.
7:40 a.m.
Published in O My Pilot Beloved
Only Two Things
My Lord Supreme, I feel I need many things to please You. Do You agree?
“No, My child, I do not agree. You need only two things: a heart of obedience and a life of sincerity.
"Your heart of obedience will perfect the human in you. Your life of sincerity will fulfil the divine in you.
“My child, you need only two things, only two things, only two things.”
7:32 p.m.
Published in O My Pilot Beloved
Sri Chinmoy applauds the finishers in the Sri Chinmoy 7-Day Race on a rainy day at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York.