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Sri Chinmoy visits the island of Caja de Muertos, an hour’s boat ride from Ponce in Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ellis Clark, President of Trinidad and Tobago, at the Presidential Palace in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hotel Suisse in Casablanca, Morocco.

Sri Chinmoy visits Borneo for the first time and stays at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo.

Sri Chinmoy begins his ‘Dream-Freedom-Peace-Birds’ (Soul-Bird drawings) at the Mistra Village Hotel in St. Paul’s Bay, Malta. He will go on to complete over 16 million of these ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in his lifetime.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Honourable Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Western Samoa, at the Office of the Prime Minister in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the ‘Chairman Monk’ — Venerable Sayadaw Baddanta Thawfita, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the State Sangha Mahanayaka Committee of Myanmar — at the Kaba Aye Pagoda compound in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit in honour of the Harare diplomatic community, at the Meikles Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Computers, e-mail and Spirituality’, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Self-Assertion says, “I Know, I Know, I Know”,’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy completes Aghater Par Aghat Karechhe Dharanir Anyai, his 10,000th Bengali song, at the Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a special musical performance at which he lifts 40 people, including 38 monks from Ounalom Pagoda, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Key to the City of San Juan from Mayor Carlos Romero Barceló at City Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Ateneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The first exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens during a special Christmas Week celebration at the Unitarian Church in Hollis, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy conducts a public meditation at the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed with the Miami Herald after a public meditation at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School in Florida, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘Hawaii Health Line’, Radio K108, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Club de Viña in Viña del Mar, Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people, including Nissim Ezekial, Father of Post-Independence Indian Verse in English, at the Regional Language Centre in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy has a reunion with Lakhan Mehrotra, India’s High Commissioner to the UN and former Consul General of India to New York during Sri Chinmoy’s employment at the Indian Consulate in the mid-1960s, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of the Valletta Museum of Fine Arts as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Museum of Fine Arts, in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy personally inaugurates a Sri Chinmoy Peace Plane at Luqa International Airport, Luqa, Malta. After the ceremony, he takes a 30-minute flight in the plane.

Sri Chinmoy attends the dedication ceremony of the Mekong Delta as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom is held at the Mekong Delta in Tan An, Long An Province, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100 metres (time, 15.10 seconds) and the 200 metres (time, 33.41 seconds) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held on a 400-metre dirt track in Apia Park, Apia, Western Samoa. There, Sri Chinmoy also meets with the Hon. Pule Lameko, Minister of Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs of Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes more than 800,000 (800,692) Soul-Birds at Hotel Kitano Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa — just under two years since he began the series of drawings, in Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the grave of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 59 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy gives a television interview on WKAQ, Channel 2, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation and message for 1975, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy directs three disciple singing groups to learn and perform fifty short Bengali songs he had composed during the months of October or November 1977. The songs are later published in Journey's Goal, part 10a.

Sri Chinmoy composes ‘E Jibane Jadi’ at Utano Youth Hostel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Teatro De La Cantv in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Oita Ken Seishonen Kaikan in Beppu, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

The world’s fastest passenger ferryboat — the San Frangisk, which can travel up to 40 knots an hour, and normally plies between Malta and Sicily — is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Ship.

Sri Chinmoy receives a message on behalf of all members of the Maltese Parliament, declaring Sri Chinmoy as an ‘International Emissary of Peace’ and ‘Ambassador of Peace for Malta’, presented by the Speaker of the House, Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, at the Peace Run Opening Ceremony in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy launches a Peace Run at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City's Thong Nhat Stadium. Thirty local Vietnamese runners join the core team of Peace Runners in two laps around the stadium carrying the flaming Peace Torch just before the start of a major soccer match.

Sri Chinmoy completes 20,025 Soul-Bird drawings in one day — bringing his all-time total to 789,754 — at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa. Meanwhile, a ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Strait’, between Samoa and another island, is dedicated.

Sri Chinmoy and his students attend ‘The Magic Circus of Samoa’ — the first all-Samoan circus — in Apia, Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 46 people including 126-year-old great-great-grandmother Somo Santono, believed to be the world’s oldest living woman, as part of a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ateneo de Madrid, Salon de Actos, in Madrid, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy gives interviews on Sri Lanka National TV and meets with Bradman Weerakoon, President’s Advisor on International Relations, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Chinmoy completes 21,466 Soul-Bird drawings in one day — bringing his all-time total to 769,729 — at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa. His previous highest total was 21,220, which he had achieved just six days earlier (20 December).

Sri Chinmoy visits Robben Island in South Africa, where he meditates and offers a soulful prayer in the prison cell President Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years.

Sri Chinmoy makes a soulful pilgrimage to Renko-ji Temple in Suginami-ku Ward, Tokyo, Japan, where the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, India’s freedom fighter, are kept.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Catedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Sopheap, Chief Monk of Ponna-Kkettaram Pagoda at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts The Most Venerable Tep Vong, Supreme Patriarch of Maha Nikaya Order of Buddhist Monks. As well, he receives the Light of Lord Buddha Award from the Supreme Patriarch Udnalorm Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Christ’s College Chapel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private organ recital at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Jon Hellerman, world-renowned triathlete coach; and Dr. Roddy Kirkwood, climber of Mt. Everest, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 52 people from the Gadja Mada University Marching Band at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts HRH Daulat Tuanku, Sultan of Pahang State, King of Malaysia, 1979-1984, and Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom at the VIP State House in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy spends his first Christmas Day in America at the apartment of his friends Sam Spanier and Eric Hughes in Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a Christmas celebration at the United Methodist Church of Port Washington in Port Washington, NY, USA, where 200 of his published books are displayed.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas night at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Caguas, Puerto Rico, about twenty miles inland from the capital San Juan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy composes 13 songs dedicated to the Christ at Hotel Melia in Torremolinos, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including Luang Por Eed, Abbot of Wat Khao Takiab, in Wat Khao Takiab, Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, at the Ministry of Culture in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the French Cultural Exchange Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas Day and gives a talk, entitled ‘Preserve Silence, Silence, Silence’, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also reads stories about the Christ and Confucius related to the theme of ‘silence’.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, attended by Regional Governor Hasyim Afandi, at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

