September 26
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
September 26
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
October 31
Mr. Lakhan L. Mehrotra, Consul, Indian Consulate, New York, USA, offers a glowing testimonial about Chinmoy Kumar Ghose after his resignation from the Consulate.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God, Truth and Love’, at Southwestern University in Cebu City, The Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy receives a hand-deliveered letter from the renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein, congratulating him on his artistic achievements.
Sri Chinmoy attends his Jharna-Kala exhibition for the International Year of the Child held at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Aldaba-Lim, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and recently appointed Special Representative for the International Year of the Child, at a fund-raising bazaar held for UNICEF by the United Nations Meditation Group. Sri Chinmoy gives an impromptu flute performance and the UN singers also perform Sri Chinmoy’s new song ‘UNICEF’. The event is opened by Dr, Aldaba Lim.
Sri Chinmoy writes twenty poems (416-435) on the trip from Madras to Bombay, India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 5.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Abdel-Rahman Abdalla of the Democratic Republic of Sudan to the United Nations, at the UN in New York, at a special programme marking the twenty-fourth anniversary of Sudan joining the United Nations.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Marty Gallagher, weightlifting and powerlifting champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (206) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (251) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the New York Road Runners Club Pre-Marathon Friendship Run, where he meets with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 9 English Channel swimmers (2,133 lbs.); disciples from 27 countries (4,150 lbs.); a giant pumpkin with 5 men (2,330 lbs.); two grand pianos with players (2,035 lbs.); 3 motorcycles with riders (3,101 lbs.); and 10 mountain climbers (2,385 lbs.) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation at the British House of Commons in London, UK.
Mongolia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
October 30
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, ‘Self-Knowledge’, at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, The Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy invites members of his recently formed university meditation groups — from Brandeis, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers and Columbia to name a few — to a talk and meditation he is conducting especially for them, held in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Labouisse, Executive Director of UNICEF, at UNICEF in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers his first public esraj concert in continental USA at St. Thomas Church, cnr. 5th Avenue and 53rd Street, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes fifteen poems (401-415) on 29 and 30 October, at his family home in Pondicherry, India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 5.
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Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for the centenary of the Arya Samaj at the Hindu Temple Society of North America (Ganesh Temple) in Flushing, NY, USA, where he meets with Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman, Founder and Executive Director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, for the first time.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,700 lbs. using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a 605-lb. pumpkin in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 people, including members of the medical and religious communities in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits ‘Sacred Rock’ — home of Grammy-Award-winning musician Narada Michael Walden in Tiburon, California, USA — to dedicate the first Sri Chinmoy statue. He meditates with Narada privately and then meets with many of Narada's seeker-friends. During their private meditation, Sri Chinmoy offers Narada a special message. (The installation was commissioned by Narada and created by renowned British sculptor Kaivalya Torpy.)
Sri Chinmoy is guest of honour at the Iceland Sri Chinmoy Peace Nation Inauguration Ceremony hosted by Reykjavik Mayor Ingibjörg Gísladóttir at Hofdi House (site of Presidents Gorbachev and Reagan 1986 Summit) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Former Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannsson also lent his support to the occasion.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (600) at Reykjavik University Theatre in Reykjavik, Iceland. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 40 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, virtuoso guitarist and 1994 Grammy Award Winner, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of Iceland.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1997-2002), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Russian Culture Informational Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.
October 29
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘Belief and Faith’, at 7 p.m. at Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, AK, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy writes ten poems (366-375) during a car ride from Madras to Pondicherry. He continues to write twenty-five more poems (376-400) on 29 and 30 October at the home of his family in Pondicherry in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (47) at the Beacon Theater in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Addwitiya Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Dan Lurie, President and Founder of the World Bodybuilding Guild; and Wayne Demilia, Vice-President, International Federation of Bodybuilders, Head Judge, Mr. and Mrs. Olympia Competitions Jamaica, NY, USA.
