October 28
Sri Chinmoy awards a winner’s trophy to Father Tom at a special tennis tournament for priests held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
October 28
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to the United Nations at the Marina Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Peace Concert dedication by Sri Chinmoy:
Today’s Peace Concert I am prayerfully offering to the all-illumining soul and all-serving heart of the United Nations.
The United Nations has completed its fiftieth year, and our Peace Meditation Group is extremely grateful to the soul of the United Nations for the blessingful opportunity to serve the United Nations for the past twenty-five years.
The members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations and I are all gratitude to the soul of the United Nations.
Published in My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations
October 28
Sri Chinmoy receives the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award together with Coretta Scott King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan banquet commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s 125th Birth Anniversary held at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
“I accept this award, humbled that you have chosen me along with such an esteemed spiritual leader as Sri Chinmoy.” — Coretta Scott King
Sri Chinmoy first meets Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India, at the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in New York.
October 28
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the inauguration of the new meditation Centre in Montreal, Canada.
October 27
Sri Chinmoy lifts Karan Singh, former Indian Ambassador to the US, author, diplomat and present titular Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
October 27
FAMOUS BRIDGE IN SCOTLAND DEDICATED TO PEACE
One of the United Kingdom’s most famous bridges, the Forth Railway Bridge, was dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Bridge on Oct. 27.
This bridge across Scotland’s Forth River stood as an engineering marvel when it was built over a century ago, and at the time was the largest bridge in the world.
Today, when something seems to go on endlessly, people in the U.K. say it is “like painting the Forth Bridge.”
Speaking at the dedication ceremony, L. M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the U.K., said Sri Chinmoy “lifts this bridge a little higher because he implants into it the soul of peace.”
In his own remarks, Sri Chinmoy said: “Forth Bridge ... you are Scotland’s transcendental pride. You are Scotland’s universal dedication.”
Also attending the dedication ceremony were officials of Railtrack, which owns the bridge.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 25 August-November 1996
October 27
604-lb lift
She Wanted Me To Do More
by Sri Chinmoy
When I lifted 604 pounds with one arm, my physical mother appeared before me in the inner world, full of compassion, to watch. After the fourth attempt, she wanted me to do more. I said, “I am tired. I am satisfied with this.” — 27 October 1986
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 2
Sri Chinmoy at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in New York.
The women’s champion Sulochana Kallai at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in New York.
October 27
Out in nature with his camera, Sri Chinmoy the photographer captures pictures of swans on New York’s Oakland Lake, Alley Pond Park in Queens, as he walks among the autumnal colours of the changing season.
October 27
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, New York.
October 27
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Festhalle to an audience of 8,000 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Ottawa
Lyrics:
Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa!
Canada’s peace-blossom-fragrance-delight.
World-harmony’s pioneer-perfection-height.
Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa!
Canada, God’s Dream-Sky-Reality-Sun.
The Supreme Lord’s Heart-Song you have begun.
Published in My Aspiration-Heart’s Country-Life-Salutations
My Scotland
Lyrics:
My Scotland, my Scotland, my Scotland!
God’s Invention-Eye, God’s Action-Hand.
Pure in God-love-memory, sure in God-discovery;
Supreme Lord’s choice victory band!
Published in Country Songs, Part 2