September
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1971
Sri Chinmoy wins first place in a poetry contest in Jean’s Journal for his poem ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’.
1974
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
1981
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.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (4) at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Saoul Mamby, 1980-82 World Welterweight Boxing Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
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.
1993
Peace Concert dedication: “Today’s Peace Concert I am lovingly and soulfully offering to Swami Vivekananda, who came into the world to illumine humanity’s doubting mind and to feed humanity’s hungry heart.” — Sri Chinmoy
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.
2000
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.
2000
Sri Chinmoy holds a programme honouring Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Colombia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2004
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.
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1979
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’.
1990
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’.
1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Shibuya-ku Omotesando Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
1996
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Mr. Radhakrishna Pathak, Associate Editor of a newspaper in Delhi, India, at Aspiration-Ground in Jsmsica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy holds a private service in memory of Princess Diana (1 July 1961-31 August 1997) at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (568) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Azerbaijan and Honduras are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Simferopol, Ukraine.
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1975
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.
1981
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.
1988
Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Ramesh Krishnan, India’s no. 1 tennis champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Troy Fidler, Australian Male Triathlete of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1998
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.
2001
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Mall Gallery in London, UK.
2003
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ’All the Branches of the Life-Tree’, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York,NY, USA.
2004
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.
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1973
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.
1985
Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with Bangladesh’s top-ranked junior tennis player Shovon Jamaly at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
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.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a rose to David Neath, Professor of International Economics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
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.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (520) — dedicated to the memory of Princess Diana (1 July 1961-31 August 1997) — at Gamle Logen in Oslo, Norway.
2000
Mozambique, Nicaragua and Nigeria are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with renowned popular singer Addwitiya Roberta Flack; and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1959
Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Sports Day decathlon award by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes his 31,000th Jharna-Kala painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1978
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.
1986
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.
1986
Sri Chinmoy meets Mani Shankar Mukherji, Bengali author and journalist, at the United Nations in New York.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (236) at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY, USA.
1993
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.
1997
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.
2000
Palau, Haiti and Vanuatu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2001
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.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the ASV Mehrzweckhalle in Munich, Germany.
2003
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.
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1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 85 pounds overhead from the ground using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
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.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (521) at Hala Sportowa Mera in Warsaw, Poland.
1999
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.
2000
Mexico is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
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.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 88 people at Madal Bal Sewa in Munich, Germany.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, preceded by lifting 12 people, at Stadthalle in Gersthofen, Germany.
2003
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.
2005
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...
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 33,000 Jharna-Kala paintings (2,000 paintings in 2 days) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1976
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’.
1978
Sri Chinmoy performs on 31 musical instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
A reception for Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala exhibition is sponsored by Senator Richard Kraus at Doric Hall, State House, in Boston, MA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (238) at the Opera House in Boston, MA, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (278) at the Manhattan Center Studios in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kongresszentrum Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.
2005
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...
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1970
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.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (239) at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT, USA.
1993
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.
1994
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.
1999
Ukraine’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Alexander Volkov declares Ukraine a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
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.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 people at Hotel Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.
2003
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.
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1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (6) at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
1995
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.
2000
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.
2004
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.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts two lion statues at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 10TH | | |||||
1966
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.
1977
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at ABC Haus Am Bahnhof in Cologne, Germany.
1977
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.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (7) at the Holy Family Church in New York, NY, USA.
1990
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.
1997
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.
2000
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.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at Schützenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.
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1978
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.
1979
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.
1984
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Recreation Trail in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, with an 800-metre running race along the trail for his students.
1986
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 takenof the original dumbbell, the calf and Sri Chinmoy holding a 70-lb. weight above his head.
1986
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.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (241) at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD, USA.
1991
A gala evening to celebrate Sri Chinmoy’s 60th birthday is held in the ballroom of the Manhattan Center in New York, NY, USA.
1993
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.
1999
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Washington State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia, WA, USA.
1999
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Theatergalerie in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
2002
On a visit to Europe, Sri Chinmoy is given a tour of the international headquarters of Madal Bal, near Zurich in Switzerland.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 170 instruments for 7 hours, 40 minutes at the Kursaal Convention Centre in Interlaken, Switzerland.
2010
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.
| SEPTEMBER 12TH | | |||||
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ’Can Meditation Enhance Leadership?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1975
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.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 44,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1977
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.”