Prince Charles greets the runners of the global Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run — the longest torch relay in history — and holds the Peace Torch while on a visit to Canada with his wife Diana Princess of Wales and their sons William and Harry.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for the Gandhi Symposium, hosted by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, at St. Peter’s Church in New York, NY, USA. Attending the symposium, is Dr. L.M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of the Republic of India, at Annam Brahma Restaurant tin Jamaica, NY, USA. The former President also holds the Peace Torch.
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at a programme on Thomas Jefferson at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA.
October 28
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates his new meditation Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yoga and Spirituality’, at the University of Honolulu, in Honolulu, HI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes fifteen poems (306-320) on a plane ride from Calcutta to Hyderabad in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (46) at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special tennis tournament for priests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The winner of the event is Monsignor Thomas Hartman (Father Tom) from Long Island, New York.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Hessischer Rundfunk (National German Radio) in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Astoria, an 850-passenger ship on the Main River, is designated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Ship in Frankfurt, Germany.
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 New York, NY, USA.
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, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (432) — the 32nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Marina Hotel in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts members of the diplomatic community, including the following Permanent Representatives to the UN: Fátima Veiga, Cape Verde; Crispin Grey-Johnson, The Gambia; Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Guinea; Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Kenya; Cheick Sidi Diarra, Mali; Aminu Bashir Wali, Nigeria; and Boniface Chidyausiku, Zimbabwe, at a programme hosted by Ibrahim Gambari, UN Under-Secretary-General, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Prior to the lifting programme, Sri Chinmoy honoured his guests with a special banquet at Annam Brahma restaurant. After the lifts, the diplomats join Sri Chinmoy at the nearby Pilgrim-Museum.
October 27
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan when the world-famous sarod player gives a special concert for the spiritual teacher and his students at Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy features on a religion documentary at ABC-TV in New York, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the School of Architecture in Halifax, NS, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 604 lbs. using only his right arm ay his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including numerous Washington University professors and Olympic athletes at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including Noumou Diakite, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Festhalle to an audience of 8,000 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Ottawa, to honour the city on becoming a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital.
The Forth Railway Bridge, one of the United Kingdom’s most famous bridges, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Bridge. Those attending the ceremony, include officials of Railtrack, which owns the bridge; L. M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK; and Sri Chinmoy himself. Also, the same day, Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘My Scotland’.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, NY, USA.
The Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Karan Singh, former Indian Ambassador to the US, author, diplomat and present titular Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
October 26
An article about Sri Chinmoy is published by the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo, Japan, during his first lecture tor of the Far-East.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ego and Emotion’, at 7 p.m. at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Religion, Spirituality and Yoga’, at Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an Official Guest of Honor of Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Don Francisco Matos Paoli at the poet’s home in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in Osaka, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy writes twenty poems at the Osaka Grand Hotel in Osaka, Japan. Later published as poems 131-150, in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 2.
Sri Chinmoy meets with champion New Zealand runner Allison Roe at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA, the day after she won the women’s division of the New York City Marathon.
Sri Chinmoy lifts one ton of pumpkins in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The First Estate: Religion in Review’ by producer and host Dr. Russell Barber, highly respected religion editor and Emmy Award winner at WNBC-TV, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy sets music to three of his best-known aphorisms on the theme of Peace.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his sister Lily’s birthday at his home in New York on the evening of the 26th, which is the morning of her birthday, the 27th in Pondicherry, India.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Murrayfield Ice Rink in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
October 25
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled ‘New Creation’, at the Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘True Spirituality and Inner Life’, at 1 p.m. at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sound-Life and Silence-Life’, at 8:30 p.m. at Northern State College in Aberdeen, SD, USA.
The first Sri Chinmoy Sangit is held in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at the Museo Del Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner World and the Outer World’, in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes thirty poems (101-130) during a train ride from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 2.
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:36:22 in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 700 lbs. using a seated calf raise; and lifts a steamroller using a one-leg calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
‘Honey Fitz’, the presidential yacht used by five American Presidents, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Yacht, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute High School, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. En route to the concert, Sri Chinmoy composes a special prayer; at a later date, he elaborates on its significance.