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Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for a nine-day visit to Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy gives his first radio talk on Radio Station WITA (‘Imparcial’). He speaks for eight minutes on the subject, ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’ 

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Temas del momento, ‘Themes of the moment’, a TV programme directed by Mr Evelio Otero, in Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Obedience’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK.

Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, and receives the UN Silver Medallion, at the United Nations in New York.

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

Why Do I Hide?, 8:30 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
I Am In Preparation, 12:20 p.m., John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA
Humility And Compassion, 6:25 p.m., In transit to New Jersey, USA
Obedience, 6:45 p.m., In transit to New Jersey, USA
I Need More, 9:05 p.m., Kean College, Union, NJ, USA
Salvation, Liberation, Realisation, Perfection and Satisfaction, 10:00 p.m., In transit to Jamaica, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 44-49) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Will Stone Collection in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs with his friend Alexandr Gorelik from the Russian Foreign Ministry in a special invitational 100-metre race during the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Queens, New York. He records a time of 15.07 seconds though, unfortunately, he injures himself and is unable to run again for eleven months.

Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial for the passing of his dear sister Lily (27 Oct circ 1920–16 May 1999) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy and the World's Parliament of Religions is published in Thikana, the most widely circulated Bangla newspaper.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Muhammad Ali’s daughter Khaliah Ali at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a short esraj concert.

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

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘I Know What To Do’, at the Retailer’s Centre in Haro Rey, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Garland of Nation-Souls’, to the United Nations World Youth Congress at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Experiences’, at Friends House in Brighton, UK.

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

It Is Not Enough, 7:40 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Awareness, Devotedness, Soulfulness And Selflessness, 12:50 p.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA
I Do Not Imitate; I Do Not Initiate, 10:00 p.m., North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 41-43) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including Therese Rossides, wife of Zenon Rossides, former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy honours his former boss at the Indian Consulate, the veteran Indian diplomat Mr. Lakhan Mehrotra, by lifting his daughter Aparna at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York. 

Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first sixteen of sixty-one traditional Sanskrit chants, in celebration of his upcoming 61st birthday on 27 August 1992. He completes the songs — later published in the songbook, I Prayerfully Bow — on 9 August.

Sri Chinmoy completes 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
 

Sri Chinmoy tells three spiritual stories — Inner Meditation and Outer Vibration, The Yogi’s Advice and With Hope-Food I Exist — subsequently published in the book, Is God Really Partial?

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

I Am Privileged, 12:40 p.m., Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
I Am Helpless, 12:45 p.m., Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
Get Up!, 5:35 p.m., Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
Don’t Suffer!, 5:45 p.m., Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA
Disciples, Followers, Admirers And Well-Wishers, 8:40 p.m., Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA
Reliance, 8:53 p.m., Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 35-40) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 60-lb. lift using only one-arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes words for Mozart’s ‘Minuet in G’ – the first time his words were set to classical music, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy wins the 100m race in 15.47 sec. and places 2nd in the 200m event in 31.78 sec., in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (357) — the 19th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Mr. John Cairns and Ms. Nix Picasso, two researchers who had collaborated with Mother Teresa on her book, ‘A Simple Path’, after Sri Chinmoy’s lunchtime meditation meeting at the United Nations.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,000-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise and a 2,000 lb. lift using a standing calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 55 people, including numerous professors at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. He also gives a short esraj concert.

Sri Chinmoy plays 51 of his own melodies on the sitar. The recording of this first-ever performance on the sitar is later released on a CD entitled ‘Impossibility Surrenders’.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan, where he presents one of his Jharna-Kala paintings to Michtko Sato, daughter of the late Head Priest Mitsuo Sato of Kōtoku-in Temple.

My Ivy League Leaves is the first book published by Chinmoy Publishing Company, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes his 1,000-poem volume, entitled Europe-Blossoms, which he began on 21 June 1974. The poems were all written during his trip to Europe. 

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘You do not Know, He does not Know, I do not Know’, at the Aum Center for Self-Realization, Yoga Center, in Ellicottville, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Happiness’, at the United Nations in New York.

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

Obedience was My Way of Life, 7:30 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
You and Your Perfection, 9:35 p.m.; Yoga and Oneness, 9:37 p.m.; Hatha Yoga, 9:39 p.m.; Intuition, 9:41 p.m.; Perfection, 9:43 p.m.; If You Have, Then Come to Me, 9:45 p.m., Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA.

These talks (nos. 28-34) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy and runners from the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run present the ‘Peace Torch’ to the manager of the NY Mets, Bud Harrelson, in front of thousands of baseball fans before the start of a home game at Shea Stadium, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, New York City.

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

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for the Italian magazine ‘Armonia’ in New York, USA.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 113 pilots in a single day, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, at Boeing Field Auditorium in Seattle, WA, USA. An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks also takes place at the same venue.

Sri Chinmoy is appointed an ‘Honorary Member’ of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of his outstanding assistance to the organisation. CAP is a civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF), that principally engages in search and rescue missions and the provision of emergency services.

Sri Chinmoy gives a brief talk about his songs, entitled ‘Participate, Participate!’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Tadatoshi Akiba, the Mayor of Hiroshima, and presents him with a Soul-Bird drawing at City Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Sri Chinmoy also offers a bouquet in a soulful tribute at the Peace Memorial.

