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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes to US President Gerald R. Ford offering his prayers for the quick recovery of the President’s wife Betty Ford. In his reply, the President remarks that his family deeply appreciated Sri Chinmoy’s message of prayerful concern and friendship during the time of his wife’s illness.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, USA.

A photograph of Sri Chinmoy meditating with Muhammad Ali, taken the previous day, appears in the New York Times. Sri Chinmoy speaks about the photograph of Muhammad Ali, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at Bakersfield State University in Bakersfield, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled ‘Indifference’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Aristides Royo Sánchez, President of Panama, and Panama’s Foreign Minister Dr. Jorge Illueca at the Panama State Reception at the United Nations in New York. There, he also meets with Dr. Carlos Ozores Typaldos, Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Alan Hovhaness, American composer, at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an early evening Peace Concert (40) and an evening Peace Concert (41) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Harri Holkeri, Prime Minister of Finland, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (569) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in Vienna, Austria.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prayer and Meditation’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA. After the talk, Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions.

Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on the morning of his championship fight with Earnie Shavers, for an hour of prayer and spiritual discussion,  at the apartment of his manager Herbert Muhammad, in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation-concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Departing Friends, Our Lasting Friends and Our Everlasting Friends’, at the University of California in Davis, CA, USA, where he meets with Surjit Singh Barnala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Have Only One Need’, at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with champion marathon runner Robert De Castella and his wife Gaylene Clews at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy had personally invited Rob De Castella to be the guest speaker as part of a regular series of talks given by elite athletes.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (39) at Davies Hall in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 503-lb. for the first time, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, at the Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President Moussa Traore of the Republic of Mali at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy resumes serious weightlifting in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers his spiritual comments about the significance of the Olympic Games in a short talk, entitled ‘On the Olympics’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter Irina Virganskaya-Gorbacheva is also present at the meeting.

Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA. A song, entitled ‘O Great Pilot Mayor Beame’, composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of the mayor, is also performed.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Past Has Fast Faded Behind Us’, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Superiority’, after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents Yiannis Kouros, with the winner’s trophy for his victory in the Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour Road Race held on a one-mile loop course in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA. Yiannis had run through the battering storms of Hurricane Gloria to record a new world record of 178 miles.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (10) at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osaka, Japan. Listen on Radio Sri Chinmoy...

Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians, including Roger Kingdom, 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medallist in 110 metres hurdles, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (201) at the University of California in Irvine CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Kissinger, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mary Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, at the Bosendorfer Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta, at Annam-Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts and plays tennis with Jason McManus, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. — the publishers of over 100 magazine brands, including Time magazine and Sports Illustrated — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mircea Snegur, President of Moldova, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs 22 songs on the cello for his 22nd cello anniversary, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Pir Zia Inayat Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes ten stories between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., while he was visiting his meditation centre in Puerto Rico. They were later published in his book, A Yogi's Justice, an Avatar's Justice and God's Justice.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity And Security’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Are One’, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Lakhan L. Mehrotra, Consul-General of India in California, gives a concert and composes a song in his honour at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA. After the song, Mr. Mehrotra spontaneously offers a most special tribute to Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a short inspiring talk, entitled ‘What is a Miracle?’ after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA. In the evening, at his home in New York, Sri Chinmoy offers a message, entitled ‘I Shall No Longer Allow’.

Sri Chinmoy with ‘the father of long-distance running’ Ted Corbitt at the awards ceremony of the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with marathon champion Robert de Castella after he won the BMW 15 Kilometre Footrace in Harrison, New York. Sri Chinmoy invites ‘Deek’ to visit him in two days time in Jamaica Queens to speak at Annam Brahma restaurant.

Sri Chinmoy offers his Gratitude Day message to his spiritual students, which he also sets to music.

Sri Chinmoy first plays the cello in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 72.66 seconds for 400 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Simon Bolivar Medal from the Central American and Caribbean Masters Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy first lifts a sailboat in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy conducts an interview about his weightlifting achievements with the cable television programme Vision of Asia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (80) in the UN General Assembly Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers his ‘Salutation to Japan’ in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (128) at Avanti Hall in Kyoto, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (200) at the Golden Hall, San Diego Civic Center, in San Diego, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Jaya Raj Acharya, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert, playing and singing 13 songs, to celebrate his 13th cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (596) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN, NY.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree — Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa — from the President and Vice-Chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy gives a short performance of his esraj music.

Sri Chinmoy performs his esraj music in concert at Public School 86, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Ambition, My Friend Unparalleled’, after a morning meditation, at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy starts the runners off at 8 a.m. in the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for athletes of the World Masters Games at the Tapia Theater in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Hiroshima Chūgoku Shimbun, ‘Midland News’, a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (127) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy receives Sudhahota Carl Lewis’ winning shoes from the Olympian’s gold medal long-jump performance at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (244) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, commemorating his completion of 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

After a sudden trip to India to visit his sister Lily, who was seriously ill, Sri Chinmoy returns to New York, NY, USA. Upon his return, he narrates stories of his trip, which are later published in his book, My Express Visit to India.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Mani Sankar Mukherji, renowned Bengali novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 2,400 pounds using a standing calf-raise machine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Nehru Centre in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy attends the Third Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race,  held at Havemeyer Track located behind the Town Hall of Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 31.40 seconds for 200 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Isamu Takada, Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, in Nagasaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall in Nagasaki, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy travels from New York to watch Sudhahota Carl Lewis compete during the 1988 Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea. He has a long conversation with the Olympic champion.

Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea, including Andre Phillips, 1988 Olympic gold medallist for the 400 metres hurdles; and Calvin Smith, 1984 Olympic gold medallist for the 4 x 100 metres relay and 1988 Olympic bronze medallist for 100 metres.

On the completion of his 100,000th Soul-Bird drawing, Sri Chinmoy writes down the special names he has given to each landmark series from the very beginning in the order they were created.

Sri Chinmoy sinks 78 baskets out of 100 basketball throws from penalty line in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert in the 65th year of his birth, playing and singing 65 songs, to celebrate his cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The 2½-hour concert is his longest cello performance.

Sri Chinmoy does an ABC News Interview in the Studio of Satellite Channel: SEDAT 00 New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his ten-millionth Soul-Bird drawing, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy composes two songs, ‘I am a God-pleasing Bird’ and ‘I am a Sky-blue Flower’ — the last in a canon of over 23,000 works that span a lifetime of musical creativity.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: What Does it Really Mean?’, at 9:00 a.m. at William Sloane House, YMCA in New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers two talks, entitled ‘The Face of Truth’ and ‘They Say and We Say’, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington, VT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs in his first 10-mile race, one sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in Greenwich, CT, USA. He completes the course in 1:45:22.

Sri Chinmoy writes thirteen poems (588-600) that are later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 6.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (9) at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (125) at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan. At the end of the concert, Sri Chinmoy meditates with Head Priest Mitsuo Sato, presenting him with a plaque and a garland.

Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev’s chief interpreter Pavel Palazchenko from the Gorbachev Foundation at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed separately by several radio stations about his connection with Mother Teresa: ABC News, New York; Radio WIBC, Indianapolis (live); Radio WJR, Detroit (live); Radio WLW, Cincinnati (live); Radio WGY, Albany (aired September 25th); and Radio MT 90e1 (in the studio of Satellite Channel, SEDAT 00 New York).

Sri Chinmoy lifts William Graham, Foreign Minister of Canada, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy walks the 2-mile course around the perimeter of Jamaica High School in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. At the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, later pub;shed in My Race-Prayers, part 2,

Sri Chinmoy hosts a programme honouring Pope Paul VI’s 80th birthday at the United Nations in New York, which is attended by Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N.

Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions in New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 10 miles in 1:23:47 (8:23 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the V World Masters Games and runs the 100-metre event in 14.48 seconds at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the Games, he chooses to participate for Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy lifts an elephant for the first time, using a modified calf-raise machine at Chinmoy Avenue in Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert (123) and an evening Peace Concert (124) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets with David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial Peace Concert (522) for Mother Teresa (26 August 1910-5 September 1997) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. Read Sri Chinmoy’s tribute from 5 September 1997.

New Zealand is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (595), which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Canada. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 34 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name. The audience of 19,000 is Sri Chinmoy’s largest-ever concert.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ricky Martin, Latin pop singer (afternoon); lifts Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia (early evening), at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy teaches his new song ‘My Birthday’ to the ‘Enthusiasm-Awakeners’ singing group, at the Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race course in front of Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica Hills in Queens, New York, NY, USA, where a concert of Indian music is performed by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and others.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Milkha Singh at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ‘The Flying Sikh’, as he was known, won the gold medal in the 440 yards at the 1958 Commonwealth Games and won 77 of the 80 track races he ran during his career. 

Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to H.E. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of Indian Ministry for External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to USSR, USA, Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka, former Consul General of India to New York, at Aspiration-Ground in Jkamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts16 people, including Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist, NY Metropolitan Opera; Yue Sai Kan, journalist, TV series creator and Emmy Award winner; Dorothy Franco-Reed, 1984 US Olympic Handball Team player, ESPN commentator; and Vinoy Verma, former Indian Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Charles Osgood, CBS Radio and TV newscaster, winner of 3 Emmy Awards, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also performs a short concert on the esraj.

Sri Chinmoy lifts and presents the U Thant Peace Award to Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania; and lifts Alexandr Vondra, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 10 stories during a 6-hour period in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the annual award from the World Gratitude Day Foundation at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400½-lb. lift for the first time, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and presents him with the U Thant Peace Award at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) headquarters in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Dr. Penny Lee Dean, women’s world-record holder for the English Channel swim, set in 1978 to present; John Howard, 1981 Hawaii Ironman champion, world-champion cyclist, member of 3 US Olympic teams; Stu Mittleman, ultra-distance runner, held 6-day and 1,000-mile world record; Scott Tinley, 1982 and 1985 Hawaii Ironman Champion; Frank Zane, legendary bodybuilder, 3-time Mr. Olympia, at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA.

Ravi Shankar invites Sri Chinmoy and Sudhahota Carl Lewis to visit the hermitage and retreat of Paramahamsa Yogananda in Encinitas, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy concludes his German concert tour (September 14th-21st) with a Peace Concert at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany. The nine concerts attracted a total audience of over 9000.

Sri Chinmoy lifts W.J.M. Lokubandara, Speaker of Sri Lankan House of Parliament, Minister of Education, at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.