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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Power, Occult Power and Will Power’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Heaven-Vision and Earth-Reality’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of spiritual questions.

Sri Chinmoy gives two short inspirational talks, entitled ‘Possibility-seed’ and ‘Sorrow’, during meditations held at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Achievement’, at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Choice’, at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is honoured by his disciples at a special function celebrating his completion of 2,000 Bengali songs two days earlier, on January 26th.

Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from the Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar.

Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Trinity Church in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Harvard University at Memorial Church in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with his west-coast disciples during a stop-over at Los Angeles Airport on his way back from Bali to New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Shimin Bunka Hall, Kagoshima, Japan. It is the 16th of 50 concerts Sri Chinmoy dedicates to the 50th anniversary of India’s Independence.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Canada Award.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘With Me, In Me, For Me’, at the Orchid Garden Hotel, in Brunei Darussalam.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Love Me or Hate Me, but Don’t Ignore Me’, in Puerto Rico.

The first issue of Meditation at the United Nations Bulletin is published in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is presented with a trophy by Connecticut’s Mayor Frederick P. Lenz.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function to celebrate Australia Day (Jan. 26th) at the United Nations in New York. The guest of honour is Ambassador Ralph L. Harry, the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy is a guest on The First Estate, broadcast on NBC-TV in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a 94-pound dumbbell overhead from the ground — ‘clean and press‘ — using only his right arm, in New York, NY, USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy ‘Rainbow Marathon’ is held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The event will be held on the 27th of each month.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, at her offices in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Leticia Ramos Shahani, national senator for the Philippines, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and sister of President Ramos; and also meets with Shyamala Cowsjk, Ambassador of India to the Philippines, at the Manila Hotel in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi at City Hall in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Sri Chinmoy is introduced by the Mayor of Pietermaritzburg, Omar Latiff, with opening remarks given by Ela Gandhi, Member of Parliament and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the Sun Royal Hotel in  Kagoshima, Japan.

Mt. Fuji Summit is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Marriott Hotel in Cancún, Mexico.

The Brazilian newspaper, Correio Braziliense (Brazilian Mail), reports that the ‘Peace Run’ inspired by Sri Chinmoy, runs 500 kilometres to honour the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil — the run ending at the Temple of Good Will in the capital, Brazilia.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 11 millionth Soul-Bird drawing, in Brasilia, Brazil.

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

Sri Chinmoy composes songs for the Mother — Janani Mirar — and for Sri Aurobindo — Jaya Bhagaban Sri Aurobindo — while looking at the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s portraits in the main meditation hall at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Read Si Chinmoy’s comments...

Sri Chinmoy racewalks the morning 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in Bali, Indonesia. At the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a special prayer.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Journey’s Start, the Journey’s Close’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Idea and Ideal; The Real and the Eternal’, at the United Nations in New York.

An exhibition of 60 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Toronto-Dominican Bank in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert, together with a Jharna-Kala exhibition, at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Sri Chinmoy composes Chalbo Ami Parama Pita, which at the time was designated as his 2,000th Bengali song.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 3,000th Bengali song, Ami Chinmoy Chira Tanmoy.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree from Dwijendra University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Philippines Cultural Centre, dedicated to President Aquino, in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Myanmar Award.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Power’, at the Luther I. Bonney Hall, University of Maine, in Orono, ME, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Time’, at the Happy Valley Common Room, Marlboro College, in Marlboro, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Muhammad Ali for the first time in Puerto Rico, and then attends one of his training sessions. At the time of the meeting, the legendary boxer was the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist, and the world heavyweight champion 1964-67 and 1974-75.

Sri Chinmoy meets with tennis champion Yannick Noah at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Can Have Peace’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 5,000th Bengali song, Tumi Karunar Sindhu Ami Eshanar Bindu, in Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President of Indonesia B.J. Habibie at an official state function in the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Brazil is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at a commemorative ceremony held by the Minister of Sports and Tourism Rafael Greca de Maceda, and other government officials, at the Parliament of Good Will in Brasilia, Brazil.

