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Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘You or I?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1 mile (6:23) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a Certificate of Merit from the Government of Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Amritananda Russell Barber, WNBC Television Producer; and Bev Francis, six-time Women’s World Power Lifting Champion in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of Soul-Birds drawings at 66 Crosby St,​ ​​​​​​in Soho, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers his soulful words of “blessingful love, blessingful joy and blessingful pride,” to the participants of the first annual Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Race — 12 June-1 August — at the Awards Ceremony held at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica New York, NY, USA.

Mt. Everest is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 members of the Italian soccer team AC Milan at Giants Stadium in Secaucus, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives his first public violin recital, during which he played his most sacred song, ‘The Invocation to the Supreme’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs 4 miles from his house to the National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Park in a time of 37:00. He then race walks another 4 miles, posting a personal best in 47:20 (11:50 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Surrender’, at the University of Delaware, in Newark, DE, USA.

Sri Chinmoy places first in the Sri Chinmoy Tennis Tournament for Priests and Rabbis, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy race walks a personal best for 100 metres in 23.09 seconds in Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Uzbekistan television, in Jamaica, NY, USA. For the occasion, he dons traditional Samarkand robes in honour of his great grandfather who came from that city in the former Soviet Union.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (367) — the 29th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (418) — the 18th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy whistles bhajans — short devotional songs he had composed — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Republic of Kiribati is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people including two Japanese children as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy finishes setting to music ‘Kshamar Adarshar’, the immortal Bengali story The Ideal of Forgiveness by Sri Aurobindo that Sri Chinmoy rendered into Bengali verse in 1946 at the age of 14. At a total of 200 lines, it is Sri Chinmoy’s longest Bengali song. (He also rendered it into an English iambic pentameter poem of 107 lines in 1956.) – Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Ambassadors from the United Nations as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme. Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy hosts the diplomats at ‘Pilgrim-Museum’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Tenth Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race (June 10–August 10) finishes in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. The overall race winner is Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk from Solingen in Germany in a time of 41 days + 08:16:29; and the first woman is Suprabha Beckjord from Washington, DC USA, in a time of 60 days + 04:35:24.

Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for elite runners at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA. There, Sri Chinmoy also meets with Fred Lebow, President of the New York Road Runners Club and founder of the New York City Marathon.

Sri Chinmoy runs 400 metres in a time of 1 min. 20.4 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix held at Jamaica High School Track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Cable TV in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (11) at Santa Ana Stadium in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (17) — the 17th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a Birthday Greeting that includes a gift of a traditional Russian ‘Gzel’ jug, from Aleksandr A. Razvin, Russia’s Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and his wife Valentina. 

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (417) at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy holds an evening ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

As a young child, Madal (Chinmoy) is brought to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, by his parents for the first time for a short visit. At just under 2 years of age, he travels with his family on the four-day steam train journey from Chittagong in East Bengal. The family undertakes three more round trips to the Ashram in 1936, 1939 and 1941 – each time covering the arduous, 5,000-km journey – before all children finally become permanent members of the Ashram after both parents pass away in 1944. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy held a small group meditation at the summer home of Mr. Sam Spanier in Mount Tremper, NY, USA

Sri Chinmoy meditates at a special function to honour Indira Gandhi at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by KPFK-FM radio in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Listen to the interview...

Sudhahota Carl Lewis presents Sri Chinmoy with his winner’s bouquet, moments after receiving his gold medal for the 100 metres at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy carries the Peace Torch for the last leg of the first Peace Run in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 55th anniversary of his first visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on August 8, 1933 – in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Siddhartha Shankar Ray, India’s Ambassador to the United States, during a special tribute programme in his honour, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (416) — the 16th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 1,301 poems in 22 hours and 45 minutes, later published in Two God-Amusement-Rivals: My Heart-Song-Beauty And My Life-Dance-Fragrance, Parts 1-13, at an average pace of one poem every 63 seconds, his most prolific outpouring written within a 24-hour period, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Pondicherry in India is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom. Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from Dr. Rajani Ra, Lieutenant-Governor of Pondicherry.

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

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Vanuatu Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including numerous professors at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, USA. He also gives a short esraj concert.

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

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Radio WLUZ by the well-known Puerto Rican radio personality Senor Jose Miguel Agrelot in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘What Is Our True Necessity?’, to members of the Finance Department of the Government of Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Goal’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

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

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Halifax, NS, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks are exhibited throughout the month of August at 170 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prayer and Meditation’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy runs a 3-mile race, in a time of 23:00 minutes as part of the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix, held at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Peace Meditation’ at US Senate, where he also lifts W. Susantade Alwis, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the UN; Michael Sheriffs, Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN, at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the Eastern Regional Championships at Randall’s Island in Manhattan, NY, USA. He runs the 100-metre race taking just 65.5 strides in 14.59 sec., which is his fastest electronic timing to date.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks, featuring his first 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings, opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 6 Crosby St., Soho, in New York, NY, USA.

