April 24
Sri Chinmoy cooks a special prasad for his disciples to celebrate his 1,400-lb. seated calf-raise lift at his home in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
April 24
Sri Chinmoy posts a time of 1:07:16 in the 7-mile Sri Chinmoy Race held at Rockland State Park, NY.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the Self-Transcendence Six and Ten Day Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy’s Race Prayer
at the 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in New York
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Published in My Race-Prayers, part 2
April 24
The March Past on Darshan Day at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. The photograph shows a sixteen-year-old Chinmoy Kumar Ghose at the front-left of the line.
A bridge connecting Central Falls and Cumberland in Rhode Island, USA, is dedicated as the first ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom’ in the world. Two measured one-mile courses are also dedicated as Sri Chinmoy Peace-Miles.
April 23
A MEETING OF THE SPIRIT ... AND THE BODY AS WELL
New York — It was a real meeting of the spirit ... and the body as well... April 23 when Sri Chinmoy lifted into the air Pir Vilayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order in the West, as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme.“When two rivers meet, it becomes a place of pilgrimage,” Pir Vilayat said. “So this hall has become a place of pilgrimage.”' The lift took place at Columbia University.
After being lifted the Sufi leader said: “I’ve learned to trust myself in the hands of Sri Chinmoy.” Then he added, “Sri Chinmoy did to my body what he is doing to my heart — lifting it up.”
Sri Chinmoy replied: “Your greatness and your goodness I shall forever and forever treasure.”
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 18, April-July 1989
At the event, Pir Vilayat Khan said:
“It is a very special, very rare thing to find a genuine representative of spirituality. This is what we feel in the presence of Sri Chinmoy — authenticity.”
April 23
Sri Chinmoy hosts actress Susan Sarandon at Pilgrim-Museum, which houses a special collection of his Jharna-Kala artworks, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
April 23
Actress Susan Sarandon is honoured by Sri Chinmoy with a song he composed for her, called ‘Susan Sarandon A Sea-Deep Heart’, at Aspiration-Ground in New York.
April 23
Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with Buddhist monk Luang Por Eed (Paramarthatita), at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
April 23
Sri Chinmoy holds his first public meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Arise! Awake!’, at Columbia University in New York.
April 23
Sri Chinmoy lifts Susan Sarandon, Academy Award-winning actress, social and political activist, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
“It strengthens and moves me to know that in this garden of unexpected peace and hope ... you people are doing what you are doing. I thank you for this great honour.” — Susan Sarandon