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Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ’Can Meditation Enhance Leadership?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a  silent meditation for UN delegates and personnel as well as leaders of the world’s major faiths attending the  programme at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to celebrate the opening of the General Assembly's 30th session.

Sri Chinmoy completes 44,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is honoured  at a special programme celebrating World Gratitude Day held in the United Nations Secretariat, in New York. A plaque, presented to him by Mrs. Edna Lemle, President and Founder of the World Gratitude Day organisation, cites Sri Chinmoy for having “enhanced the spirit of globalism with his compassion, his creativity and nobility of spirit.”

Sri Chinmoy offers an early evening Peace Concert (13) and another Peace Concert (14) later the same evening at Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (38) at Palais des Congrès de Montréal to an audience of 6,000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (242) at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sudhahota Carl Lewis, Olympic Sprinter and Long-jump Champion, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Interfaith NGO Prayer Service for the Opening of UN General Assembly at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to C. Subramaniam, President of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy signs the special condolence book for Mother Teresa outside the Missionaries of Charity building in the Bronx, New York, NY, USA. Mother Teresa passed away in Calcutta, India on 5 September 1997, aged 87. 

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Ms. Page Hopkins from ‘New Jersey Talking’ for Cablevision 12 in New Jersey, USA.

Romania and St. Kitts & Nevis are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people at Schutzenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.

During a visit to Bratislava, Slovakia, Sri Chinmoy presents Pope John Paul II with ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme award and a copy of a book he had written about the Pontiff.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Museum of East and West in Odesa, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Elliot Richardson, US Spokesman at the UN Conference on Law of the Sea, former Cabinet Member under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and presents him with an original Jharna-Kala painting at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a seven-instrument concert – ‘Seven Earth-Cries Ascend, Seven Heaven-Smiles Descend’ – at Public School 86, Jamaica, NY, USA. After playing each instrument he recites an aphorism on which the audience meditates for ten minutes. 

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Recreation Trail in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, with an 800-metre running race along the trail for his students.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a 350½-lb. dumbbell, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, New York, NY,  USA. As a comparison to the weight Sri Chinmoy had earlier lifted, his students bring a calf also weighing about 350 pounds to his home that afternoon and a photo is taken of the original dumbbell, the calf and Sri Chinmoy holding a 70-lb. weight above his head.

Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, for the second time at the Maestro’s residence in the Dakota Building, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (241) at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD, USA.

A gala evening to celebrate Sri Chinmoy’s 60th birthday is held in the ballroom of the Manhattan Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (375) – the 37th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Washington State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia, WA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Theatergalerie in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

On a visit to Europe, Sri Chinmoy is given a tour of the international headquarters of Madal Bal, near Zurich in Switzerland. 

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 170 instruments for 7 hours, 40 minutes at the Kursaal Convention Centre in Interlaken, Switzerland.

New York Governor David Paterson recites a poem on hope by Sri Chinmoy, at the 9/11 memorial ceremony held at Ground Zero in New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘A Special Blessing and Power’, to the first few disciples of the AUM Centre who are meeting at his home at 3817 Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at ABC Haus Am Bahnhof in Cologne, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy paints ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’, a 13’ x 25’ canvas, in 47 minutes, in New York, NY, USA. The painting is later exhibited on a billboard in San Francisco, California, near Fisherman’s Wharf, sponsored by the Eyes and Ears Foundation.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (7) at the Holy Family Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (240) and also lifts Sugar Ray Leonard, 1976 Olympic gold medallist, boxing (light welterweight); and Daniel Nichols, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Office of Emergency Plans, US Department of State, at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is Interviewed by journalist Ms. Merle English from Newsday at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY,  USA. Her full-page article appears in the 'Queens Life' section of the Sunday edition of Newsday on 28 September 1997.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (594), which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 33 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name. He also receives a Citation of Honour from the Pluralism Project.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at Schützenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (6) at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy starts the San Juan Masters Track & Field Championships in Parque Central, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a meditation and a message to the athletes.  He also runs the 100-metre race in a time of 15.57 seconds — his best time of the year.

Sri Chinmoy sets a new personal record with a 640-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift. at 6:14 a.m. at his home gym in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. Nine minutes later, at 6:23 a.m. he sets another personal record when he bench presses an 840-lb. dumbbell.

Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest one-person lift by lifting Larry McConneghey, who weighs 735 lb., at Lookout Point in Riverside Park, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts two lion statues at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy pays a moving tribute to Nishtha Margaret Wilson, the eldest daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, in New York. She was one of the first Westerners to live permanently at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (239) at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (374) – the 36th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy visits the Sri Chinmoy 700-1000-1300-Mile Ultra-Distance Trio to inspire the competitors as they run the on the course at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Ukraine’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Alexander Volkov declares Ukraine a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Reinhart Helmke, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive-Director of the UN Office of Project Services (UNOPS); Murari Raj Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations; Dr. Anastase Gasane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations; Abie Grossfield, US Gymnastics Olympian in 1956 and 1960, coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team; Tim Jecko, Captain of the US Swim Team in 1956 Olympics, world-record holder in 3 swimming events; and Gail Marquis, 1976 Olympic silver medallist in women’s basketball, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 people at Hotel Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy honours composer and Oscar nominee Philip Glass by lifting him as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 33,000 Jharna-Kala paintings (2,000 paintings in 2 days) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy asks each of his visiting disciples who have not yet returned home after his birthday celebration, to give him one spiritual word, which he then enlarges upon. The exchange takes place in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. These spiritual words, and others, are later published in his book, I Need This Book’.

Sri Chinmoy performs on 31 musical instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.

A reception for Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala exhibition is sponsored by Senator Richard Kraus at Doric Hall, State House, in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (238) at the Opera House in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (278) at the Manhattan Center Studios in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kongress­zentrum Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities in Peace Studies from Professor Uon Sabo, at the International University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the first time the University had conferred the degree upon a foreigner. At the ceremony, Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk and performs on the esraj. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy lifts 85 pounds overhead from the ground using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (237) and also lifts numerous people, including the Venerable Maha Ghosananda, Supreme Patriarch of the exiled Cambodian Buddhist Order, at the Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (521) at Hala Sportowa Mera in Warsaw, Poland.

Sri Chinmoy invites disciples who had been on his path for under two years to offer him a spiritual word, on which he then elaborates. Later published in Rainbow-Flowers, part 3.

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

Sri Chinmoy has his 17th meeting with President Gorbachev at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter, Irina Virganskaya, is also present.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 88 people at Madal Bal Sewa in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, preceded by lifting 12 people, at Stadthalle in Gersthofen, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Elmer Gale (twice silver medallist, heavyweight division, North American Sumo Championships) and his 8-year-old daughter, Pax Galesantos (North American Judo Champion in her weight class) at Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Sports Day decathlon award by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 31,000th Jharna-Kala painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a function in honour of the Governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernández Colón at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in Grand Central Station, Manhattan,  New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 330 lb. with one arm; and during a standing calf-raise workout, lifts a total of 106 ton, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets Mani Shankar Mukherji, Bengali author and journalist, at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (236) at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (373), the 35th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

As Sri Chinmoy is preparing to meet with 1,700 of his students from Russia, Eastern Europe and Germany, he receives the news of Mother Teresa's passing. After a long period of silent meditation at the Mera Hall in Warsaw, Poland, Sri Chinmoy  offers an extemporaneous eulogy. He also sends a telegram of sympathy to Sister Nirmala and the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India.

Palau, Haiti and Vanuatu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy is  named the recipient of the prestigious Mother Teresa Award in Skopje, Macedonia. The annual Award, presented by the Humanitarian Organization Mother Teresa, is regarded as the country's highest national honour.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the ASV Mehrzweckhalle in Munich, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy, aged 72, participates in the shot put, discus, javelin, softball throw and the 100-track race at the annual Centre Sports Day event, held this year at Astoria Park in Queens, New York, USA.

 Sri Chinmoy offers a short talk, entitled ‘Expressions of Gratitude’ at a special meeting of the meditation group he leads at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with Bangladesh’s top-ranked junior tennis player Shovon Jamaly at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with World no. 1 Women’s Singles Tennis Champion Monica Seles, and then lifts her and her father in the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a rose to David Neath, Professor of International Economics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The City of Oslo is dedicat­ed as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital at the Holmenkollen Ski Jump, where the Peace Capital plaque is permanently mounted. The ceremony is attended by the Deputy Mayor Svenn Kristiansen, representatives of the City Council, an official from Bergen (another Sri Chinmoy Peace City) and other dignitaries. Oslo was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital a few weeks earlier by a unanimous vote of the City Council.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert(520) — dedicated to the memory of Princess Diana (1 July 1961-31 August 31 1997) — at Gamle Logen in Oslo, Norway.

Mozambique, Nicaragua and Nigeria are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy meets with renowned popular singer Addwitiya Roberta Flack; and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.