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Sri Chinmoy sends a taped-recorded message from his home in New York to Sudha (Miss Carmen M. Suro), the President of the Aum Centre Inc., who plays it that evening at the inauguration of their new Centre premises in Calle Mayo, numero 264, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ravi Shankar world-famous sitar player, at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ‘Mahanir’ in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. The two discuss music and spirituality in their native Bengali.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled, ‘The Past, the Present and the Future’, in Room 550 at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director and Lester B. Korn, Ambassador of the United States to the UN, at the UNICEF Plaza in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents James P. Grant, Executive Director of UNICEF, with the U Thant Peace Award at an interfaith prayer breakfast at UNICEF House in New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, and his wife, Graça Machel, Mozambique Minister of Education and Global Advocate for Women and Children, at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York, NY, USA.

Luxembourg is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar and offers him the U Thant Peace Award. Sri Chinmoy also lifted Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy lifts the ‘Magpie Twins’ Casey Burns (2003 North American Heavyweight Sumo Champion) and Kelly Gneiting (Three-time U.S. Heavyweight Champion) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s eighth of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mikhail Gorbachev before the inauguration of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Institute of Paediatric Haematology in St. Petersburg in Russia. The former Soviet President had personally invited Sri Chinmoy to the event, calling him both a personal friend and a long-time friend of the Gorbachev Foundation.

Sri Chinmoy meditates with his students at Guru Stationery on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (15) at Suganami Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 380½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Later in the day, Sri Chinmoy lifts his car that was driven onto a platform attached to a modified calf-raise apparatus — twice without passengers (car plus apparatus: 3,042 lb.); then, on the third lift, he raises the car and three passengers (3,521 lb.); on the fourth lift, he raises the  car and five passengers (3,811 lb.); on the fifth lift, he raises the car and seven passengers (4,107  lb.); and on the sixth lift, he twice raises the car with four persons in the front seat, four in the back seat and three on top of the car — eleven people altogether — holding the lifts for around seven seconds (4,515 lb.).

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (243) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Dominica and Ethiopia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Internationales Congress Centrum in Berlin to an audience of almost 5000 people. It is Sri Chinmoy’s seventh of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

Sri Chinmoy offers his final Peace Concert, dedicated to the late Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, in Lensovet House of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the concert, Sri Chinmoy invites the legendary Russian singer-songwriter Purushottama Boris Grebenshikov on stage to perform.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Devotion’, at the Aum Centre, 3817 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn New York, NY, USA.

Using a standing calf raise, one leg at a time, Sri Chinmoy lifts 400 lbs. with each leg, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Ted Corbitt, Olympic Marathoner, father of ultra-distance running in the US, and the first President of the New York Road Runners Club; Shankar Shetty, President of the Indian National Congress of America; and José Torres, Olympic Boxing silver medallist, former Light Heavyweight Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at City Hall in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (377) – the final in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, IL, USA.

Saint Lucia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ustad Kadar Khan, renowned tabla player, and Pandit Jasraj, Indian classical vocalist in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes ‘Give Me No Freedom’ in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read more…

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kongresscenter in Dresden, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s sixth of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

Sri Chinmoy a talk, entitled ‘Life’, at the home of Mrs. Consuelo Pineiro (Shanti) in Miami, Florida, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and delivers a talk about the UN’s second Secretary-General, in the Meditation Room of the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ken Anderson, no. 1 high school basketball player in the US; Mark Jackson, 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year, former all-American basketball player; Shelton Jones, 1987 all-American basketball player; and Ken Smith, no. 1 basketball point guard in the US – in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy honours the finishers of the 12th Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY, USA. The race also doubled as the TAC USA National 24-Hour Championship and culminated in a women’s world record for Ann Trason.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Peace Osaka Hall in Osaka, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy meets Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award Winner, stage and television actress in the long-running television series ‘Who’s the Boss’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany. These concerts are Sri Chinmoy’s 4th and 5th of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

On the final day of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chiinmoy lifts three planes at Princeton Airport, NJ, USA, and lifts a large stone at a Stone Museum, also in New Jersey.

