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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Permanent and the Impermanent’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Glimpses from the Vedas and the Upanishads’, at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation and concert at Wagner College on Staten Island, NY, USA. Before leaving the room, Sri Chinmoy draws a spontaneous Jharna-Kala in chalk on the blackboard.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 2,000 lbs. using a standing calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (23) on the world’s largest mechanical-action organ at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Immediately after Sri Chinmoy played the organ, he is interviewed in the organ console by David Rumsey, Chairman of the Department of Organ and Sacred Music at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and organist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (24) at Sydney Town Hall in Sydney, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy has his third meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Charman Lal Sharma, UNESCO Deputy Director-General for Management, in the garden tent at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (474) at Junior High School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Canada Peace-Blossom-Nation ceremony with Sri Chinmoy is attended by 300 members of parliament, national and local government officials, ambassadors and other guests at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 350 lbs. with each arm simultaneously — a total of 700 lbs at his home gym in Jamaica, New York, NY,USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (574) and his New Year’s Message for the year 2000, at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including champion powerlifter Precious Mckenzie, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ performance at Auckland Town Hall in Auckland, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his seventh and final lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Wisdom-Sun of Vedic Truth’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges – Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy dedicates a programme in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with the guest of honour and keynote speaker, Coretta Scott King, at the United Nations in New York.

The first Sri Chinmoy Invitational 5-Day Road Race begins at 8:22 a.m. at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy is at the starting line to offer a short meditation. There are 15 runners — 9 men and 6 women.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Frank Zane, 3-time Mr. Olympia and 3-time Mr. Universe at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,800 lbs. using a standing calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed live on the ‘Good Morning Melbourne’ TV show in Melbourne, Australia. After the interview, he is filmed lifting his own body weight, which is subsequently broadcast a few days later, on ‘The Today Show’, on December 1st.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a dedication and offers a silent meditation at the opening ceremony of the 7th World Veterans Games in Melbourne, Australia. His ‘World Veterans Games’ song is accepted as the official anthem of the Games and is performed by his students on this occasion.

Sri Chinmoy offers a second Peace Meditation at the British Parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy visits the four peace bridges and a few of the 27 peace trees established in recent months in Rhode Island, USA

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (444) — the 44th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (473) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates half his life living in the USA, in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also composes a song, entitled ‘Half-Life in Mother India’, for the occasion.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his fifth lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Song of the Infinite’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges — Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his sixth lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘Intuition-Light from the Vedas’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges — Smith College in Northampton, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about the English poet William Blake, in Room 550 of the United Nations, New York.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 300 English poems from Europe-Blossoms in Jamaica, NY, USA. The songs are later published as Surrender-Lotus-Blossoms and Surrender-Rose-Blossoms. (It remains the most songs he ever composed in one day.)

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by CBS Radio about his weightlifting achievements.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins a project to lift 1,000 lambs as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. On his first lifting day, he lifts 100 three-month-old Romney Cross lambs (1-100) at the Agriculture Research farm in Whatawhata, New Zealand. Lifting four lambs at a time, he performs 25 lifts in less than one hour, for a total weight of 8,713 lbs.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including writers and artists, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love, Devotion and Surrender’, at the American International School in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy offers his second public esraj concert, to an audience of 500, at Calvary Church in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a talk entitled ‘I Thank You’ at the New York Ethical Cultural Society in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes the 5,000th poem, the 50th volume, in his Ten Thousand Flower-Flames poetry series in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 27-instrument performance and a 7-hour meditation called ‘Sri Chinmoy Thanksgiving Music Feast’ at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 2,039-lb. lift, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts farm animals, ‘Santa’, reindeer and sleigh in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (22) at Auckland Town Hall in Auckland, New Zealand. The recital is later released on a CD entitled Mountain-Aspiration and Fountain-Dedication.

Sri Chinmoy visits New Zealand for the first time and offered a Peace Concert (139) at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (443) — the 43rd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (472) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special weightlifting  programme, ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart: The Body’s Fitness-Gong and The Soul’s Fulness-Song’ at York College in Jamaica, NY, USA. He lifts nearly 100,000 pounds — 92,985 lbs. — in 33 separate feats of strength, including lifting numerous VIPs, like Joaquim Cruz, 1984 800m Olympic Gold medallist; Joe Franklin, TV Talk Show Host; Alfred Gerstl, President of Federal Council, Austria; Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, 5 x Mr. Universe; and Frank Zane, 3-time Mr. Olympia and 3-time Mr. Universe. To end the demonstration, he twice hoists his own body weight of 145 lbs. with a standing two-arm lift. After the weightlifting event, Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (549). A Jharna-Kala exhibition is simultaneously held at the venue.