1984
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.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (38) at Palais des Congrès de Montréal to an audience of 6,000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (242) at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sudhahota Carl Lewis, Olympic Sprinter and Long-jump Champion, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1993
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.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to C. Subramaniam, President of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
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.
1997
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Ms. Page Hopkins from ‘New Jersey Talking’ for Cablevision 12 in New Jersey, USA.
2000
Romania and St. Kitts & Nevis are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people at Schutzenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.
2003
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.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Museum of East And West in Odesa, Ukraine.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘How Secure are We?’, part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture Series, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 13 miles in 2:01:30 (9:20 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon (completing the first 13 miles) in Plainsboro, NJ, USA.
1982
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (279) at the University of Illinois to an audience of almost 7,000 people in Chicago, IL, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for Mother Teresa, who passed away on 5 September 1997 aged 87 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, at his meditation garden, Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also composes the song, ‘Mother Teresa, Calcutta’s Soaring Bird’. Read Sri Chinmoy’s tribute from 5 September 1997.
1998
Finland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the Opening of the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts the American philanthropist Ray Chambers, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 14TH | | |||||
1974
Some of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms and meditations (nos. 75-168) are placed inside fortune cookies, which he hands out to his disciples in the Manhattan Centre. He then asks them to read out the meditation in their cookie and proceeds to elaborate on each one. A similar meeting was held for the New York Centre disciples on 1 September 1974 where he handed out aphorisms (nos. 1-74). All 168 aphorisms are later published in his book, Fortune-Philosophy.
1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, attended by Ambassador Davidson Hepburn of the Bahamas in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations, New York.
1984
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Robert Swan for Simply Living magazine, in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
1984
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pat Clohessy, head long-distance running coach at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
1999
Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. — a total of 600 lbs. — with both arms simultaneously five times, at 8:05 a.m., in his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy embarks on a whirlwind Peace Concert tour through Germany, which will include performing in a different city every day for eight straight days. The tour begin s with a Peace Concert at Stadthalle, Colombi Park, in Freiburg, then moves to Mannheim, Nurnberg Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Dortmund and Hamburg.
| SEPTEMBER 15TH | | |||||
1980
Sri Chinmoy begins delivering a short inspiring talk each morning after sports practice at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, USA. The talks are later published in his book Aurora-Flora.
1984
Sri Chinmoy meets with world marathon champion Robert de Castella at ‘Deeks Drive’, the famous Stromlo Forest running trail in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves, for the first time, a 360¼-lb. dumbbell lift using only his right arm at his home gym in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. He also lifts 1,600 lbs. using a standing calf raise.
1986
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by The New Yorker magazine and Classical Keyboard Instruments, opens at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifs C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, at the George and Annette Murphy Recreation Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 members of the Humboldt University Chamber Choir, East Berlin, Germany, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Ganesh Puja held at Public School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jonathan Moore, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations in New York.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayerful message of support in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, on September 11, 2001.
2003
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Pujaloy — a special temple of pilgrimage built and maintained by the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Germany — in Heidelberg, Germany.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Maimarkthalle in Mannheim, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s second of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
2005
Sri Chinmoy receives the Great Victory Medal from Dr. Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of Russia’s Academy for Military Intelligence and Civil Protection.
2006
Sri Chinmoy begins a 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration (15-17 September) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. For invited special guests, Five-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl and 2002 World’s Strongest Man Hugo Gerard, plus hundreds of onlookers, one of the highlights on day one is Sri Chinmoy lifting a suspended car plus 2 people for a total weight of 2,558 lbs.
| SEPTEMBER 16TH | | |||||
1972
Scenes of Sri Chinmoy meditating in the picturesque countryside near North Salem in Westchester County, NY, USA, appear in the feature-length film, ‘A Day in the Life of Sri Chinmoy’.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 48,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy attends a dedication ceremony and naming of U Thant Island, on the East River adjacent to the UN New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference at his Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York City’s Grand Central Station, New York, NT, USA. He explains to a reporter from WPIX-TV Channel 11 News the purpose behind his paintings.
1978
Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the UN Prayer Breakfast at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts a car for the first time, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (8) at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ilie Năstase, world champion tennis player, and plays tennis with him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (376) – the 38th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at a ceremony held for the closing of the United Nations General Assembly, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, in New York, NY, USA.