Scenes of Sri Chinmoy meditating in the picturesque countryside of South Salem in Westchester County, NY, USA, appear in the feature-length film, ‘A Day in the Life of Sri Chinmoy’.

Sri Chinmoy completes 48,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy attends a dedication ceremony and naming of U Thant Island, on the East River adjacent to the UN New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference at his Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York City’s Grand Central Station, New York, NT, USA. He explains to a reporter from WPIX-TV Channel 11 News,the purpose behind his paintings.

Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a car for the first time, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (8) at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ilie Năstase, world champion tennis player, and plays tennis with him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (376) – the 38th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at a ceremony held for the closing of the United Nations General Assembly, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, in New York, NY, USA.

The Dominican Republic and Yemen are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 1650 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s third of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

On day two of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chinmoy lifts:
• Bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl; and Canadian strongman Hugo Girard.
• Two stone lion statues and Hugo Girard, a total of 2,828 lbs., using a seated calf raise.
 • 1,550 of his published works, a total of 1,179 lbs., using a seated calf raise.
• A giant pumpkin, a total of 1,123 lbs., using a standing calf raise.

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

Sri Chinmoy performs at the ‘Night of Champions’ and receives an award from Wayne Demilia, President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Professional Division Inc. at the Town Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins delivering a short inspiring talk each morning after sports practice at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, USA. The talks are later published in his book Aurora-Flora.

Sri Chinmoy meets with world marathon champion Robert de Castella at ‘Deeks Drive’, the famous Stromlo Forest running trail in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy achieves, for the first time, a 360¼-lb. dumbbell lift using only his right arm at his home gym in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. He also lifts 1,600 lbs. using a standing calf raise.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by The New Yorker magazine and Classical Keyboard Instruments, opens at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifs C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, at the George and Annette Murphy Recreation Centre in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 members of the Humboldt University Chamber Choir, East Berlin, Germany, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Ganesh Puja held at Public School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jonathan Moore, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayerful message of support in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, on September 11, 2001.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at Pujaloy — a special temple of pilgrimage built and maintained by the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Germany — in Heidelberg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Maimarkthalle in Mannheim, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s second of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Great Victory Medal from Dr. Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of Russia’s Academy for Military Intelligence and Civil Protection.

Sri Chinmoy begins a 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration (15-17 September) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. For invited special guests, Five-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl and 2002 World’s Strongest Man Hugo Gerard, plus hundreds of onlookers, one of the highlights on day one is Sri Chinmoy lifting a suspended car plus 2 people for a total weight of 2,558 lbs.

Some of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms and meditations (nos. 75-168) are placed inside fortune cookies, which he hands out to his disciples in the Manhattan Centre. He then asks them to read out the meditation in their cookie and proceeds to elaborate on each one. A similar meeting was held for the New York Centre disciples on 1 September 1974 where he handed out aphorisms (nos. 1-74). All 168 aphorisms are later published in his book, Fortune-Philosophy.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, attended by Ambassador Davidson Hepburn of the Bahamas in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations, New York.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Robert Swan for Simply Living magazine, in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pat Clohessy, head long-distance running coach at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. — a total of 600 lbs. — with both arms simultaneously five times, at 8:05 a.m., in his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy embarks on a whirlwind Peace Concert tour through Germany, which will include performing in a different city every day for eight straight days. The tour begins with a  Peace Concert at Stadthalle, Colombi Park, in Freiburg, then moves to Mannheim, Nurnberg Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Dortmund and Hamburg.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘How Secure are We?’, part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture Series, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 13 miles in 2:01:30 (9:20 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon (completing the first 13 miles) in Plainsboro, NJ, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (279) at the University of Illinois to an audience of almost 7,000 people in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for Mother Teresa, who passed away on 5 September 1997 aged 87 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, at his meditation garden, Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also composes the song, ‘Mother Teresa, Calcutta’s Soaring Bird’. Read Sri Chinmoy’s tribute from 5 September 1997.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the Opening of the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts the American philanthropist Ray Chambers, at Aspiration­-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.