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Sri Chinmoy tells an inspirational story, entitled ‘The Master and the Mother Superior’.

Sri Chinmoy holds his first 7-hour Public Meditation at All Angels’ Church, Manhattan, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a birthday tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at the United Nations in New York. ‘FDR’ was born on January 30, 1882.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to US President Woodrow Wilson and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receiving Peace’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Progress-Promise function hall in Queens, NY, USA.

India’s Ambassador to the United States, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, writes an article in Bhavan’s Journal. Vol. 42, No.12, about Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert, which he attended two months earlier in Washington DC, USA. Sri Chinmoy asked the ambassador to introduce the concert.

Sri Chinmoy writes his book, I am flying and flying and flying, in his own handwriting.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the Inauguration Ceremony of Nepal as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom–Nation. There, he also meets with Kirthi Nidhi Bista and Lokendra Bahadur Chand, both Former Prime Ministers. Also attending is the Speaker of the Upper House of the National Assembly. The ceremony at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, includes a trumpeting Elephant Welcome.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Heart and Soul of Hinduism’ award from Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, the Indonesia Hinduism Society. The presentation is made by the acting chairman at Lembaga Dharma Duta in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Huangshan Pine Golf And Country Club in Huangshan, China.

Sri Chinmoy introduces push-ups into his morning exercise sessions — the day after lifting 270 pounds in the wrist curl. It is the first time he had done push-ups on a Christmas trip since 7 January 1986 in Kyoto, Japan, where he performed 2,230 push-ups continuously in 59 minutes and 50 seconds.

Bob Dylan recites Sri Chinmoy’s poem ‘The Lock and the Key’ on the weekly one-hour satellite radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, which he hosts in the USA.

Sri Chinmoy tells four inspirational short stories, ‘Why the Masters Don’t Mix’, ‘The Foolish, the Clever and the Wise’, ‘The Aspirants return to the Ignorance-Sea’ and ‘Pleasing God in His own Way’.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Muhammad Ali for the third time, in New York, USA. The song ‘Greater than the Greatest’, composed by Sri Chinmoy, is sung in honour of the boxing champion.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function at the United Nations in New York to commemorate Australia’s 34th year as a founding member of the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy runs a solo marathon in a time of 5:20:03, in Flushing Meadows Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sings the word ‘Gratitude’ while creating Jharna-Kala artworks at Progress-Promise function hall in New York, NY, USA. The 20-minute cassette tape of the recording is handed out by Sri Chinmoy at his April 13th celebration function later that year.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 7,063¾ lbs. with his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article…

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jacob Zuma of the African National Congress for the first time in South Africa.

A report about Sri Chinmoy’s recent presentation of the U Thant Peace Award to Dr. Ananda Guruge, the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the USA, is published in the Sinhala newspaper, Dinamina in Sri Lanka.

In a short talk, Sri Chinmoy offers his gratitude to the soul of Nepal, during his brief visit to the country to attend a ceremony dedicating Nepal as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. He also answers a number of questions.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Scientists and God’, at the Orchid Garden Hotel, Brunei Darussalam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mari Alkatir, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the office of the Prime Minister in Dili, Timor-Leste.

Sri Chinmoy is awarded the Medal of Freedom, Timor-Leste’s highest honour, from Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, in Dili, Timor-Leste. Sri Chinmoy is the first to receive this award. In return, Sri Chinmoy honours Dr. Alkitiri with the first World-Harmony-Dreamer Award. Sri Chinmoy then offers a Peace Concert attended by the Prime Minister, the President of the Parliament, the Chief Justice and other Parliamentary Leaders, Ministers and Ambassadors.

During earlier private meetings, Sri Chinmoy meets with Bishop Carlos Belo, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and other dignitaries at Hotel Timor in Dilli, Timor-Leste.

Sri Chinmoy performs a 270-lb. wrist curl, 30 times with each wrist, in Penang, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy writes 50 poems in Puerto Rico that will subsequently be published by Aum Press, Puerto Rico, in 1974 as The Golden Boat, part 1. It is the first book in his new twenty-volume series.

Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his artwork in Plaza de las Americas, Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’, 
at the Virginia Beach Convention Centre in Virginia Beach, VA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with ultra-marathon runner Ted Corbitt.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation and concert for the Indian community, at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, NY, USA.