2000
The Dominican Republic and Yemen are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 1650 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s third of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
2006
“Sri Chinmoy impresses me every time he lifts. He goes beyond what is humanly possible, especially at his age! Being here this weekend has replenished all my energy and given me more strength to keep pushing harder.” — Hugo Girard, IFSA Strongman Super Series World Champion (2002), four-time World Muscle Power Classic (WMPC) Champion (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004), and six-time Canada’s Strongest Man (1999-2004)
On day two of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chinmoy lifts: • Bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl; and Canadian strongman Hugo Girard. • Two stone lion statues and Hugo Girard, a total of 2,828 lbs., using a seated calf raise. • 1,550 of his published works, a total of 1,179 lbs., using a seated calf raise. • A giant pumpkin, a total of 1,123 lbs., using a standing calf raise.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy performs at the ‘Night of Champions’ and receives an award from Wayne Demilia, President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Professional Division Inc. at the Town Hall in New York, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 17TH | | |||||
1968
Sri Chinmoy a talk, entitled ‘Life’, at the home of Mrs. Consuelo Pineiro (Shanti) in Miami, Florida, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and delivers a talk about the UN’s second Secretary-General, in the Meditation Room of the United Nations in New York.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ken Anderson, no. 1 high school basketball player in the US; Mark Jackson, 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year, former all-American basketball player; Shelton Jones, 1987 all-American basketball player; and Ken Smith, no. 1 basketball point guard in the US – in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy honours the finishers of the 12th Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY, USA. The race also doubled as the TAC USA National 24-Hour Championship and culminated in a women’s world record for Ann Trason.
1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Peace Osaka Hall in Osaka, Japan.
1999
Sri Chinmoy meets Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award Winner, stage and television actress in the long-running television series ‘Who’s the Boss’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany. These concerts are Sri Chinmoy’s 4th and 5th of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
2006
On the final day of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA,Sri Chiinmoy lifts three planes at Princeton Airport, NJ, USA, and lifts a large stone at a Stone Museum, also in New Jersey.
| SEPTEMBER 18TH | | |||||
1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Devotion’, at the Aum Centre, 3817 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn New York, NY, USA.
1986
Using a standing calf raise, one leg at a time, Sri Chinmoy lifts 400 lbs. with each leg, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Ted Corbitt, Olympic Marathoner, father of ultra-distance running in the US, and the first President of the New York Road Runners Club; Shankar Shetty, President of the Indian National Congress of America; and José Torres, Olympic Boxing silver medallist, former Light Heavyweight Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at City Hall in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (377) – the final in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, IL, USA.
2000
Saint Lucia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ustad Kadar Khan, renowned tabla player, and Pandit Jasraj, Indian classical vocalist in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy composes ‘Give Me No Freedom’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kongresscenter in Dresden, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s sixth of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
| SEPTEMBER 19TH | | |||||
1970
Sri Chinmoy meditates with his students at Guru Stationery on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (15) at Suganami Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 380½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Later in the day, Sri Chinmoy lifts his car that was driven onto a platform attached to a modified calf-raise apparatus — twice without passengers (car plus apparatus: 3,042 lb.); then, on the third lift, he raises the car and three passengers (3,521 lb.); on the fourth lift, he raises the car and five passengers (3,811 lb.); on the fifth lift, he raises the car and seven passengers (4,107 lb.); and on the sixth lift, he twice raises the car with four persons in the front seat, four in the back seat and three on top of the car — eleven people altogether — holding the lifts for around seven seconds (4,515 lb.).
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (243) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Dominica and Ethiopia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Internationales Congress Centrum in Berlin to an audience of almost 5,000 people. It is Sri Chinmoy’s seventh of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers his final Peace Concert, dedicated to the late Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, in Lensovet House of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the concert, Sri Chinmoy invites the legendary Russian singer-songwriter Purushottama Boris Grebenshikov on stage to perform.
| SEPTEMBER 20TH | | |||||
1966
Sri Chinmoy sends a taped-recorded message from his home in New York to Sudha (Miss Carmen M. Suro), the President of the Aum Centre Inc., who plays it that evening at the inauguration of their new Centre premises in Calle Mayo, numero 264, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1973
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ravi Shankar, world-famous sitar player, at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ‘Mahanir’ in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. The two discuss music and spirituality in their native Bengali
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled, ‘The Past, the Present and the Future’, in Room 550 at the United Nations in New York.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director and Lester B. Korn, Ambassador of the United States to the UN, at the UNICEF Plaza in New York, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy presents James P. Grant, Executive Director of UNICEF, with the U Thant Peace Award at an interfaith prayer breakfast at UNICEF House in New York, USA.