East Timor is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about meditation and answers 36 questions on the topic at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The Steve Powers Show’ on WMCA-AM Radio in New York, NY, USA. Listen to the interview...

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centre De Réadaptation in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy completes 100 Indian stories in 19 days, later published a Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace: Tomorrow’s Blossoming Smile’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

The Dharma Vidya Bhavan Garden is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy meets With Emilio C. Macias II, Governor of Negros Oriental Province, in Dumaguete, the Phillipines.

Sri Chinmoy composes his song, ‘Bhulite Diyona Tomar Charan’.

Sri Chinmoy holds a 4-hour meditation for the completion of his poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants and begins a new poetry challenge, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sheraton Bandung Hotel in Bandung, Indonesia.

Indonesia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, with the inauguration ceremony held at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Indonesia Award.

Burkina Faso is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Australia Award, dedicated by Federal Member of Parliament Trish Worth.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 11,000th Bengali song Tumi Amar Sneher Putul Amar Ranjana.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

A library wing holding 2,400 of Sri Chinmoy’s books is dedicated in a ceremony at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Sri Chinmoy speaks about ‘The Future of the Marathon’, just two days after finishing the Orange Bowl Marathon in Miami, Florida, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the 1974 Annual Mentor Poetry Award from the North American Mentor magazine for his poem ‘O Bird of Light’.

Sri Chinmoy writes 8 more Indian stories (88-95), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

Teide National Park, which includes Mount Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy National Peace Park, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, at which King of the Zulu Nation HRH Goodwill Kabhekuzulu Zwelithini delivers the welcome address, in City Hall, Durban, South Africa. The King unveils the plaque declaring Durban a Sri Chinmoy Peace Metropolitan Area, which is presented by the Acting Mayor, Councillor Panday, and the Chairperson of the Metropolitan Executive Council, Mr. Obed Mlaba. The City Hall also hosts an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks. Read more...

The Hungarian State Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy’s play about India’s greatest freedom-fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is performed for the first time. It is staged by Sri Chinmoy’s students in Kagoshima, Japan, on the day of Netaji’s Birth Centenary. Sri Chinmoy originally wrote the play in Bengali in 1948 at the age of just sixteen. In November 1996, he translated it into English.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in observance of the Birth Centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — India’s legendary revolutionary leader and hero — at the Sun Royal Hotel in Kagoshima, Japan.

The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with the President of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy completes his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of India Award.

In a short talk to his students, given at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Sri Chinmoy encourages them to train for a marathon and announces his wish to have a public marathon with the goal of 700 participants. (On 30 August 2002, the first Self-Transcendence Marathon takes place at Rockland Lake State Park in Congers, New York, attracting over 700 runners. It becomes an annual event. Watch the video of the first race...)

Sri Chinmoy begins writing this collection of 50 meditative aphorisms — Fifty Oneness-Heart-Songs of a Perfect God and a Perfect Child — in China, during a bus ride from Xi'an to Huangshan, and he finishes it the same day upon his arrival in Huangshan, China.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at a dinner hosted and attended by HRH Daulat Tuanku, the Sultan of Pahang, in Kuantan, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on WRVR’s ‘Connections’ programme in Connecticut, USA. 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Experience’, in the Commons Room, Graduate School, at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled  ‘The Heart’, in David Rittenhouse Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes 7 more Indian stories (81-87), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Orange Bowl Marathon in a time of 5:33:33, in Miami, FL, USA.

Loro Parque is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Park, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Sri Chinmoy presents the park with a commemorative award bearing his ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings. After the inauguration, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of wide-ranging questions.