At the invitation of New York State Governor Mario Cuomo, Sri Chinmoy offers the Opening Meditation at the Interfaith Celebration for the New York State Columbus Quincentenary, at the United Nations in New York. The Governor requests Sri Chinmoy to sit next to him on the dais.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,1st President of South Africa, and President of the African National Congress, at the ANC Headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Holiday Inn in South Beach, Durban, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy drives for one hour in Cancun, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Santuario Dom Bosco, Brasilia, Brazil.

Viet Nam is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifted 35 people, including the Executive Secretary of the Brunei Olympic Council. He also breaks his lifting record by lifting his 2,070th person from the seated position — surpassing his previous record of 2,058 lifts in the standing position — at the Orchid Garden Hotel in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Power, Occult Power and Will Power’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Heaven-Vision and Earth-Reality’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of spiritual questions.

Sri Chinmoy gives two short inspirational talks, entitled ‘Possibility-seed’ and ‘Sorrow’, during meditations held at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Achievement’, at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Choice’, at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is honoured by his disciples at a special function celebrating his completion of 2,000 Bengali songs two days earlier, on January 26th.

Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from the Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar.

Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Trinity Church in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Harvard University at Memorial Church in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with his west-coast disciples during a stop-over at Los Angeles Airport on his way back from Bali to New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Shimin Bunka Hall, Kagoshima, Japan. It is the 16th of 50 concerts Sri Chinmoy dedicates to the 50th anniversary of India’s Independence.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Canada Award.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘With Me, In Me, For Me’, at the Orchid Garden Hotel, in Brunei Darussalam.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Love Me or Hate Me, but Don’t Ignore Me’, in Puerto Rico.

The first issue of Meditation at the United Nations Bulletin is published in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is presented with a trophy by Connecticut’s Mayor Frederick P. Lenz.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function to celebrate Australia Day (Jan. 26th) at the United Nations in New York. The guest of honour is Ambassador Ralph L. Harry, the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy is a guest on The First Estate, broadcast on NBC-TV in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a 94-pound dumbbell overhead from the ground — ‘clean and press‘ — using only his right arm, in New York, NY, USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy ‘Rainbow Marathon’ is held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The event will be held on the 27th of each month.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, at her offices in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Leticia Ramos Shahani, national senator for the Philippines, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and sister of President Ramos; and also meets with Shyamala Cowsjk, Ambassador of India to the Philippines, at the Manila Hotel in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi at City Hall in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Sri Chinmoy is introduced by the Mayor of Pietermaritzburg, Omar Latiff, with opening remarks given by Ela Gandhi, Member of Parliament and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the Sun Royal Hotel in  Kagoshima, Japan.

Mt. Fuji Summit is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Marriott Hotel in Cancún, Mexico.

The Brazilian newspaper, Correio Braziliense (Brazilian Mail), reports that the ‘Peace Run’ inspired by Sri Chinmoy, runs 500 kilometres to honour the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil — the run ending at the Temple of Good Will in the capital, Brazilia.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 11 millionth Soul-Bird drawing, in Brasilia, Brazil.

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

Sri Chinmoy composes songs for the Mother — Janani Mirar — and for Sri Aurobindo — Jaya Bhagaban Sri Aurobindo — while looking at the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s portraits in the main meditation hall at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Read Si Chinmoy’s comments...

Sri Chinmoy racewalks the morning 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in Bali, Indonesia. At the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a special prayer.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Journey’s Start, the Journey’s Close’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Idea and Ideal; The Real and the Eternal’, at the United Nations in New York.

An exhibition of 60 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Toronto-Dominican Bank in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert, together with a Jharna-Kala exhibition, at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Sri Chinmoy composes Chalbo Ami Parama Pita, which at the time was designated as his 2,000th Bengali song.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 3,000th Bengali song, Ami Chinmoy Chira Tanmoy.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree from Dwijendra University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Philippines Cultural Centre, dedicated to President Aquino, in Manila, the Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Myanmar Award.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Power’, at the Luther I. Bonney Hall, University of Maine, in Orono, ME, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Time’, at the Happy Valley Common Room, Marlboro College, in Marlboro, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Muhammad Ali for the first time in Puerto Rico, and then attends one of his training sessions. At the time of the meeting, the legendary boxer was the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist, and the world heavyweight champion 1964-67 and 1974-75.

Sri Chinmoy meets with tennis champion Yannick Noah at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Can Have Peace’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 5,000th Bengali song, Tumi Karunar Sindhu Ami Eshanar Bindu, in Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President of Indonesia B.J. Habibie at an official state function in the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Brazil is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at a commemorative ceremony held by the Minister of Sports and Tourism Rafael Greca de Maceda, and other government officials, at the Parliament of Good Will in Brasilia, Brazil.