1998
“That is so important. We are with you in upholding peace, which brings solace to many people throughout the world. It doesn’t matter what language they speak. I think peace is one of the things that is going to save the world.” — Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa
Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, and his wife, Graça Machel, Mozambique Minister of Education and Global Advocate for Women and Children, at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Luxembourg is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2002
“Ravi Shankar the musician and God the Supreme Musician sleeplessly communicate with each other through the language of love.” — Sri Chinmoy
“Sri Chinmoy, my brother, I am so overwhelmed and emotionally I feel choked with the love that you have shown towards me.” — Ravi Shankar
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar and offers him the U Thant Peace Award. Sri Chinmoy also lifted Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA. Read more...
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts the ‘Magpie Twins’ Casey Burns (2003 North American Heavyweight Sumo Champion) and Kelly Gneiting (Three-time U.S. Heavyweight Champion) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. It is Sri Chinmoy’s eighth of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
2007
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mikhail Gorbachev before the inauguration of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Institute of Paediatric Haematology in St. Petersburg in Russia. The former Soviet President had personally invited Sri Chinmoy to the event, calling him both a personal friend and a long-time friend of the Gorbachev Foundation.
| SEPTEMBER 21ST | | |||||
1974
Sri Chinmoy completes 10 stories during a 6-hour period in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy receives the annual award from the World Gratitude Day Foundation at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA. Read more...
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400½-lb. lift for the first time, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy meets with Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and presents him with the U Thant Peace Award at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) headquarters in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Dr. Penny Lee Dean, women’s world-record holder for the English Channel swim, set in 1978 to present; John Howard, 1981 Hawaii Ironman champion, world-champion cyclist, member of 3 US Olympic teams; Stu Mittleman, ultra-distance runner, held 6-day and 1,000-mile world record; Scott Tinley, 1982 and 1985 Hawaii Ironman Champion; Frank Zane, legendary bodybuilder, 3-time Mr. Olympia, at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA.
2002
Ravi Shankar invites Sri Chinmoy and Sudhahota Carl Lewis to visit the hermitage and retreat of Paramahamsa Yogananda in Encinitas, CA, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy concludes his German concert tour (September 14th-21st) with a Peace Concert at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany. The nine concerts attracted a total audience of over 9000.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts W.J.M. Lokubandara, Speaker of Sri Lankan House of Parliament, Minister of Education, at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 22ND | | |||||
1974
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica Hills in Queens, New York, NY, USA, where a concert of Indian music is performed by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and others.
1983
Sri Chinmoy meets with Milkha Singh at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ‘The Flying Sikh’, as he was known, won the gold medal in the 440 yards at the 1958 Commonwealth Games and won 77 of the 80 track races he ran during his career.
1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to H.E. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of Indian Ministry for External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to USSR, USA, Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka, former Consul General of India to New York, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist, NY Metropolitan Opera; Yue Sai Kan, journalist, TV series creator and Emmy Award winner; Dorothy Franco-Reed, 1984 US Olympic Handball Team player, ESPN commentator; and Vinoy Verma, former Indian Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Charles Osgood, CBS Radio and TV newscaster, winner of 3 Emmy Awards, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also performs a short concert on the esraj.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts and presents the U Thant Peace Award to Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania; and lifts Alexandr Vondra, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 23RD | | |||||
1977
“Your intentions and your work in this beautiful meditation group under the leadership of this highly respected master of spirituality, Sri Chinmoy, are in harmony with those of the Pope.” — Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N.
Sri Chinmoy hosts a programme honouring Pope Paul VI’s 80th birthday at the United Nations in New York, which is attended by Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N.