The day before Christmas, Sri Chinmoy writes twenty-two poems in honour of Jesus Christ. The poems are later published in his book, Brother Jesus.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special Christmas Eve function at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Flushing, Queens, NT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes 20 songs, setting music to the words of the Christ.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy continues to practice with oversized shot puts each morning at a beachside park in Honolulu, HW, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with R. Dayakar, Consul General of India in Vietnam, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu, at the Bluestar Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy completes 8,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings at Viva Clarion Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (608) at the National Theatre in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy comments on a painting of Jesus Christ displayed in the function room of the Inter-Continental Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Christmas Eve.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Paduka Paku Alam of Yogyakarta at Keraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Faouzi Skali, founder of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music 2001, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy plays one of his own compositions on the piano at a classical music recital, held at the Unitarian Church in White Plains, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled  ‘I Shall Not Accept Defeat’, during a Christmas Trip in Miami, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (89) at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago, Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Chira Pongdaiboon, Lord Mayor of Hua Hin, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Alexandria, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Censu Tabone, President of Malta, and Mrs. Tabone, followed by Sri Chinmoy offering a Peace Concert (289) for invited guests, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Edward Fenech-Adami, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mai Ling, Viet Nam’s top female sprinter, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation to commemorate the anniversary of his beloved dog Kanu's passing, held on the back lawn of the Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Western Samoa, during a torrential downpour. Also, the same day, Sri Chinmoy draws a special Soul-Bird artwork for Kanu, which takes him 5 hours and 15 minutes to complete.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre, 200-metre and 2-mile races at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Greenpoint Stadium, Cape Town, in South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Uma Meshtri, great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (451) at City Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Virak Prom, Director of International Affairs, Cambodian National Assembly; and Sry Tamarang, International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at San Cristobal Fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Australia, Do Have My Indian Heart!’.

Sri Chinmoy meets with José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Residence in Los Pinos in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Antonio Caldera, former President of Venezuela, at President Caldera’s office in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (143) and organ recital (26) at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

At a morning shot put session, at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sri Chinmoy displays the ten shot puts — with weights of 6, 8, 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, 35, 40 and 50 lbs. — with which he has been practising.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former Senator Hiram Fong at the Senator Fong Plantation and Gardens in Kaneohe, Oahu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (388) at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes 700,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (400) at the Royal Nepal Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, (477) attended by Reverend Mitsuo Sato, Head Priest of Kotoku-in Temple, at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio at the Office of the Archbishop, at Cathedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (553) at Orchard Parade Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and Bun Rany Hun Sen, First Lady of Cambodia, preceded by a 30-minute private meeting and followed by a live televised ceremony sent to 126 countries, at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a symbolic gesture, the Prime Minister also holds the Peace Torch.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Lydia Bradley, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; and Guy Cotter, two-time Mt. Everest climber, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people and was named an Honorary Fellow of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta (Solo), at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy tells ten stories to his students while on a Christmas trip in Qingdao, China.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’, at the Aum Centre Inc., 659 Miramar Avenue, in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers his New Year’s Message for 1974 with an evening programme of meditation and music at Hunter College in New York City, NY, USA, to an audience of 1,500 people. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary marathon coach Kiyoshi Nakamura at Jingu Gaien Park in Tokyo, Japan. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Enrique Tierno Galvan, Mayor of Madrid, at the Mayor’s offices in Madrid, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Aye Aye Myint-u, daughter of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, and her family, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (288) at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Malietoa Tanumafili II, Head of State of Western Samoa, at the Head of State residence in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (288) at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

Langtang II mountain in the Himalayas is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Mountain at an inauguration ceremony in Nagarkot, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (577) at the Sheraton Rio Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the 5th of 13 concerts dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 people at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets music to 99 English poems from Transcendence-Perfection in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura on his second visit (the first being on 23 October 1969) at the Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Vinay Verma, Ambassador of India to Thailand, Permanent Representative of India to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for Asia and the Pacific, son of Sri Chinmoy’s English teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (211) at the Cairo Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy trains with over-sized shot puts at a beachside park in Hawaii. The shot puts range in size from 6 to 50 lbs.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (287) dedicated to President Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, where he receives the Gold Medallion for International Service to Peace, from Constantin Spiteri, Head of Culture, Ministry of Education.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of Russia to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Bishopscourt official residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and (528) Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Hotel Barceló Del Lago in Panajachel, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Later, at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Sri Chinmoy meditates with a young Buddhist monk Sopheap, and then the two speak about their experiences at a war museum, as well as other subjects.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Xiamen Middle School Number 5 in Xiamen, China, where he meets with Mr. Xu, Minister of Education for Xiamen. 1,000 school children sing Sri Chinmoy’s composition ‘I Am A Great Chinese Boy, I Am A Good Chinese Girl’.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Thirty–Two Years I Lived in India’.