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

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Learn’, at Southampton College Theatre, Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.

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

Illumination, 8:15 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Expectation, 1:50 p.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 26-27) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a 2-mile race, placing third in the men’s 40-49 age group in a time of 15 min. 51 sec., at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. Twenty minutes later, he runs a 5-mile race in a time of 43 min. 33 sec.

Sri Chinmoy meets folk singer Richie Havens when he visits the Madal Circus practice in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo Chira Alokito Antar, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (515) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 46th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada. He is welcomed by Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall.

Sri Chinmoy composes his 13,000th Bengali song Shakpura Shakpura Purba Shakpura Gram during an evening function with his students at the Kamakura Park Hotel in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Capacity’, at St. Thomas’ Church Hall in Vasteras, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love, Service and Transformation’, in White Plains, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on National Public Radio and broadcast nationwide throughout the USA.

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

You are Spiritual, 8:10 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Spirituality, 10:00 p.m., St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 24-25) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 5 miles in a time of 38:11 (7:38/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at the ‘Runners are Smilers’ race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 100m in the West (13.67 sec.), and 200m (29.69 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field, in Forest Park, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (356) — the 18th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Josephine Davis, President of York College — a branch of the City University of New York, based in Queens — at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

The Guyanese & Caribbean International Voice publishes an article about Sri Chinmoy’s recent meeting with Mother Teresa in New York.

Sri Chinmoy bench presses a 700-lb. dumbbell, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The Hindu — an online Indian newspaper — reports on Sri Chinmoy opening the week-long Parliament of the World’s Religions with a silent meditation in Barcelona, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mount Fuji’s Sengen Jinja shrine in Fujiyama, Japan. On the same day, he composes the song, ‘He Mount Fuji He Mount Fuji’.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret of Joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives one spiritual talk, part of 100 lectures in 20 days.

I am a born prayer, 8:15 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA

This talk (no. 23) is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1

At 1:30 p.m., Sri Chinmoy offers an open-air concert at Fort Tryon Park, located near the famous medieval art museum "The Cloisters" in Upper Manhattan.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receptivity’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. He also completes a 7-mile solo run in 54 min. 53 sec., as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ series, in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy completes 7,000 poems in one year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (119) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre race (15.29 sec.), 600-gm javelin (27.26m), 1-kg discus (23.70m) and 4-kg shot put (8.65m) at Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Victory Field in Forest Park, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘No Expectation’, at his home in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting is published in the ‘Sport Around the World’ section of DELO, one of the main daily newspapers in Slovenia.

Sri Chinmoy lifts five members of the US Congress: Neil Abercrombie, Congressman from Hawaii; Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York; Sanford Bishop, Congressman from Georgia; Benjamin A. Gilman, Congressman from New York; Ed Towns, Congressman from New York, at the Rayburn Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in, in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at ABF Huset in Stockholm, Sweden.

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

Realisation, 7:50 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
A Fleeting Life, 11:25 a.m., John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA
I Wish to be Free, 3:20 p.m., Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT, USA
Experience and Realisation, 9:20 p.m., North Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Rochelle, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 19-22) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, part 1.

Sri Chinmoy honours Eleanor Adams, a British ultra-distance runner who had recently won the New York six day race with a new world record of 739.36 kilometres (459.42 mi) Eleanor Adams held nearly 40 world records in a range of events from 30 miles to the 6 Day Race.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Aspiration-Ground’.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 prominent New Zealanders, including Rod Dixon, 1972 Olympic bronze medallist in 1,500m, and 1983 New York City Marathon winner, at the Regent Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand.

The US state of New Jersey is proclaimed a Sri Chinmoy Peace State by Governor Jim Florio.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Conference on World Religions at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona is published in The Indian Express.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ganesh Hindu Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Willow, Woodstock, NY, USA. Read more...

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

Imagination, 7:35 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
My Lifelong Friends, 12:35 p.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA
Aspiration, 9:30 p.m., Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA

These talks (nos. 16-18) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centro De Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The 75 paintings filled the entire museum.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening silent meditation for an international gathering of several hundred Hindu leaders, on the final day of the 10th World Hindu Conference, held at Madison Square Garden in  New York, NY USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, delivers a talk, entitled ‘Stupidity, Insecurity and Fear’, and recites 6 peace poems, at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 17th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy sets to music ‘August 15, 1945’, his epic 194-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo on his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Spirituality’, at ABF Huset, Sveavägen, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Aspiring Life’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA. On display are seven thousand paintings — just part of the 27,000 works Sri Chinmoy had completed in an eight-month period.

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

Austerity, 7:15 a.m., Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA
Smile, Love and Claim, 9:15 p.m., Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, USA

These talks (nos. 14 & 15) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 50 lb. using one arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, delivers a talk, entitled ‘I Need’, and recites 5 peace poems, at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ.

Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, including one finger painting, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy opens the week-long Fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions at the Universal Forum for Cultures in Barcelona, Spain, with a silent meditation and a performance of his music on the esraj. Watch video and read more

Sri Chinmoy meets with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in Barcelona, Spain.

Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for Prabhu Jagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA.