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Sri Chinmoy arrives San Francisco, CA, USA, to hold public meditations in various cities in California. His visit is honoured by the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco Joseph L. Alioto with an official proclamation, dated 6 October 1975.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at the Queen’s Free Chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Westminster Abbey in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Bernard Weatherall, Speaker of the British House of Commons, at the British Parliament in London, UK.

A four-day (Oct.12-15) exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Birds drawings opens at a gallery in Miyazaki, Japan. Sri Chinmoy declares his goal to be one million birds.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Miyazaki Prefecture Medical Association (MPMA) in Miyazaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy begins by offering his first prayer  before excersing on his stationary bicycle at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. The series of payers are later published in his book, My Aspiration-Heart Cycles, part 1 and part 2.

San Marino is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy writes a letter of congratulations to Kofi Annan upon hearing the news that the Secretary-General has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2001. Sri Chinmoy also writes to Professor Lundestad, Director of the Nobel Peace Committee, to express his happiness on learning that both the United Nations and the UN Secretary-General are jointly receiving the world's most significant peace award.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 5,000th lift in his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme when he raises Vladimir Petrovsky, former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. The lift takes place in the back garden tent of Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Songs by Sri Chinmoy, composed in honour of Vladimir Petrovsky, are performed by an acapella, all-male choir.

Sri Chinmoy is welcomed back to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Ferré where the first Sri Chinmoy spiritual Centre was established in San Juan in 1966.

Sri Chinmoy offers a lecture, entitled ‘The Answer to World-Despair’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy holds a programme in memory of Don Pablo Casals at the United Nations in New York. A song in honour the master cellist’s birth centenary,‘O Pablo Casals’ — composed by Sri Chinmoy on 5 October —  is sung by the United Nations Meditation Group singers.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human in Me, the Divine in Me and the Supreme in Me’, St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with ultra-marathon legend Ted Corbitt at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with S.N. Mishra, Foreign Minister of India, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy publicly lifts 106¼ lbs. using only his right arm at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. (Two days earlier, Sri Chinmoy lifted the same weight at his home gym.)

Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert (134) at Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at the Basilica of St. Denis in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the World Citizens Assembly at the Penta Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 pounds, 30 times on his stomach — known as ‘stomach crunches’ — at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA. He describes it as “the most difficult lift”.

Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka offer a private concert for Sri Chinmoy and special guests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read the report from Anahata Nada...

Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden and Sri Chinmoy Street are inaugurated at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Flushing, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy is joined at the ceremony by Jim Gennaro, New York City Councilman; Commissioner Estelle Cooper, Administrator of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Dorothy Lewandowski, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for Queens.

Sri Chinmoy enters Mahasamadhi at his home in Jamaica, Queens, New York. During the coming week, observances are held at Aspiration-Ground — the place where he spent so many hours meditating, performing concerts, teaching songs, painting and drawing, honouring dignitaries, giving talks, weightlifting and playing tennis.

An article about Sri Chinmoy, by special correspondent Audrey Aslin, appears in The Ottawa Citizen, in Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message entitled, ‘Because You are a Born-Heart’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 20 km in 1:51:00 (8:55 pace) at the Long Island Road Runners Club Race, in Eisenhower Park, East Meadow, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy visits Schilthorn Peak in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. It overlooks the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and is the highest mountain in the range lying north of the Sefinenfurgge Pass.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St. James Church in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Mr. Zehn Eckhardt of the U.N. Bureau of the German Press Agency, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (133) at Palatrussardi in Milan, Italy.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (247) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Deutschlandhalle to an audience of 9,000 in Berlin, Germany.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert for Ravi Shankar, world-renowned sitar player, and his wife, Sukanya, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. Earlier in the day, they both visited Sri Chinmoy’s ‘Pilgrim-Museum’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. It is their 22nd meeting.