The first annual Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Race (12 June-1 August) concludes outside Thomas Edison Vocational High School in Jamaica, NY, USA. The race was conducted on a certified .5488 mile loop (883.2079 metres) on a paved sidewalk surrounding the school. With a 51-day cut-off, only two out of the five starters, completed the 3,100 miles — Edward Kelley (1st man) in 47 days + 15:19:56, and Suprabha Beckjord (1st woman) in 50 days + 02:09:56. And, two others — Georgs Jermolajevs and Aleksandar Arsic —finished 2700 miles.

An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting is published in the weekly German newspaper Die Andere Realität (The Other Germany).

Sri Chinmoy honours Dr. Ananda Guruge, the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the USA, and his wife Darshanika at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy attends the closing ceremony of his Jharna-Kala artworks exhibition at Newark International Airport in Newark, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Last Night I Had a Very, Very, Very Significant Dream’, at the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Patience’, at All Angels’ Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the final of 28 concerts given in July as part of his ‘Everest-Aspiration’ series – at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs 200 metres in 33.6 seconds — his personal best time in America — during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Starr-Camargo Bridge linking the USA with Mexico across the Rio Grande, from Rio Grande City in Texas to Camargo, Tamaulipas, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge during the 1991 ‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.

Sri Chinmoy observes his astrological birthday with a morning meditation, during which he walks up and down the tennis court very slowly three times, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (364) — the 26th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Founder and President of the Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and also lifts him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – at Aspiration Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He warms up by lifting solid iron plates (including apparatus) weighing 800 lbs.

Sri Chinmoy’s writings begin to appear regularly in El Mundo in Puerto Rico under the heading ‘Una Pausa en el Dia’. Sri Chinmoy’s words are translated into Spanish by Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro).

Sri Chinmoy holds a Joy Day at Old Mill Farm in Harrison, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the first anniversary of the Blue Centre with a mediation and gives a special message to the Centre members.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Victoria, BC, Canada.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Remarks about Sri Chinmoy’s 50th Birthday are read into the US Congressional Record by the Hon. Benjamin S. Rosenthal of New York in the House of Representatives.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,500 lbs. using a standing calf raise at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 boxing champions, including Don Lalonde, WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a talk about boxing, which he dedicates to the legendary boxer Joe Louis, ‘The Brown Bomber’.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Hollis Conway, 1988 Olympic high jump silver medallist, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (363) — the 25th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a lecture entitled ‘Tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld’, on the birth anniversary of the UN’s second Secretary-General (b. 29 July 1905), in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, at the United Nations in New York. 

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Consul General of India in Chicago, Mr. Pran Nevile, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Chicago. IL, USA.

The first Sri Chinmoy Triathlon is held in Groton, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best in the West for 800 metres (2:47) on the road at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on 150th Street in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Seventy-five of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala, ‘Fuente de Arte’, paintings are exhibited (8-29 July) for the first time in Latin America at Centro de Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Joe Franklin, TV talk show host of the ‘Joe Franklin Show’, and tapes an interview with him in Secaucus, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, where he meets with Olympic Relay champions Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh, at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song, entitled ‘The New York Games’, for the occasion.

Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre event at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in a time of 18.56 seconds, at Victory Field, Queens, New York, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Addwitiya Roberta Flack in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Kristio Wahyono, Consul-General of Indonesia to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 6 planes and a glider at Brookhaven Airport on Long Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Joy’, at the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, in NewYork.

Sri Chinmoy runs 2 miles in a time of 14 min. 33 sec. (7:16/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a reception for Vinay Verma, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (233) at the Bösendorfer Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (362) — the 24th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 professors at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Great Drikung Kagyu Yogi, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves an 800-lb. lift using a seated one-arm lift at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy and his students perform a concert of spiritual music in the auditorium of Public School 86, at the intersection of Parsons Blvd and 87th Ave, Jamaica, NY, USA.

Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday are read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.

The Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix — 31 races over 31 days — begins, in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday. Sri Chinmoy runs 440 yards (402.3 m) in a time of 1 min. 21.1 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs 7 miles solo in a time of 52:58 (a 7:34/mile pace) in Westerly, and offers a concert at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ tour. During the run, he records unofficial personal bests times for 4 miles (30:21), 5 miles (38:07), 6 miles (45:47) and 10 kilometres (47:11).

The Governor of Rhode Island proclaims Sri Chinmoy Day and awards Sri Chinmoy honorary citizenship in the state. Providence and four other cities issue proclamations.

The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. More than 400 people come to celebrate his peace-bird project, which he calls ‘My Three Million Heart-Bird-God-Manifestation-Songs’. Events include, silent meditation, musical performances, a play and a huge meal.

Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving, at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ function at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also give a short esraj concert.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 31st anniversary of his first bamboo straight flute performance — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

A tribute to Sri Chinmoy is read into the Congressional Record by Hon. Gary L. Ackerman of New York in the House of Representatives, in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.