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Sri Chinmoy’s first Indian passport is issued by the Regional Passport Office in Madras, India.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy gives an inspirational talk, entitled ‘Hope’, about the late UN Secretary-General U Thant, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy’s students from his New Jersey Centre hold a 24-hour meditation for seekers, beginning at midnight, at a church in Flushing, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy visits at the end to lead a short meditation.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Sudhahota Carl Lewis for some coaching advice at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, Queens, New York, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his first meeting with United Nations Secretary-General U Thant.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality and Yoga of the Upanishads’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Heart-Peace of the United Nations’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Japanese School of New York in Fresh Meadows, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins meditations for members of the United States Congress, at the Rayburn Office Building in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a piano performance at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers two pipe organ recitals in Connecticut, USA. A morning recital is held at the First United Church of Christ Congregational in Milford. Sri Chinmoy then lifts his own body-weight of 155 pounds and is interviewed on The Fairfield Exchange, a Norwalk-based television show. Next comes an organ recital at Woolsey Hall at Yale University in New Haven, followed by an interview with the New Haven Register. The day ends with a television interview at the college station of the University of Bridgeport. Listen to the CD...

A two-week exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s original ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings is hosted at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to celebrate his 10th Piano Anniversary at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Slovakia is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (midday, an audience of 4,000 and evening, an audience of 4,000) at Sportova Hala Pasienky in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Wales is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Kiribati Award.

Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with President Gorbachev, presenting him with a special award ‘President Gorbachev: The Home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World’ in honour of his late wife Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at The Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow, Russia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Omar Zulfu Livaneli, Member of the Turkish Parliament and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God’s Compassion and the United Nations’ Dedication’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

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

Sri Chinmoy meets with world champion surfer Ian Cairns in the morning at ‘Flame-Waves’ restaurant in Perth, WA, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed at ‘Flame-Waves’ restaurant in the morning by a reporter from the Daily News and the article appears in the final edition of the newspaper on the same day in Perth, WA, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Anglican Dean of Perth Rev. John Cornish in the morning at St George’s Cathedral in Perth, WA, Australia. Their meeting is covered by The West Australian and an article appears in the newspaper the next day.

Sri Chinmoy has an afternoon meeting with Aboriginal poet Jack Davis in Perth, WA, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his first lecture in Australia, entitled ‘Aspiration’, in the evening at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, WA, Australia. It draws over 500 people and after seating space runs out, many seekers sit cross-legged on the floor.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and public meditation at Rockland Community College in Rockland, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Inner Wealth’, to a small gathering at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes an essay, entitled ‘Women’s Liberation and Oneness-Satisfaction’, which is subsequently read out at a function in honour of International Women’s Day, sponsored by ‘Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations’ on 9 March 1981, at the UN in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the Preparation-Cry-Smile concert in Jamaica, Queens, New York, prior to his concert tour of Germany.

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

Sri Chinmoy meets with Prince Sigvard and Princess Marianne Bernadotte of Sweden at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Michael Kovac, former President of Slovakia in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy offers his 1,000th Weightlifting Prayer before doing 60 one-arm pushes with 700 pounds, as part of his daily lifting practice at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is an honoured guest at President Gorbachev’s 70th Birthday Celebration held at the Grand Hotel Marriott in Moscow, Russia.

Sri Chinmoy places a wreath of 70 roses at Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva’s ‘Long Home’ in Moscow, Russia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Austria and the Heart of Russia awards.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 15th Piano Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

To celebrate the 17th anniversary of his piano playing, Sri Chinmoy gives a recital at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Real Joy’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers the first 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 meets with the Lord Mayor of Perth, the Right Honourable Ernest Lee-Steere, who arranges a reception at his chambers in Perth, WA, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mayor Charles Smith of Nedlands and plants a rose bush for world peace at the Nedlands Memorial Rose Gardens in Perth, WA, Australia. After the ceremony, Mayor Smith invites Sri Chinmoy back to his council chambers for refreshments.

Sri Chinmoy holds a lunchtime meditation at the Seekers’ Centre in Perth, WA, Australia. He gives a short talk and answers questions from the audience.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Philosophy, Spirituality and Yoga’, at the University of Western Australia in Perth, WA, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy runs his first marathon in a time of 4:31:34 at the Bidwell Classic in Chico, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Life of Blossoming Love’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Transcendence’, at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Saint Peter’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

The Czech Republic is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Liechtenstein Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 13,000 at the Sportovní Hala Sparta in Prague, Czech Republic.

Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at the Town Gallery in Trencin, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum from Guatemala at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity and Surety’, at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-control’, at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his first Dag Hammarskjöld lecture, entitled ‘Is the Spiritual Life an Escape from Reality?’, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously plays his first extemporaneous keyboard improvisation at Flame-Waves restaurant in Perth, WA, Australia. It later becomes Side A of the LP album, ‘Improvisations’.

Sri Chinmoy visits Yanchep National Park, north of Perth in Western Australia. There, Sri Chinmoy sees Australian marsupials for the first time. He delights in seeing the kangaroos and blesses one of the oldest koalas in the park, 17-year-old ‘Nobby’. Also at the park, Sri Chinmoy composes Bengali songs while seated beside the beautiful spring-fed lake, Loch McNess.

Sri Chinmoy creates seven acrylic Jharna-Kala paintings in Perth, Western Australia, which he presents to the Perth Centre. 

Sri Chinmoy departs Perth at 11 p.m. for a plane trip across the Australian continent to Sydney, the capital of the state of New South Wales, on the east coast.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Pray and We Meditate’, at the State University of New York in Albany, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Desiring Man, the Aspiring Man and the Self-giving Man’, at the Union College of Schenectady in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, CA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Unison Gallery in New Paltz, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and an exhibition of his artworks for President Gorbachev and Raisa Maximovna at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, NY, USA.

Hungary is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Danube Palace in Budapest, Hungary.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Köztársaság Square in Budapest, Hungary.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Finland Award.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and lifts special guest of honour UN Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York,  NY, USA.