Sri Chinmoy comments about Thomas Jefferson during a conversation with Nripal Eric Petersen, author of the book, Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, about the 3rd President of the USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Jesper Kenn Olsen, round-the-world runner, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy then offers a soulful message to the Danish ultra-distance runner, who was soon to complete his run of 26,000 miles all around the world.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inspiration, Aspiration and Realisation’, at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message entitled, ‘Why am I so Unhappy?’ after morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs the 4-mile race, sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, in a time of 36 minutes and 16 seconds, at Breezy Point, Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Royal Albert Hall to an audience of 5,000 in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 106¼ lb. using only his right arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Mokshagun Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, meditates with Sri Chinmoy at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Perfection’, at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality and Art’, at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Psychic Power and Will-Power, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘Grievances’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Bernard Weatherall, Speaker of the British House of Commons, at Westminster Abbey in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (132) at Glasgow City Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (14) at the University Chapel, Glasgow University, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (160) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Emil Zatopek — three-time gold medallist at the 1952 Olympics for 5 km, 10 km and marathon — at he Sri Chinmoy Cup, a masters competition for athletes aged 40 years and over, held in Prague, Czech Republic. The event, attracts 2,000 spectators and athletes, and is organised by the 1992 Olympic decathlon champion, Robert Zmelik, in honor of Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Prague.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the Sri Chinmoy Cup — a special event organised by current Olympic decathlon champion, Robert Zmelik, in honor of Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Prague —held at Slavia Praha Sports Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic. His results in the field events are — 8.38 metres for the 4 kilogram shot put; 21.04 metres for the 1 kilogram discus; and 23.58 metres for the 600 gram javelin. He records a time of 16.60 seconds for the 100-metre race, which he runs with current Olympic decathlon champion Robert Zmelik. Emil Zatopek is the official starter for this special event.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (429) — the 29th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — attended by a capacity audience of 15,000 people, at the Sportovní Hala Sparta, in Prague, Czech Republic.The concert is broadcast live on national radio.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Martha Sawyert Allen, who writes a column called ‘Faith and Body’ for the Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. The telephone conversation takes place at 9:30 a.m. on 8 October and the article is published on Saturday, 14 October 2000. 

Sri Chinmoy answers a question on ‘Politics and the Spiritual Life’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Control: Self-Offering to God’, at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Attachment and Detachment’, at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God’s Power of Love in Today's World’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy writes 150 poems in 24 hours, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘The Role of Humility in the Spiritual Life’,in the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter, in Americus, GA, USA. Sri Chinmoy sings her the song ‘Compassion-Ocean, Mother Lillian’, which he had composed the day before. Later that evening Sri Chinmoy and his students give a public concert in her honour.

Sri Chinmoy launches the Salutation to America 1,300-mile non-stop relay at midnight in Concord, NH, USA. The relay, comprised of 15 runners from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, goes on to carry a flaming torch through each of the 13 original states of the US and completes its journey seven days later in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Independence’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy dedicates a memorial arch to former UN Secretary-General U Thant, on U Thant Island – an island in the East River adjacent to the UN, inaugurated on September 16, 1977, by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’ – in New York NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the first U Thant Peace Award to Zenon Rossides, Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 98½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy visits Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The City of Ottawa is dedicated as the first Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital at a ceremony attended by Canadian federal and city officials in the World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy begins drawing a series of human faces in Japan. He completed 3,433 drawings.

Sri Chinmoy runs a solo time trial for the 100 metres in a time of 16.30 seconds on the Cricket Club Track in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes his 1,300th weightlifting prayer, before doing an 800-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Kazakhstan and Namibia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with an organ performance, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 10 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled, ‘Spirituality’, in Conference Room 14 at the United Nations, New York.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs the Pheidippides Marathon (5:39:41) in Athens, Greece. Read Sri Chinmoy’s account of the race and the next 15 anecdotes...

Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘Hope’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 600 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (131) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (159) at the Alhambra Theatre in Athens, Greece.

