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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Curiosity or Necessity’, at St. David’s College, University of Wales, in Lampeter, Wales, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation and concert at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the closing meditation at the International Yoga Teachers’ Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (86) at the Memorial Arena in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts the winner of the NY Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Bodybuilding Championship, ‘Best Built Man’, and receives an award from the association at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best in the West for the 12-lb. shot put with a distance of 9.21 metres in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch with Dr. Censu Tabone, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘The Saint-Bird in the Political Sky’, in tribute to the President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (441) — the 41st of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — in Labouisse Hall at UNICEF House in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (572) to an audience of 7,000, including Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, and his wife, as well as Member of Parliament Mac Harb, at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Sri Chinmoy’s concert is dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. Afterwards, Professor Laurence Ewasksho of the University of Ottawa presents Sri Chinmoy with the ‘Voice of Universal Music’ award on behalf of the University’s Music Department.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the World-Harmony-Pilgrim-Dream Concert for Peace at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 128th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s birth at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Universe’, at Keble College, Oxford University, in Oxford, UK.

Sri Chinmoy creates his first artwork in the West, marking the beginning of Jharna-Kala ‘Fountain-Art’, in room 233 at the Sheraton El Mirador Hotel, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Seattle Opera House in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts his own body weight of 156 lbs. overhead 100 times in 22 minutes, 43 seconds, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Kurt Masur, conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in his private office suite at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Teaching’, at Leeds University in Leeds, UK

Sri Chinmoy plants a young oak tree, as an offering to the soul of Canada, in Federal Parkland in Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. The tree is expected to live for another 250 years.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert at the Museum of Man in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Art is’ ,  at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 155 lbs. – equal to his own body weight – 24 times, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts various objects using the seated calf-raise: a refrigerator; 700 of his books; a Christmas tree; an ice cream cart; and nearly 500 pounds each of rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, onions and dal from Annam Brahma restaurant. He also used a standing calf-raise with an overhead platform for the first time, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (163) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves personal best throws in the West for 6-lb. shot put (12.22m) and 16-1b. shot put (8.41m) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Zina Garrison, three-time Grand Slam Mixed Doubles champion, 1988 Olympic Women’s Doubles gold medallist in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Prince Sigvard Bernadotte and Princess Marianne Bernadotte of Sweden in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 750 lbs. using a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Czech Republic is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a 22,185-lb. jet, using a modified standing calf-raise machine, at Macarthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds his annual New Year’s Meditation for the year 2001, and Peace Concert (603) at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 44 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Richard Gere, famous actor and founder of the Gere Foundation Supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Community-In-Exilel; and Nigel Fisher, Executive Director of the UN Office for Project Services, and UN Assistant Secretary-Genera, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Promise’, at Essex University in Colchester, Essex, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘The Beauty and Duty of India’s Soul’, at New York University, in New York, NY, USA

Sri Chinmoy delivers his fourth lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Rig Veda’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges, Barnard College, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,317¾-lb. lift using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a Jharna-Kala exhibit reception for diplomats and VIPs of the 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva at the Heritage Building in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the DC Armory to an audience of 10,000 in Washington, DC, USA. The concert is introduced by H.E. Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Ambassador of India to the United States.

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

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 14th year of his weightlifting by offering a Peace Concert, Jharna-Kala exhibition and ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart: The Body’s Fitness-Gong and The Soul’s Fulness-Song’ programme, where he lifts a total weight of 95,290 lbs. with 65 lifts in a single day.

• The morning session is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.

• The evening session is held at York College in Jamaica, New York.
Lifts include Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, five-time Mr. Universe, for the 12th time; Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis for the 4th time; Paula Newby-Fraser, eight-time female Ironman Triathlon Champion; and Steve Finley, three-time Golden Gloves Baseball Champion (the final lift of the evening, and last ever of the standing one-arm lifts).

Sri Chinmoy dedicates the physical fitness part of the programme to his elder brother Mantu Ghosh on the occasion of his 71st birthday. Read Sri Chinmoy’s conversation with Mahasamrat Bill Pearl.

Sri Chinmoy dedicates his retelling of 73 ancient Indian stories to his brother Mantu’s 73rd birthday. The stories later are published in several volumes of Life’s bleeding tears and flying smiles.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Anoushka Shankar, sitar player, composer, Grammy Award nominee, the first woman to perform at Ramakrishna Centre in Calcutta, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy cooks prasad in honour of his brother Mantu’s birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Army House Exhibit Space in Skopie, Macedonia.

Sri Chinmoy composes 34 short poems or aphorisms on spiritual words that are given to him by the disciples travelling with him on a bus ride from Montreal to Ottawa in Canada. They are later published in Light-Delight-Journeys.