1978
Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions in New York, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 10 miles in 1:23:47 (8:23 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the V World Masters Games and runs the 100-metre event in 14.48 seconds at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the Games, he chooses to participate for Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts an elephant for the first time, using a modified calf-raise machine at Chinmoy Avenue in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert (123) and an evening Peace Concert (124) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial Peace Concert (522) for Mother Teresa (26 August 1910-5 September 1997) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. Read Sri Chinmoy’s tribute from 5 September 1997.
1998
New Zealand is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (595), which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Canada. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 34 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name. The audience of 19,000 is Sri Chinmoy’s largest-ever concert.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ricky Martin, Latin pop singer (afternoon); lifts Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia (early evening), at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy teaches his new song ‘My Birthday’ to the ‘Enthusiasm-Awakeners’ singing group, at the Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race course in front of Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 24TH | | |||||
1967
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: What Does it Really Mean?’, at 9:00 a.m. at William Sloane House, YMCA in New York City, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers two talks, entitled ‘The Face of Truth’ and ‘They Say and We Say’, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington, VT, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy runs in his first 10-mile race, one sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in Greenwich, CT, USA. He completes the course in 1:45:22.
1980
Sri Chinmoy writes thirteen poems (588-600) that are later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 6.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (125) at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan. At the end of the concert, Sri Chinmoy meditates with Head Priest Mitsuo Sato, presenting him with a plaque and a garland..
1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev’s chief interpreter Pavel Palazchenko from the Gorbachev Foundation at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed separately by several radio stations about his connection with Mother Teresa: ABC News, New York; Radio WIBC, Indianapolis (live); Radio WJR, Detroit (live); Radio WLW, Cincinnati (live); Radio WGY, Albany (aired September 25th); and Radio MT 90e1 (in the studio of Satellite Channel, SEDAT 00 New York).
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts William Graham, Foreign Minister of Canada, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mokshagun Clarence Clemons, saxophonist with Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy walks the 2-mile course around the perimeter of Jamaica High School in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. At the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, later pub;shed in My Race-Prayers, part 2.
| SEPTEMBER 25TH | | |||||
1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 31.40 seconds for 200 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (126) at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall in Nagasaki, Japan.
1988
Sri Chinmoy travels from New York to watch Sudhahota Carl Lewis compete during the 1988 Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea. He has a long conversation with the Olympic champion.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea, including Andre Phillips, 1988 Olympic gold medallist for the 400 metres hurdles; and Calvin Smith, 1984 Olympic gold medallist for the 4 x 100 metres relay and 1988 Olympic bronze medallist for 100 metres.
1996
Sri Chinmoy sinks 78 baskets out of 100 basketball throws from penalty line in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert in the 65th year of his birth, playing and singing 65 songs, to celebrate his cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The 2½-hour concert was his longest cello performance.
1999
Sri Chinmoy completes his ten-millionth Soul-Bird drawing, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Yugoslavia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
| SEPTEMBER 26TH | | |||||
1976
Sri Chinmoy performs his esraj music in concert at Public School 86, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Ambition, My Friend Unparalleled’, after a morning meditation, at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy starts the runners off at 8 a.m. in the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for athletes of the World Masters Games at the Tapia Theater in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Hiroshima Chūgoku Shimbun, ‘Midland News’, a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (127) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.
1988
Sri Chinmoy receives Sudhahota Carl Lewis’ winning shoes from the Olympian’s gold medal long-jump performance at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (244) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, commemorating his completion of 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
After a sudden trip to India to visit his sister Lily, who was seriously ill, Sri Chinmoy returns to New York, NY, USA. Upon his return, he narrates stories of his trip, which are later published in his book, My Express Visit to India.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mani Sankar Mukherji, renowned Bengali novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 2,400 pounds using a standing calf-raise machine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Nehru Centre in London, UK.
| SEPTEMBER 27TH | | |||||
1974
Sri Chinmoy writes ten stories between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., while he was visiting his meditation centre in Puerto Rico. They were later published in his book, A Yogi's Justice, an Avatar's Justice and God's Justice.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity And Security’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Are One’, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with Lakhan L. Mehrotra, Consul-General of India in California, gives a concert and composes a song in his honour at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA. After the song, Mr. Mehrotra spontaneously offers a most special tribute to Sri Chinmoy.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a short inspiring talk, entitled ‘What is a Miracle?’ after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA. In the evening, at his home in New York, Sri Chinmoy offers a message, entitled ‘I Shall No Longer Allow’.
