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Sri Chinmoy and his students visit Old Mill Farm in Harrison, NY, USA,  for a Joy Day that includes meditations and other spiritual activities such as singing and plays.

The Rockland County Times reports on a  50-mile run held on a looped course around Rockland Lake in Congers, NY, USA. Several hundred of Sri Chinmoy’s students take part in the event —starting at 9 p.m. on 26 August and finishing early the next morning on 27 August — to honour their spiritual teacher’s 50th birthday. 

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Ramesh Krishnan, India’s no. 1 tennis champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Troy Fidler, Australian Male Triathlete of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Nine-time track and field Olympic gold medalist Sudhahota Carl Lewis visits with Sri Chinmoy at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The  is accompanied by Jeffrey Marx, his literary collaborator.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Mall Gallery in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ’All the Branches of the Life-Tree’, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York,NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the shot put, javelin and discus, as well as the 100-metre race at Sports Day in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 100 miles of running in one week in the Jamaica environs, New York, NY, USA. He also composed a song, entitled ‘One Hundred Miles’.

Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Dr. Peter Wilenski, Australia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. After playing tennis with the ambassador and lifting him, Sri Chinmoy requests his Australian students to sing a song that he had composed, entitled ‘My Australia’. 

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Shibuya-ku Omotesando Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Mr. Radhakrishna Pathak, Associate Editor of a newspaper in Delhi, India, at Aspiration-Ground in Jsmsica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a private service in memory of Princess Diana (1 July 1961-31 August 1997) at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (568) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Azerbaijan and Honduras are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Simferopol, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy wins first place in a poetry contest in Jean’s Journal for his poem ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’.

Some of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms are placed inside fortune cookies, which he hands out to his disciples. He then asks them to read out the meditation in their cookie, and proceeds to elaborate on each one. These aphorisms (1-74) given to the New York Centre on 1 September 1974, as well as aphorisms (75-168) given to the Manhattan Centre on 14 September 1974 are later published in his book, Fortune-Philosophy

A Jharna-Kala gallery, displaying Sri Chinmoy’s paintings, opens at 133 West 24th Street in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The exhibition will be open seven days a week throughout the month of September.

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (4) at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Saoul Mamby, 1980-82 World Welterweight Boxing Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Richard Schneider, Chancellor of the World Peace University, Oregon, and the founding Chairman of Radio for Peace International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (372) – the 34th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy appears the German newspaper Der Standard with the headline ‘Exercising at an advanced age’. Sri Chinmoy is 69 years-old and still lifting enormous weights.

Sri Chinmoy holds a programme honouring Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy reaches the halfway point (poem no. 38,500) of his epic poetry series, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees. The poem appears in volume 39.

Sri Chinmoy completes From the Source to the Source, 401 rhyming poems, which he began on 3 August 1977.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Diploma of International Recognition from the World Fellowship of Buddhists.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (371) — the 33rd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy uses a dumbell bench press to lift 800 pounds (400 pounds simultaneously with each arm) at his home gym in New York. The video of this lift is subsequently shown in a news interview, broadcast on Channel 2 in New York on 8 September 2000.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Indian sarod player Vijay Shankar Mishra at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York, NY, USA, inspiring his disciples to practice for next year’s marathon, just the day after the inaugural Self-Transcendence Marathon at Rockland Lake State Park had taken place.

Sri Chinmoy drives ‘Madal Express’ — a miniature steam train — at Aspiration-Ground in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 72 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City; Richard Murphy, Queens Commissioner of Parks, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a function for doctors at the Jharna-Kala gallery at 937 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the official benediction at the first Pan American Track and Field Masters Championship, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre event at the Pan American Track & Field Masters Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He clocks a time of 16.01 seconds.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (464) at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously comments on 24 spiritual words offered by his disciples. They are subsequently published in the first part of Rainbow-Flowers, part 3.

The Philippines and St. Vincent are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Côte d’Ivoire is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

The first Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence Marathon is held in Rockland Lake State Park, Congers, NY, USA, attracting over 700 runners. It becomes an annual event. Watch the video of the first race...

Sri Chinmoy performs a 140-lb. wrist curl 20 times with each wrist in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Martina Navratilova, legendary tennis player, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts his own small car in the driveway of Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Madal, Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy, Guru’. These are the names by which Sri Chinmoy has been known — Madal, as a young boy; Chinmoy, during his years at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram; Sri Chinmoy, publicly in the West; and Guru, by his disciples and friends. 
 

Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Race13-mile race in a time of 2:41:03 at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 Japanese nationals in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for the Nation Federation of Indian-American Associations Exhibit, at which his Jharna-Kala paintings are featured, at Sheraton Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Irina Malikova, Chief of International Programs, the Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow, Russia, at the Armenian Church in New York NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a sunrise Peace Concert in the State Ballroom of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA. Afterwards, Ananda Guruge, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the US and President for Sri Lanka of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, comes to the podium and presents Sri Chinmoy with a book he has dedicated to him. He then reads out his dedication.

Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘The Light of India’ Award in recognition of “his ceaseless and selfless efforts for universal brotherhood, understand­ing, friendship and peace,” from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan USA, at the World Music Concert in honour of the 50th anniversary of India’s independence.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ismail Merchant, 6-time Academy Award-winning producer and director; Mercedes Ruehl, Academy Award winner and Tony Award winner – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Leander Paes, India’s top tennis champion, who plays mixed doubles with Martina Navratilova, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 members of the Youth Choir in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at a concert given by Boris Purushottama Grebenshikov at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert with his disciples, called ‘Sri Chinmoy with his Music Family’, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people at New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Pia Zadora, renowned singer, in Jamaica NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Town Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy leads a five-minute silent meditation at the opening of the main plenary session of the Parliament of the World’s Religions at Palmer House in Chicago IL, USA. The nine-day conference has brought together leaders of every major religion in the world and is the first such parliament convened in 100 years. In 1893, Swami Vivekananda was the first person to address a western audience with his soul-stirring speeches on  Hinduism.

