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The day before Christmas, Sri Chinmoy writes twenty-two poems in honour of Jesus Christ. The poems are later published in his book, Brother Jesus.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special Christmas Eve function at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Flushing, Queens, NT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes 20 songs, setting music to the words of the Christ.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy continues to practice with oversized shot puts each morning at a beachside park in Honolulu, HW, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with R. Dayakar, Consul General of India in Vietnam, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy meets with P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu, at the Bluestar Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy completes 8,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings at Viva Clarion Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (608) at the National Theatre in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy comments on a painting of Jesus Christ displayed in the function room of the Inter-Continental Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Christmas Eve.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Paduka Paku Alam of Yogyakarta at Keraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Faouzi Skali, founder of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music 2001, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy plays one of his own compositions on the piano at a classical music recital, held at the Unitarian Church in White Plains, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled  ‘I Shall Not Accept Defeat’, during a Christmas Trip in Miami, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (89) at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago, Chile.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Chira Pongdaiboon, Lord Mayor of Hua Hin, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Alexandria, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Censu Tabone, President of Malta, and Mrs. Tabone, followed by Sri Chinmoy offering a Peace Concert (289) for invited guests, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Edward Fenech-Adami, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Valletta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mai Ling, Viet Nam’s top female sprinter, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation to commemorate the anniversary of his beloved dog Kanu's passing, held on the back lawn of the Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Western Samoa, during a torrential downpour. Also, the same day, Sri Chinmoy draws a special Soul-Bird artwork for Kanu, which takes him 5 hours and 15 minutes to complete.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre, 200-metre and 2-mile races at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Greenpoint Stadium, Cape Town, in South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Uma Meshtri, great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (451) at City Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Virak Prom, Director of International Affairs, Cambodian National Assembly; and Sry Tamarang, International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at San Cristobal Fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Australia, Do Have My Indian Heart!’.

Sri Chinmoy meets with José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Residence in Los Pinos in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Antonio Caldera, former President of Venezuela, at President Caldera’s office in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (143) and organ recital (26) at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

At a morning shot put session, at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sri Chinmoy displays the ten shot puts — with weights of 6, 8, 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, 35, 40 and 50 lbs. — with which he has been practising.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former Senator Hiram Fong at the Senator Fong Plantation and Gardens in Kaneohe, Oahu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (388) at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy completes 700,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy meets with His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (400) at the Royal Nepal Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, (477) attended by Reverend Mitsuo Sato, Head Priest of Kotoku-in Temple, at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio at the Office of the Archbishop, at Cathedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (553) at Orchard Parade Hotel in Singapore.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and Bun Rany Hun Sen, First Lady of Cambodia, preceded by a 30-minute private meeting and followed by a live televised ceremony sent to 126 countries, at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a symbolic gesture, the Prime Minister also holds the Peace Torch.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Lydia Bradley, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; and Guy Cotter, two-time Mt. Everest climber, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people and was named an Honorary Fellow of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta (Solo), at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy tells ten stories to his students while on a Christmas trip in Qingdao, China.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’, at the Aum Centre Inc., 659 Miramar Avenue, in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers his New Year’s Message for 1974 with an evening programme of meditation and music at Hunter College in New York City, NY, USA, to an audience of 1,500 people. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary marathon coach Kiyoshi Nakamura at Jingu Gaien Park in Tokyo, Japan. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Enrique Tierno Galvan, Mayor of Madrid, at the Mayor’s offices in Madrid, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Aye Aye Myint-u, daughter of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, and her family, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (288) at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Malietoa Tanumafili II, Head of State of Western Samoa, at the Head of State residence in Apia, Western Samoa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (288) at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