Sri Chinmoy gives his first talk, entitled ‘The Song Universal’, at the United Nations, in the UN Church Centre in New York.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation at the United Nations Church Centre Chapel in tribute to former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who had passed away the previous day. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy 10-mile Race in New Canaan, Connecticut. His finishing time is 1:28:18; averaging a pace of 8:49 per mile.

Sri Chinmoy appears on the television show ‘The Way To Go’ hosted by Ormond Drake, Professor Emeritus, New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a medal from Robert Muller, UN Assistant Secretary-General, commemorating the 40th anniversary of UN, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Lori Bowen, NBC TV sports commentator, Ms. Olympia Competition, 1983 National Bodybuilding Champion, 1984 World Professional Bodybuilding Champion; and Mike Ashley, 1986 Mr. Universe, 1887 World Mixed Pairs Champion, 1987 Grand Prix Champion, at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song in tribute to the country of Sri Lanka.

Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for UN ambassadors and gives a piano performance at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a 31,000-lb. Dassault Mystere-Falcon 50 jet plane and 21 passengers, using a modified standing calf-raise machine, at Macarthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, Long Island, New York. Earlier, he lifted a 27,000-lb. jet plane.

Papua New Guinea is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including 4 members of the Hindu Heritage Endowment and its leader Bodhinatha Sadhaka, at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How To Conquer Doubt’, at the University of Dundee, in Dundee, Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy opens the first-ever ‘International Day of Thanksgiving’ celebration with a short meditation, at the United Nations in New York. The event includes multi-lingual performances by representatives of several different nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation and concert at the High School of Art and Design, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Arthur J. Ranasinghe, Minister of State for Information, Sri Lanka, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, and gives a private esraj performance at the Presidential Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (442)— the 42nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — performing on 150 instruments in a total of 13 hours, 40 minutes, in six sessions that included brief intermissions, at Public School 117 in Briarwood, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy offers talks at the beginning and end of the performance for an additional 33 minutes. The total time of the function is 14 hours, 15 minutes.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (471) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. (more than double his bodyweight of 145 lbs.), using only one arm, 100 times in 3 minutes, 44 seconds in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Shashi Tripathi, Consul General of India in New York City, at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy gives his first harpsichord concert; and sings and plays 46 Bengali songs from memory, one for each year of his life, as a ‘Thanksgiving’ offering in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,515¼ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts members of the diplomatic community, including H.E. Andre Erdos, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN; H.E. Masamichi Hanabusa, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan to the USA; and Igor Korchilov, interpreter for President Mikhail Gorbachev, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (284) at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (318) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Michal Kováč, the first President of Slovakia, and gives a private cello performance at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. The President and his wife also hold the Peace Torch with Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (383) at the Kulturne Centrum in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy attends an exhibition of his Soul-Bird drawings at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan USA, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 145 lbs. (the equivalent of his body weight) with one arm, 100 times in 1 minute 33 seconds in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by CNN Radio about his weightlifting achievements.

Sri Chinmoy honours the 50th Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Higher Worlds’, at Kings College, Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK.

Sri Chinmoy writes 50 plays in 8 days in Jamaica, NY, USA

Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous animals (a miniature ‘zoo’), Madal Press, scuba divers, windsurfers, English Channel swimmers, live turkeys and ‘pilgrims’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a special Thanksgiving Message in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (470) at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, the first of 50 concerts in honour of the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence, in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (573); and also presents the U Thant Peace Award to Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy first visits China, staying for almost 3 months, travelling throughout the country.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 200 Bengali songs from his 4-volume poetry series Pole-Star Promise-Light, part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 in 4 hours, taking only a 10-minute intermission after each group of 50 songs, at Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group at the United Nations hold an evening programme and concert in soulful remembrance of the late President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, marking fourteen years since the day of his assassination.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Annam Brahma...Tumi Pushti Tumi’.

Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the Canadian National Bodybuilders Championship Show in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (382) at the Športová Hala Pasienky in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (397) at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts five helicopters — weighing 1300 lbs., 1794 lbs., 1900 lbs., 2410 lbs. and 3205 lbs. — in five separate lifts, using a modified standing calf-raise machine, at Ellington Airport in Ellington, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy speaks on ’Our Path’ to the members of the newly-formed London Centre, in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. To conclude, Sri Chinmoy accompanies himself on harmonium as he sings a few of his Bengali songs. As Sri Chinmoy leaves the auditorium, he stops by a blackboard and draws a small Jharna-Kala. It is his first drawing in chalk.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (87) at Kitsilano High School in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (317) at Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates with members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team near the ‘Smile of the Beyond’ Vegetarian Diner, on Parsons Blvd. in Queens, before they run the New York City Marathon.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-1996), at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (525) at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts members of the Harlem Gospel Choir in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mark Malloch Brown, UN Deputy Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the UN Millennium Hotel in New York, NY, USA.