Guyana and Uzbekistan are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 48 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is born on Thursday, August 27th 1931 — an hour before sunset  — in the small village of East Shakpura, Chittagong, Bengal. He is the youngest of seven children born to mother Yogamaya Ghosh and father Shashi Kumar Ghosh.

The first issue of AUM magazine, “a monthly journal devoted to the spiritual writings of Chinmoy Kumar Ghose,” is published. It is printed by Boro Park Printers on New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.

Sri Chinmoy composes his most sacred song, the ‘Invocation’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s 40th birthday is celebrated in Jamaica, New York, USA.

The first week-long birthday celebration for Sri Chinmoy is held in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs the first act of his play about Jesus Christ — The Son — playing both the roles of the Supreme and the Christ, at Thomas A. Edison High School, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs on 27 different instruments for the first time, playing all songs from memory, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives his second performance on 27 different instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plants a Meditation Tree on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Beginning at midnight, a 47-mile run honouring Sri Chinmoy’s 47th birthday was held at Jamaica High School Track and surrounds, in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. In this inaugural race, which continues to be held annually, 58 of Sri Chinmoy’s students take part.

All five boroughs of New York City – Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island – are proclaimed August 27, 1978, as ‘Sri Chinmoy Day’. Queens Councilman Morton Povman personally comes to Jamaica High School Track in Queens to wish Sri Chinmoy happy birthday and present him with the borough’s proclamation.

Sri Chinmoy performs from memory 47 new Bengali songs, Bela Chale Jai, at his evening birthday function at the Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, CT, USA. The book is published the same day in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs his first ultra-marathon —  47 miles in 12:41:48 — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 47 miles in a time of 11:27:24 (14:37 pace) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs 50 songs to selected poems from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s hand-written book ‘I meditate So that’ is published in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, which includes improvisations on the synthesizer, esraj and sitar – later released on cassette as Joy-Ripples.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 48 English poems from The Goal Is Won in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 55 English poems from his 700th book My God-Hunger-Dreams; and also performed on 63 instruments at New Rochelle, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 62nd birthday at Aspiration-Ground in New York, NY, USA. And a tennis milestone is achieved — in the one year since his last birthday, Sri Chinmoy played a total of 3100 games of tennis. 

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree of ‘Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations’ from the St. Petersburg State University of Education, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Sri Chinmoy sang some of his famous Avatar songs at his birthday celebration function at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Watch the video...

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

Sri Chinmoy composes and performs 70 new Bengali songs on his 70th Birthday at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York. The songs are later published as The Tears and Smiles of a God-Fragrance-Heart.

Sri Chinmoy receives Heart of Bhutan, Heart of Guyana and Heart of Samoa Awards.

Cameroon, Senegal and Tuvalu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

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

Sri Chinmoy receives the Crystal Apple Award from New York City Council, presented by Councilman Jimmy Gennaro, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs on various instruments at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, singing 206 Bengali songs by heart in two sessions, to an audience of 1,500 at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The same day, his students present him with a 46-foot-long birthday cake containing over 27,000 candles — a Guinness World Record.

The Luminous Life of Sri Chinmoy is the first biography printed by an outside publisher, in Delhi, India.

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

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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Know Thyself’, at the University of Puerto Rico, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 104 Greene Street, Soho, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy performs 99 new Bengali songs, later published as Supreme, Teach Me How to Surrender in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy attends a ‘Happy Birthday’ parade in his honour. The parade marches up Madison Ave. from 23rd St. to 72nd St. in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and performs on the esraj at an open-air concert held in a large field on land owned by the non-profit Creative Music Foundation, Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs all 31 races and won the master’s division in the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix, held in the Queens’ environs, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy has his last telephone conversation with Mother Teresa from Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy attends a parade held in honour of his 70th birthday, in Queens, New York. NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 70 instruments for his 70th birthday, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Wyclef Jean, 3-time Grammy Award winner, hip-hop, rap and reggae musician, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy leg presses for 40 minutes on the Merry-Go-Round Lift holding 8 women weighing a total of 2,418 lbs.; lifts 1,200 lbs. with a seated double-arm dumbbell press; lifts 1,200 lbs. with a double dumbbell bench press; lifts 120 lbs. 2 times using a tricep exercise machine with pulley; raises a 90-lb. dumbbell 30 times with each arm overhead using a seated one-arm lift; lifts 100 lbs. 10 times with each arm using a seated dumbbell top curl; and spontaneously composes 94 English songs from poems previously written for his 74th birthday.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 74 wind instruments for 74th birthday, for an audience of 1,500 at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis on 9 different machines to honour his 9 gold medals in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metres in 14.7 sec; achieves a 600-gm javelin throw of 28.19m; a mark of 9.21m in the 8-lb shot put; and a personal best discus throw in the West of 27.90m; and at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day at SUNY in New Paltz, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes six versions of Madal Circus Theme Song in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a long jump distance of 3.32m at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day at Victory Field, Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy opens the World Music Festival with a short meditation and musical performance. The concert, dedicated to global harmony, is sponsored by the Indian cultural association Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) and held at the Paramount Theater in Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA.

Greece, Italy and Tajikistan are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniya Swami, founder and publisher of Hinduism Today magazine and International Hindu Leader, at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy lifts 39 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.