Sri Chinmoy runs a solo time trial for the 100 metres in a time of 17.40 seconds on a track in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (428) — the 28th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Palais Ferstel in Vienna, Austria, attended by an audience of 15,000 people.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 lbs. with each arm separately after only 7 days of practice in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Ted Turner, founder of CNN and Vice Chairman of Time Warner, during a ceremony at the United Nations in New York attended by a gathering of UN Ambassadors and corporate leaders. (Ted Turner has donated US$1 billion to support UN causes.)

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts two wrestlers: Asashōryū Akinori (Dolgorsürengiin Dagvadorj), Champion of Sumo Wrestling; and his brother Dolgorsürengiin ‘Slippery’ Sumiyaabazar, five-time gold medallist in Mongolia Freestyle Wrestling, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Maestro Valery Gergiev, St. Petersburg’s legendary conductor, at the Ethical Cultural Society in New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Ovalhalle and Arena21 in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pablo Casals, world-renowned cellist, at the maestro’s residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘O Pablo Casals’ in honour of Don Pablo’s birth centenary (29 December 1876). The song is later sung on 11 October 1976, during a programme at the United Nations which Sri Chinmoy holds in memory of the maestro.

Sri Chinmoy is asked a question about solving the world’s problems by Mr Le Kim Dinh, United Nations Correspondent for The New York Times, at a meeting of the meditation group at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy is named ‘Honorary Visiting Scholar’ at the Pacific School of Religion, University of California, in Berkeley, CA, USA. Written acknowledgment also came from Andrew Neil Goldenkranz of the ASSU Council of Presidents and from Edward E. Golbry of the Department of Music Stanford University.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Run and Become’, at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers two inspirational messages entitled ‘What is Needed’ and ‘God the Creator’ after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plays the harpsichord at Progress-Promise function hall in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including Peter Hensel, 1985 Mr. Universe, 1985 World Amateur Mixed Pairs Champion, 1986 Mr. Olympia 6th place; and Christoph Herle, German national-record holder for the marathon and 10,000 metres, in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (202) at the Bayfront Center Arena in St. Petersburg, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Stoyan Ganev, President of the UN General Assembly, in his private offices at the United Nations in New York. The President also holds the Peace Torch of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (427) — the 27th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Centre Sportif du Bout-du-Monde in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to the Peace Concert, Sri Chinmoy meets with Mr. Vladimir F. Petrovsky, Director General of the United Nations Office in Geneva, at his private residence. At the concert, Mr. Aleksandr Gavroushkin, Political Affairs Officer and Special Assistant to Mr. Vladimir Petrovsky offers an introductory welcome to Sri Chinmoy.

The Indian State of Goa is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy delivers his maiden speech in the United States, a lecture entitled ‘Hinduism’, to the tenth-grade students of Hicksville High School in Hicksville, NY, USA. Krishan Dhanda, a friend of Mr. Ramamoorthy who worked with Sri Chinmoy at the India Consulate in New York at the time, made the arrangements for the lecture.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Opportunity Divine and Necessity Supreme’, at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Ignorance’, at the University of California in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘I Shall Learn and Learn’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) in 2:30:35 (9:43 pace) at the New York City Marathon Tune-Up in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 3 motorcycles, 2 Mounties on horseback, and a helicopter using the standard calf raise in New York and New Jersey environs, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (42) at the Church of St. Boniface in Munich, West Germany, and appears on German National Television in Munich, Germany, lifting TV host Guenter Jauch.

Sri Chinmoy honours Karan Singh, Ambassador of India to the United States, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy tests out an enormous set of 27 portable steps, at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the field events – 600gm javelin throw (24.2m), 4kg shot put (8.19m) and 1kg discus (21.56m) — at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at Victory Field, Forest Park, Woodhaven, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of Mongolia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Austria – Heart of Europe Award from six Members of Parliament, at a ceremony at the banquet hall of the Vienna Börse (Stock Exchange) in Vienna, Austria.