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Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Students, Devotees and Disciples’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at 7:30 p.m. on the Greenwich Civic Center, Greenwich, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 13,000th spiritual song, — which also happens to be his 8,000th Bengali song, ‘Phukai Amara Jibana Samare’ — in Jamaica, NY, USA. The words to the other 5,000 songs are mostly written in English, with some French and other languages.

Sri Chinmoy holds a celebration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, for his 13,000 Bengali songs, which he had completed earlier in the month while on a visit to Japan.

Sri Chinmoy returns to New York after a 10-day visit to Puerto Rico.

An article published in The New York Times, reports on the ceremony for the National Day of Prayer (24 July) opened by Sri Chinmoy at the UN Church Centre of the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Concert at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (592) at the Landmark Community Center in Port Washington, NY, USA. At the concert, he recites 20 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best lift of 1,200 lbs. using a double dumbbell bench press (600 lbs. in each hand), in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee and his wife Sanghamitra, one of India’s leading vocalists, at the ’Oneness, Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon’ function at Aspiration–Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Meditation’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy leads the first National Day of Prayer Observance at the United Nations in New York.

The Aletsch Glacier in Valais, Switzerland, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Glacier.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (361) — the 23rd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Bayard Taylor School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a message of congratulations from Mother Teresa, Founder, Missionaries of Charity, soon after his Peace Concerts at the Library of Congress and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (516) at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

Peru and Swaziland are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

An article about Sri Chinmoy at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona is published in New York Newsday.

Sri Chinmoy visits Long Island Sound in New York, NY, USA, for a special ceremony in remembrance of his elder brother Mantu who had passed away earlier in the year at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry India.

Sri Chinmoy announces the completion of his 15 millionth Soul-Bird drawing to his students during a boat trip from World’s Fair Marina, Queens, to Long Island Sound, in New York, NY, USA. He also tells stories about his wrestling experiences of his youth while at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India.

Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joins the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stays for the next twenty years before coming to the West. His eldest brother Hriday had already left the family home in Chittagong almost twelve years earlier to join the Ashram. On this day, all seven children of Shashi Kumar and Yogamaya Ghosh are reunited.

A twenty-year-old ‘Chinmoy’ competes in track and field events, including the pole vault, on Sports Day at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St. Xavier High School, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for his students at a picnic area in Hidden Valley Park, near Woodstock, New York. He offers everyone bags of prasad containing 100 items in honour of the recent completion of his 100 ‘Everest-Aspiration’ talks.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy takes a group of children on a trip from New York to Niagara Falls. During the long bus ride, the children ask him a number of questions and he, in turn, asks each of them several questions. These are later published in a book entitled, Niagara Falls versus Children’s Rise.

The four-time Olympic gold medallist, Al Oerter attends the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field, New York. Al Oerter's best discus throw was in the region of 201 feet, which would have placed him sixth at the Olympic trials at the age of 53!

Sri Chinmoy performs a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 champion runners and athletes, including Sudhahota Carl Lewis, 9-time Olympic gold medallist; Butch Reynolds, Olympic gold and silver medallist, 400m; and Jim Hines, Olympic gold medallist 100m, at the ‘The Morning of Champion-Hearts Supreme’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (360) — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy writes thirty-eight poems in tribute to John F. Kennedy, Jr. (25 Nov. 1960-16 Jul. 1999) — one for each year of his life on earth. The poems are later published in John Kennedy: The World-Treasure-Home.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.

Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.

India Post, published in America, reports on Sri Chinmoy’s involvement in the fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Aum Centre — later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre — in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It is legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.)

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the seventh anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presents President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Action’, in the Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations, at the United Nations, New York.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (10), at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy sets a new weightlifting record by raising 200 lbs. with each arm separately, using a seated double-arm machine, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy answers a question about Creativity and Spirituality, in New York, NY, USA. 

Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.

Sri Chinmoy gives talks on ‘Karma Yoga’ and ‘Jnana Yoga’ at the home of Lakshmi and Narayan (Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Elvira), on San Jose Street in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Dedication’, at the University of Reykjavik, in Reykjavik, Iceland – completing his third European lecture tour – later published in My Rose Petals, Part 4.

Sri Chinmoy first plays the Indian flute, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.

An article in the New York-based daily newspaper Newsday reports on the contribution Sri Chinmoy’s “Run and Become” philosophy has had on the worldwide running community.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1,500 metres (6 min.15 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

 Sri Chinmoy offers the "Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart" award to H.E. Dr. Jorge E. Illueca, former President of Panama - 21 July 1989

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (359) — the 21st of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert (413) — the 13th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — in the Madison Building at the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (414) — the 14th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.

Niger and Panama are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Quincy Jones, musician, composer, arranger and producer, at his home in Los Angeles; and later lifts Lee Underwood, musician, biographer, music critic and author, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Northwest Auditorium at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Is Yoga?’ and an explanation of ‘Bhakti Yoga’, at the home of Sita (Mrs. Maria Teresa Gonzalez) in Rio Pedro, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy appears on television for the first time. He is interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks, part of 100 lectures in 20 days.