Sri Chinmoy completes 16,031 Jharna-Kala paintings in 24 hours, at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer session for hostages in Iran at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best for the 22-lb. shot put of 6.32 metres in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mr. Ismael Abraao, Permanent Representative of Angola to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar, sitar player, and multiple Grammy Award winner; also lifted is his wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York. In the evening, Sri Chinmoy honours Ravi Shankar and his family at a gala event of music and plays performed by members of Sri Chinmoy Centre at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA

Sri Chinmoy lifts Sarvottama Tatyana Lebedeva, 2004 Olympic Long Jump gold medallist and 2004 Olympic Triple Jump bronze medallist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his third lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Inner Revelation-Fire’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges – Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy directs the publication of 51 new books within a 15-day period (1-15 November). The headquarters for the massive undertaking is Sri Chinmoy’s home in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA, where teams of his students work around the clock on the project.

A Jharna-Kala parade to celebrate Sri Chinmoy completing 100,000 paintings is held on Madison Ave. in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy and the U.N. Meditation Group observe the 20th anniversary of the opening of the U.N. Meditation Room, located in the General Assembly Lobby at the United Nations in New York. The programme opens with a short meditation in the ‘Room of Quiet’ and continues in Conference Room 4, with a special performance of six new songs written for the occasion by Sri Chinmoy, five of which are words of the four Secretaries-General set to music.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for the half-marathon, 13.1 miles, in a time of 1:55:24 in the Sri Chinmoy Half-Marathon at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (138) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

The Severn-Wye Bridge, uniting England and Wales, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Bridge in Aust, Southern Gloucestershire, England, UK.

President-elect Bill Clinton shakes hands with Sri Chinmoy during a meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. He thanks Sri Chinmoy for the gift of a song he had composed about him. The previous day, 14 November, Sri Chinmoy’s students sang the song as the President-elect was leaving the Governor’s Mansion for his morning jog.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (439) — the 39th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Public School 117 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts his own bodyweight of 145 lbs. with both arms simultaneously in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island at Beekman Towers Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Jesse Owens Humanitarian Award from the Jesse Owens Foundation, presented by the family of the legendary Olympic Track and Field gold medallist at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Yasser Seirawan, 1979 International Chess Grandmaster, and four-time US Chess Champion; and Narada Michael Walden, two-time Grammy Award winner and 1998 Best Producer of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Hinduism of Today’, at the Religious School, Central Synagogue of Nassau County, Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, NY USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Occultism’, at the American Centre for Arts in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his first lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Vedic Bird of Illumination’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges – Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his second lecture on the Vedas, entitled ‘The Glowing Consciousness of Vedic Truth’, at one of the Seven Sister colleges – Radcliffe College in Cambridge, MA, USA.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the open-air billboard exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 13' x 25' Jharna-Kala painting ‘Journey’s Battle Victory’, at the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. The billboard was installed on November 1st.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Jorge Illueca, Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Jersey Shore Marathon course (4:22:57) in Asbury Park, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (21) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (84) at Le Zénith in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (208) at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets John Major, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Ben Kingsley, Academy Award winner, at the observance of Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday, India’s first Prime Minister, at India House in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (283) at Docklands Arena in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy’s song about Bill Clinton is sung as he leaves the Governor’s Mansion for his morning run in Little Rock, AK, USA. Sri Chinmoy travelled there with a group of singers from New York specially to honour the US President-elect. 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Is Spirituality Man’s Birthright?’, at ‘Yoga of Westchester’, in New Rochelle, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How to Conquer Fear’, at the American College in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (20) at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, CA, USA, and meets with 110-metres hurdles world-record holder Renaldo Nehemiah.

Sri Chinmoy offers the first Peace Meditation for the Members of British Parliament; and meets with Lord Ennals, Speaker of the House of Commons, at the Palace of Westminster in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (83) at Alexandra Palace in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (254) and lifts 10 people, including Gabor Demszky, Mayor of Budapest at the Kongresszusi Központ in Budapest, Hungary.

Sri Chinmoy is invited for a tour of the House of Lords by Baroness Shreela Flather, the first Asian woman to become a British Peer of the Realm. He also meets with Members of Parliament Lord Desai, Lord Ennals and Keith Vaz, at the Palace of Westminster in London, UK.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Russell Rotunda, US Senate, in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (524) in Cardiff City Hall in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Finland is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Hesperia Park in Helsinki, Finland.

The union territory of Daman and Diu in India is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Jack Johnson, musician and filmmaker; and Robert A. F. Thurman, President of Tibet House, named one of the 25 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart: The Body’s Fitness-Gong, The Soul’s Fulness-Song’ programme at York College in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Forty-five people are lifted at the public function, including George Brunstad, the oldest person to swim the English Channel, at 70 years of age; H.E. Crispin Gregoire, Ambassador of Dominica to the UN; H.E. Dr. Gabor Horvath, Consul General of Hungary to New York; Dr. Zsolt Morovan, Consul of Hungary to New York; H.E. Le Luong Minh, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the UN; Martin Strel, world’s greatest marathon swimmer; Greg Welch, World Championship triathlete; H.E. Chem Widhya, Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the UN; and Frank Zane, 3-time Mr. Olympia. Sri Chinmoy also receives the highest awards from Hungary, Cambodia and Viet Nam.

Over the entire day, Sri Chinmoy lifts a total weight of 215,808 lbs.; and a total weight of 294,329 lbs. from November 11th-13th.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown at the United Nations in New York.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.