East Timor is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about meditation and answers 36 questions on the topic at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The Steve Powers Show’ on WMCA-AM Radio in New York, NY, USA. Listen to the interview...

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centre De Réadaptation in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy completes 100 Indian stories in 19 days, later published a Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace: Tomorrow’s Blossoming Smile’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

The Dharma Vidya Bhavan Garden is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy meets With Emilio C. Macias II, Governor of Negros Oriental Province, in Dumaguete, the Phillipines.

Sri Chinmoy composes his song, ‘Bhulite Diyona Tomar Charan’.

Sri Chinmoy holds a 4-hour meditation for the completion of his poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants and begins a new poetry challenge, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sheraton Bandung Hotel in Bandung, Indonesia.

Indonesia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, with the inauguration ceremony held at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Indonesia Award.

Burkina Faso is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Australia Award, dedicated by Federal Member of Parliament Trish Worth.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 11,000th Bengali song Tumi Amar Sneher Putul Amar Ranjana.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

A library wing holding 2,400 of Sri Chinmoy’s books is dedicated in a ceremony at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Sri Chinmoy speaks about ‘The Future of the Marathon’, just two days after finishing the Orange Bowl Marathon in Miami, Florida, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the 1974 Annual Mentor Poetry Award from the North American Mentor magazine for his poem ‘O Bird of Light’.

Sri Chinmoy writes 8 more Indian stories (88-95), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

Teide National Park, which includes Mount Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy National Peace Park, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, at which King of the Zulu Nation HRH Goodwill Kabhekuzulu Zwelithini delivers the welcome address, in City Hall, Durban, South Africa. The King unveils the plaque declaring Durban a Sri Chinmoy Peace Metropolitan Area, which is presented by the Acting Mayor, Councillor Panday, and the Chairperson of the Metropolitan Executive Council, Mr. Obed Mlaba. The City Hall also hosts an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks. Read more...

The Hungarian State Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy’s play about India’s greatest freedom-fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is performed for the first time. It is staged by Sri Chinmoy’s students in Kagoshima, Japan, on the day of Netaji’s Birth Centenary. Sri Chinmoy originally wrote the play in Bengali in 1948 at the age of just sixteen. In November 1996, he translated it into English.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in observance of the Birth Centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — India’s legendary revolutionary leader and hero — at the Sun Royal Hotel in Kagoshima, Japan.

The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with the President of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy completes his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of India Award.

In a short talk to his students, given at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Sri Chinmoy encourages them to train for a marathon and announces his wish to have a public marathon with the goal of 700 participants. (On 30 August 2002, the first Self-Transcendence Marathon takes place at Rockland Lake State Park in Congers, New York, attracting over 700 runners. It becomes an annual event. Watch the video of the first race...)

Sri Chinmoy begins writing this collection of 50 meditative aphorisms — Fifty Oneness-Heart-Songs of a Perfect God and a Perfect Child — in China, during a bus ride from Xi'an to Huangshan, and he finishes it the same day upon his arrival in Huangshan, China.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at a dinner hosted and attended by HRH Daulat Tuanku, the Sultan of Pahang, in Kuantan, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on WRVR’s ‘Connections’ programme in Connecticut, USA. 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Experience’, in the Commons Room, Graduate School, at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled  ‘The Heart’, in David Rittenhouse Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes 7 more Indian stories (81-87), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Orange Bowl Marathon in a time of 5:33:33, in Miami, FL, USA.

Loro Parque is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Park, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Sri Chinmoy presents the park with a commemorative award bearing his ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings. After the inauguration, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of wide-ranging questions.

The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport is inaugurated at Reina Sofia International Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Hubert Reynolds, Professor of Peace Studies at Silliman University, at the South Seas Resort Hotel in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of Faleolo International Airport as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport in Apia, Western Samoa. Representing the Western Samoa Airport Authority at the ceremony is the airport manager Etuale Sefo.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (402) — the 2nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Maui Lu Hotel in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Asunción, Paraguay. His time is 39:49.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to his students, entitled ‘Only Friend, Best Friends, Fair-weather Friends’, at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy speaks about his days as a champion athlete in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Poficherry, India, during an afternoon function with his students in Xi’an, China.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 orphans from Tengku Ampuan Fatimah Orphanage, at the Awana Kijal Golf Resort in Terengganu, Kuantan, Malaysia.