Langtang II mountain in the Himalayas is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Mountain at an inauguration ceremony in Nagarkot, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (577) at the Sheraton Rio Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the 5th of 13 concerts dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 people at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets music to 99 English poems from Transcendence-Perfection in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura on his second visit (the first being on 23 October 1969) at the Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Vinay Verma, Ambassador of India to Thailand, Permanent Representative of India to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for Asia and the Pacific, son of Sri Chinmoy’s English teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (211) at the Cairo Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy trains with over-sized shot puts at a beachside park in Hawaii. The shot puts range in size from 6 to 50 lbs.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (287) dedicated to President Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, where he receives the Gold Medallion for International Service to Peace, from Constantin Spiteri, Head of Culture, Ministry of Education.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of Russia to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Bishopscourt official residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and (528) Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Hotel Barceló Del Lago in Panajachel, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Later, at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Sri Chinmoy meditates with a young Buddhist monk Sopheap, and then the two speak about their experiences at a war museum, as well as other subjects.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Xiamen Middle School Number 5 in Xiamen, China, where he meets with Mr. Xu, Minister of Education for Xiamen. 1,000 school children sing Sri Chinmoy’s composition ‘I Am A Great Chinese Boy, I Am A Good Chinese Girl’.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Thirty–Two Years I Lived in India’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled, ‘Three Secrets: Reincarnation, Evolution and Transformation’ – later published in two parts as Two Secrets: Reincarnation and Evolution and Evolution – to a group of spiritual aspirants at the residence of Mrs. Ida Patterson in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1976 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. Afterwards, at an informal gathering, Sri Chinmoy offers his remarks about ‘Fulfilling a New Year's Resolution’.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, attended by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., opens at the UN Secretariat Lobby in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Kyoto, Japan

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (22) at Hotel Meliá in Torremolinos, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (53) at the Science Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including The Venerable Pratamkunaporn, Abbot of the Wat Po Temple, at Wat Po Temple in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Ronnie Weerakoon, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Egypt, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (257) at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Valentina Matvienko, Ambassador of Russia to Malta, at the Russian Embassy in Valetta, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy meets with and lifted Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Hindu Monastery in Kauai, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (476)at the Kyoto Terrsa Hall in Kyoto, Japan, attended by Bishop Dwight R. Nakamura, Abbot of Daijuji Temple.

Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers race in Singapore. Due to a persistent, painful knee injury, he walks just one mile in a time of 21:09.

Sri Chinmoy and his students take a boat ride on the ‘Casablanca Rio’, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Li Ming Zhu, including Li Ming Zhu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Red Cross Foundation. He also receives a gift from Guo Zhen Jia, Xiamen Vice Mayor, at the Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Bronze Medal of New York City from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the NYC Council City Hall, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Self-Offering’ at a meeting with his New York Centre after reading out his New Year’s Message for 1976.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1977 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. In comjunction with the event, a large number of Sri Chinmoy ’s Jharna-Kala paintings are on display, including the stage backdrop for the occasion, the 12-by-27-foot canvas ‘Larger than the Largest’.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1978 at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Earlier, he cooks 1,000 Indian sweets, which he gives out as prasad ‘blessed food’ on the evening.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song for Mexico. He later dedicates the song to José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at their meeting on 22 December 1981.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (52) at the Kamakura City Public Hall in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Toshihiko Seko, Japanese marathon champion, at Hotel Sunroute in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (88) attended by the mother and sister of Paul Ricardo Alfonsin, President of Argentina, at the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sri Chinmoy offers the first twenty-four prayers to individual Japanese students of his, during a Christmas trip visit to Japan. The prayers are later published in Part 1 of his book My Sweet Father-Lord, Where Are You?

Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including several Thai professors, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (166) at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Jehan Sadat, widow of President Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt (1970-1981), at the Sadat residence in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Church, the 117th successor to Saint Mark, at the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre event in a time of 15.59 seconds, at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet, held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Central City Library in Brisbane, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 56 people, including Ann Hare, Olympic middle-distance runner; Toni Jeffs, Olympic freestyle swimmer, 2002 world masters record in 50-metre freestyle; and Tim Prendergast, 2002 gold medallist and world record holder 800m in the IPC Championships for the Visually Impaired, at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and receives the City Award from Guo Zhenjia, Vice Mayor of Xiamen, at the Botanical Gardens in Xiamen, China. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy presents a delegation from the Red Cross with a large supply of blankets, school supplies and toys from his humanitarian organisation, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles. He then offers special comments about the Red Cross.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 members of the Mongolian National Circus at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s Meditation and Message for the New Year (1972) for the public at Columbia University, New York City. It is attended by over 800 seekers. Sri Chinmoy and Jamaica area disciples travel there on the maiden trip of the new Centre bus ‘Alo Bani’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the Spiritual Life?’, at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s 300th book Aspiration-Tree is published. It is the first hard-bound book produced by the Sri Chinmoy Centre Press in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, and presents him with 300 of his published books for the NYC Public Library, which the mayor receives at City Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura. During this fourth visit to the monument, he is invited to a special Japanese tea ceremony and banquet inside the Kōtoku-in Temple, at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (387) at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (399) at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, attended by special guests Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal; B. B. Karki, Speaker of the Nepal Upper House; R. C. Poudel, Speaker of the Nepal House of Representatives; H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal; and P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (606) with the guest of honour General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (607) at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ recital at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song for the children of China, entitled ‘I am a Great Chinese Boy, I am a Good Chinese Girl’, while in Xiamen, China. During his visit to China, Sri Chinmoy composes 419 new songs in Bengali and English.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Queens, NY, USA, following the conclusion of a 48-hour, non-stop relay called the Queens Culture Run, which began on the evening of 14 December in his honour.

Sri Chinmoy offers his annual New Year’s meditation at 7:30 p.m. and recites his New Year’s message for 1980 at McMillin Theater, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. He also performs the New Year’s message song that he set to music the day before. After the evening presentation, Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahavishnu John McLaughlin.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (51) at Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Placido D’Souza, High Commissioner of India to Hong Kong, at the YMCA in Hong Kong. Sri Chinmoy is also interviewed by Nick Bailey, a reporter from Hong Kong Today.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mounir Fahmy and Samir Farid, former Egyptian Air Force Generals, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy practises with a 27-lb. shot put at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA. He also receives the Matsunaga Institute for Peace Award from the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy sends a letter of congratulations and encouragement to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan just prior to the commencement of his first term of office.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (576) at Teatro Joao Caetano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy meets with General Khin Nyunt, head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, at the Guest House of the Ministry of Defence in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy individually lifts 30 cows, weighing a total of 22,127 lbs., at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand. The lifting session completes his 3-day project of lifting 100 cows, for an overall total of 90,447 lbs. 

Sri Chinmoy gives three Christmas trip talks to his students — Intensity in meditation, Channel swimmers, do speedwork! and Vision of an Avatar — in Xiamen, China.

Sri Chinmoy gives three Christmas trip talks to his students — If you throw your heart and soul into a project, When I give a special message and Obedience has sweetness in it — in Kuantan, Malaysia.

An historic photograph of Sri Chinmoy in the high meditative state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi is taken at the Sri Chinmoy Centre Church in Bayside, New York, NY, USA. The picture is later used on the poster for Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Meditation, held at Hunter College, New York, on 29 December.

Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1979, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also set the message to music and the song is performed that evening.

Sri Chinmoy produces a handwritten poetry book Four Hundred Gratitude-Flower-Hearts, his 400th published book, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers his annual New Year’s meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1982, at the High School of Art and Design in New York, NY, USA. Also, a special song he had composed the previous day from the words of the message is performed by his students.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Never Say No’ in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including media representatives at the YMCA in Hong Kong.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Guido de Marco, Deputy Foreign Minister of Malta at the Hilton Hotel in St. Julian’s Bay, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (320) at the Bangkok Bank building in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 6,000th Bengali song Gorokshanath Gorokshanath Shakti Tuphan at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Union of Myanmar is officially dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Maj. Gen. Saw Lwin. Sri Chinmoy is guest of honour at the inauguration ceremony held at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joaquim Cruz, the 1984 Olympic gold medallist in 800 metres, whom he had lifted the previous day at Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand. The Brazillian track star offers gifts of gratitude to Sri Chinmoy who had just presented him with a framed photo of the lift.