It Is Never Too Late, 6:15 a.m., God Has Made This World Round, 6:20 a.m., Am I A Giver?, 6:35 a.m., Is It My Fate?, 6:45 a.m., What Am I Doing?, 8:10 a.m., Without Man And Without God, 8:15 a.m., My Heart-To-Heart Talk, 8:20 a.m., and Never Make An Outer Promise, 8:30 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA Struggle, 12:15 p.m., Special Messages, 12:30 p.m., Transformation, 12:40 p.m., Why Do I Not Share?, 12:50 p.m., Substitutes, 1:00 p.m., Now, 1:15 p.m., I Kept Praying, 1:30 p.m., Newness, 5:00 p.m., Why Are You In A Hurry?, 5:10 p.m., and Dreaming And Planning, 5:20 p.m., at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
Are You The Lamp Of God?, 9:40 p.m., Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT, USA

These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4.

It marks the completion of the 100 Everest-Aspiration talks.

Sri Chinmoy composes his famous song, ‘Everest-Aspiration!’ — which coincides with the 4th anniversary of the completion of his 100 Everest-Aspiration talks — in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago; and Beverly Owens, daughter of Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist, at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (198), recites four peace poems and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, in Arie Crown Theater, at McCormick Place, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games held at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA.

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

An exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Payton Jordan, US Track and Field Olympian and coach, holder of over 60 world records in Masters sprinting, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Puerto Rico’, under the auspices of the YMCA of Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, at the Grand Hall, Caxton Hall, in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an ‘Honorary Resident of Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón.

Sri Chinmoy gives four more spiritual talks as part of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Acceptance, 7:30 a.m., Empty Moments, 7:40 a.m., and Do You Want To Be Perfect?, 7:45 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Where Are They?, 10:15 p.m., Co-op City, Bronx, New York, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 78-81) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4.

Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon concert (4 p.m.) at the ‘Center for the Light’ in New Marlborough, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Champaklal-ji from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. Champaklal-ji was one of the closest attendant-disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (79) at Retretti Concert Hall in Punkaharju, Finland.

Sri Chinmoy completes 5,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 480-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift (240 lbs. with both arms simultaneously) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 2,100-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise machine in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives his first esraj concert, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks as part of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Off The Path, 6:45 a.m., Disobedience Is The Order Of The Day, 6:55 a.m., and The Red Stoplight, 8:15 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Yesterday Was The Time, 12:30 p.m., To Be Divinely Great, 12:35 p.m., If You Want To Be Great, 12:40 p.m., and Gratitude, 12:45 p.m., at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
In The Human World, 7:00 p.m., Our Beloved Supreme, 7:05 p.m., God’s Compassion Flows, God’s Justice Grows, 7:10 p.m., To Live In The Desire-World, 7:15 p.m., I Was A Student Of Prayer, 7:20 p.m., I Wanted To Tell God, 7:25 p.m., I Lived Only Twice, 7:30 p.m., I Shall Sing Today, 7:35 p.m., and The Purpose Of Human Life, 7:40 p.m., in transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA

What More Can I Give You?, 8:00 p.m., Divine Pilgrimage, 8:00 p.m., and Lord Of My Life, Friend Of My Heart, 8:20 p.m., at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA

These talks (nos. 59-77) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 3 and Part 4.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (78) and delivers a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed about his weightlifting by Marty Gallagher, editor and publisher of Strength Review Magazine, accompanied by Hugh Cassidy, former world powerlifting champion. The interview takes place before Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (120) at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates and offers a concert performance at the annual puja in the Geeta Temple, Elmhurst, NY, USA. He is also presented with the Purushottam Mas Peace Award.

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

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy juggles three balls over 450 times in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gives nine spiritual talks, part of a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.

Charity, 7:35 a.m., and Examination, 8:40 a.m., at Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Gifts, 3:00 p.m., Who Is The Winner?, 3:05 p.m., Two Trains, 3:10 p.m., Who Is Knocking?, 3:15 p.m., Disobedience And Penalty, 3:20 p.m., and Secrets, 3:25 p.m., in transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA
Something is missing, 9:10 p.m., American University, Washington, DC, USA

These talks (nos. 50-58) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed in Bengali by jour­nalist Kamal Ashish Chakravarty from ‘Voice of America’ in Washington, DC, USA. The taped programme, which includes a short esraj performance by Sri Chinmoy, is later broad­cast on Hindi and Bengali radio stations throughout Bangladesh and India, and is heard by Sri Chinmoy’s family in Pondicherry.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first in a series of chalk poems, which he writes on the green scoreboard at the side of his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. He refers to the tennis court for the first time as ‘Illumination-Ground’. (Later, he will give it the permanent name of ‘Aspiration-Ground’.)

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Life’, at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to Dag Hammarskjöld, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Who Can Grant Me Peace?’, at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert with an organ performance — the 20th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.

Seventy thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA.

A photo of Sri Chinmoy is featured in an article published in The Vancouver Sun about the Parliament of the World’s Religions.

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