1981
Sri Chinmoy with ‘the father of long-distance running’ Ted Corbitt at the awards ceremony of the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with marathon champion Robert de Castella after he won the BMW 15 Kilometre Footrace in Harrison, New York. Sri Chinmoy invites ‘Deek’ to visit him in two days time in Jamaica Queens to speak at Annam Brahma restaurant.
1982
Sri Chinmoy offers his Gratitude Day message to his spiritual students, which he also sets to music.
1983
Sri Chinmoy first plays the cello in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 72.66 seconds for 400 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy receives the Simon Bolivar Medal from the Central American and Caribbean Masters Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy first lifts a sailboat in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy conducts an interview about his weightlifting achievements with the cable television programme Vision of Asia.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (80) in the UN General Assembly Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers his ‘Salutation to Japan’ in Kyoto, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (128) at Avanti Hall in Kyoto, Japan.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (200) at the Golden Hall, San Diego Civic Center, in San Diego, CA, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Jaya Raj Acharya, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert, playing and singing 13 songs, to celebrate his 13th cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (596) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN, NY.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree — Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa — from the President and Vice-Chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy gives a short performance of his esraj music.
| SEPTEMBER 28TH | | |||||
1977
Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA. A song, entitled ‘O Great Pilot Mayor Beame’, composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of the mayor, is also performed.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Past Has Fast Faded Behind Us’, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Superiority’, after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy presents Yiannis Kouros, with the winner’s trophy for his victory in the Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour Road Race held on a one-mile loop course in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA. Yiannis had run through the battering storms of Hurricane Gloria to record a new world record of 178 miles.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (10) at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osaka, Japan. Listen on Radio Sri Chinmoy...
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians, including Roger Kingdom, 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medallist in 110 metres hurdles, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (201) at the University of California in Irvine CA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Kissinger, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mary Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, at the Bosendorfer Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta, at Annam-Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy lifts and plays tennis with Jason McManus, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. — the publishers of over 100 magazine brands, including Time magazine and Sports Illustrated — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mircea Snegur, President of Moldova, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy performs 22 songs on the cello for his 22nd cello anniversary, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Pir Zia Inayat Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY, USA.
| SEPTEMBER 29TH | | |||||
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prayer and Meditation’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA. After the talk, Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions.
1977
Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on the morning of his championship fight with Earnie Shavers, for an hour of prayer and spiritual discussion, at the apartment of his manager Herbert Muhammad, in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Read more...
1978
After attending one of Sri Chinmoy’s meditation-concerts: “I felt you bringing down Peace and Grace from above.” — Surjit Singh Bamala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation-concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Departing Friends, Our Lasting Friends and Our Everlasting Friends’, at the University of California in Davis, CA, USA, where he meets with Surjit Singh Barnala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Have Only One Need’, at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with champion marathon runner Robert De Castella and his wife Gaylene Clewsat Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy had personally invited Rob De Castella to be the guest speaker as part of a regular series of talks given by elite athletes.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (39) at Davies Hall in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 503-lb. for the first time, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, at the Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Moussa Traore of the Republic of Mali at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy resumes serious weightlifting in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers his spiritual comments about the significance of the Olympic Games in a short talk, entitled ‘On the Olympics’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy meets with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter Irina Virganskaya-Gorbacheva is also present at the meeting.
| SEPTEMBER 30TH | | |||||
1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy writes to US President Gerald R. Ford offering his prayers for the quick recovery of the President’s wife Betty Ford. In his reply, the President remarks that his family deeply appreciated Sri Chinmoy’s message of prayerful concern and friendship during the time of his wife’s illness.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, USA.
1977
A photograph of Sri Chinmoy meditating with Muhammad Ali, taken the previous day, appears in the New York Times. Sri Chinmoy speaks about the photograph of Muhammad Ali, at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at Bakersfield State University in Bakersfield, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled ‘Indifference’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with Aristides Royo Sánchez, President of Panama, and Panama’s Foreign Minister Dr. Jorge Illueca at the Panama State Reception at the United Nations in New York. There, he also meets with Dr. Carlos Ozores Typaldos, Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers an early evening Peace Concert (40) and an evening Peace Concert (41) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Harri Holkeri, Prime Minister of Finland, at the United Nations in New York.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (569) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in Vienna, Austria.