The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport is inaugurated at Reina Sofia International Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Hubert Reynolds, Professor of Peace Studies at Silliman University, at the South Seas Resort Hotel in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of Faleolo International Airport as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport in Apia, Western Samoa. Representing the Western Samoa Airport Authority at the ceremony is the airport manager Etuale Sefo.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (402) — the 2nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Maui Lu Hotel in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Asunción, Paraguay. His time is 39:49.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to his students, entitled ‘Only Friend, Best Friends, Fair-weather Friends’, at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy speaks about his days as a champion athlete in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Poficherry, India, during an afternoon function with his students in Xi’an, China.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 orphans from Tengku Ampuan Fatimah Orphanage, at the Awana Kijal Golf Resort in Terengganu, Kuantan, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Quintessence of Mysticism’, at the American University, Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers the first of seven lectures, entitled ‘Spiritual Power, Occult Power and Will Power’, at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for the third UN Secretary-General U Thant (22 Jan. 1909 – 25 Nov. 1974), at the United Nations in New York for the anniversary of his birth.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Zenon Rossides of Cyprus for the first time, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy writes 4 more Indian stories (78-80) and (81), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 4 and part 5.

Sri Chinmoy holds a 13-hour meditation and plays 86 instruments — first session 63 instruments, second session 23 instruments — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Kartika Plaza Hotel in Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Bali, Indonesia, renames its ocean-facing gates the Sri Chinmoy Peace Gateway.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 people in 90 minutes, a total weight of 8,018 pounds, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Library is inaugurated at the Biblioteca Publica Municipal-Tomas de Iriarte, in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, Spain. Also, the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Beach is inaugurated at Playa Coronella at Puerto de la Cruz; and the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace House at the Casa de Los Balcones (House of the Balconies) in Orotava is inaugurated.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Silliman University, in Dumaguete the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in Stade Pater, the national stadium, in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. His time for 100 metres is 15.29, and his time for 200 metres is 34.03.

Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Durban, South Africa. His finishing time is 21:02.

Sri Chinmoy tours Phoenix Settlement, where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, led by his granddaughters Ela Gandhi and Sita Dhupelia, in Durban, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Junshin Joshi Catholic Girls School in Kagoshima, Japan.

The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Merida, Yucatan,  Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Mexico, Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, at his official residence in Los Pinos, Mexico City, where he receives the ‘Heart of Gold’ award from the Society of Lyricists and Composers. The Society has some 30,000 members, and up to now, the award has only been given to Pope John Paul II, Tenor Plácido Domingo, singer-lyricist and producer John Gabriel and the Director General of the WIPO Agency of the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 people at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk entitled ‘Our Philosophy’, at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort, in Kijal, Malaysia.

The Senate of Puerto Rico unanimously passes a proclamation to honour Sri Chinmoy’s visit to the Senate floor, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy is a guest at the half-hour interfaith prayer service on the morning of President Carter’s inauguration, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, USA. Seventy of Sri Chinmoy’s students were asked to assist as official ushers at the inauguration ceremony. They wear distinctive coloured blazers — girls, pink and boys, blue — that were specially designed and made by the Centre for the occasion.

At Sri Chinmoy’s request, the first Inspiration Marathon is held at 6:00 a.m. — in subfreezing conditions — in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Thirty-six runners compete in the impromptu event and even Sri Chinmoy, still recovering from running injuries, completes the first 13 miles and then another few miles near the finish.

Sri Chinmoy’s prerecorded interview is broadcast on NBC’s television programme ‘The First Estate’ in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 3,081¾ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy runs the final lap — in the Olympic Stadium in Athens — of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Marathon relay held on Pheidippides’ original marathon route from Marathon to Athens in Greece.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jean Juventin, President of the French Polynesian Parliament, in Papeete, Tahiti.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at L’Assemblée Territoriale, Papeete, Tahiti.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughters Ela Gandhi and Sita Dhupelia at the Holiday Inn, at South Beach, in Durban, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy visits the Sri Ramakrishna Centre at Glen Anil in Durban, South Africa.

The Mexican daily newspaper Diario Del Sureste (Southeast Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Merida, Yucatan, and other peace initiatives.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Palace in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Corazón de Oro (Heart of Gold) Award for his “great altruistic service in the cause of world peace,” from the Society of Authors and Music Composers, Mexico, at the society’s headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico. Sri Chinmoy also composes the song ‘Corazon de Oro’.

The town of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, India, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Taman Werdhi Budaya Art Centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Presidential Medallion, Indonesia’s highest award “for service to humanity” by Vice President Hamzah Haz at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Shangri-La Golden Flower Hotel in Xi’an, China.