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Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Victory’, at his apartment in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Christa Vahlensieck, Marathon World Record Holder (1975, 1977), in Bonn, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (7) at the First Unitarian Church in Providence, RI, USA.

Sri Chinmoy succeeds, for the first time, in raising 1300 pounds with a standing calf raise, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He repeats the lift two more times.

During his European concert and lecture tour, Sri Chinmoy visits UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. He also composes the song ‘Since Wars Begin in the Minds of Men’, with words from the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (190) and delivers a lecture at UNESCO in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ananda Guruge, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to France and UNESCO, at UNESCO in Paris, France. 

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and receives the Congressional Special Recognition Certificate for his service to world harmony from Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman (Rep. NY) at Rayburn House Office Building, House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (407) — the 7th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy has his tenth meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s two-arm dumbbell lift of 400 lbs. (achieved in May 2000) is reported on News Channel 8 Sports in New Haven, CT, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (590) at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy is interviewed before the concert.

Togo and Trinidad & Tobago are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including professors from Charles University in Novometska Radnice, Prague, Czech Republic.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Jeff Goldblum, actor, musician and Academy Award nominee, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Also lifted, is actress, director and screenwriter Illeana Douglas. At the event, Sri Chinmoy performs on the esraj.

Sri Chinmoy narrates an ancient Indian story, entitled ‘The Statue of Termites’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, at University College, in London, England, UK.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers three prayerful messages at Salle de Concert in St. Denis, Greater Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela for the first time at the United Nations in New York. The two are introduced by New York City Mayor David Dinkins.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal to an audience of 9,000 in Montreal, QC, Canada.

An article about Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Ottawa, Canada is published in The Weekly Deshe Bideshe (Voice of the Bengali Community in North America).

Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Michal Kováč, first President of the Slovak Republic and his wife Emília Kováčová, and professors from Comenius University as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at the Istropolis Theatre (Performance Art Theatre), in Bratislava, Slovakia. There, Sri Chinmoy also offers a short flute performance.

Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (afternoon: audience of 2,500; evening: audience of 3,500) at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA, USA. An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is concurrently open for public viewing.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Spiritual Master’, at Oakland High School, in Mansfield, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy departs John F. Kennedy Airport, in New York, USA, on Pan Am Flight 100 to London, UK, to commence his fourth European lecture tour. On the flight, he begins writing a 1,000-poem series entitled Europe-Blossoms. Poems 1-100 are written during the flight, and in London and Cambridge, England.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Confidence’, at Cambridge University, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Radio Orwell in Ipswich, England, UK. Listen to the recording...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Teachers and Divine Teachers’, at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall, Ipswich, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy gives a television interview on ITV, in Ipswich, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘A Seeker is a Singer’, at Trinity Church in Boston, MA, USA.

Sri Chinmoy starts off the Empire State Bicycle Relay, a cycling relay traversing the 13 original states of the Union, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy first lifts 240½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. His body weight of 159 ¾ pounds.

Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100 metres at 9:00 p.m. at the Shore Athletic Club Meet in New Jersey, USA. He finishes in a time of 15.7 seconds.

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

Sri Chinmoy lifts Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter and her two daughters at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also offers a short esraj performance.

From June 21st 2006 until the last runner finishes the 3100-Mile Self-Transcendence Race on August 10th 2006, Sri Chinmoy offers them a daily prayer, which is distributed to each runner and also posted on the bulletin board at the counting station.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Love’, at the University of Leeds in Yorkshire, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy completes a series of 1,000 poems, later published in The Dance of Life parts 1-20.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Outer Power, the Inner Power’, at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations, New York.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Medway Radio in Chatham, Kent, England, UK. Listen to the interview...

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, a meditation, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Peace and World Peace’, at Stuttgart University in Stuttgart, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 160 lbs. with each arm — a total of 320 lbs. — from a standing position, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Reverend Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition President; Democratic Presidential Candidate in 1984, 1988; and civil rights leader, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at The Empire Center at The Egg, in Albany, NY, USA. Listen to the CD...

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 43rd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy holds 13-hour meditation and offers a Peace Concert the day before Father’s Day (June 21st) and delivers a talk that evening, entitled ‘To Have a Sweet Family’, at Public School 117 in Jamaica, New York, USA.

An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements is published in Slovenske Novice (Slovenian News).

The Three-Country-Point of Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany near Passau is dedicated to peace as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom by Mayor Alfons Hellauer (Germany), Mayor Jan Jelen (Czech Republic) and Municipal Councillor Wolfgang Loetsch (Austria).

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including numerous professors, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts a Russian documentary filmmaker as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also offers a short esraj concert.

The first exhibition at a museum of Sri Chinmoy Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Museo Del Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Greatness and Goodness’, at Oxford University in Oxford, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy attends a soccer game in the New York Cosmos stadium where the great Brazilian soccer star Pelé is playing. During the match, a squadron of planes flies overhead writing in white smoke: ‘Happy Father’s Day Sri Chinmoy’.

Two exhibitions of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks open at the Town Hall in Ipswich and at the Town Hall in Newmarket, Suffolk, UK.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at Mozartsaal in Cologne, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy performs on the esraj during the exhibition opening of his Jharna-Kala artworks, at the prestigious Museum Alexander König in Bonn, Germany. The reception is sponsored by the director of the museum Dr. Günter Nobis, and the cultural attache from the Indian Embassy in Bonn serves as master of ceremonies for the programme, which is recorded for future broadcast in India.

Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,200-lb. standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

A Father’s Day Marathon held in Sri Chinmoy’s honour takes place at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA, beginning shortly after 6:30 a.m.

Sri Chinmoy composes a song about Nelson Mandela, ‘A Perfect Justice-Voice’, which is subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio and commercial stations across the USA, including New York’s WQXR, and sung on television by a church choir in Seattle.

 Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 13th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at James J. Reynolds Jr. High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert Zmelick, Czech Olympic gold medallist in the decathlon (1992), at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An article featuring Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements appears in the German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (New Osnabrück Newspaper).

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Borough Hall in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Helen Hunt, Academy Award-winning actress, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. On February 15, 2013, Helen Hunt is interviewed on the Late Show with David Letterman and speaks about her meeting with Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and Force Commander of UN peacekeeping in Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Role of Purity in the Spiritual Life’, at the home of Mrs. Mary Williams, in Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire and Aspiration’, at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy’s achievement of writing 360 poems in one day – The Goal Is Won – is published in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at Friends Meeting House in London, England, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘No More the Desire-Life’, at Cape Cod Community College in Hyannis, MA, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Maritime Hall in Halifax, NA, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, Vatican City. Read more...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a noon lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Hunger’, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome, Italy.

The first ‘Runners Are Smilers’ 2-mile race sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team is held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer session for American hostages held in Beirut at Rayburn House Office Building, House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 12th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 42nd in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Parliament Building in Kiev, Ukraine.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL, USA.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates Father’s Day with his spiritual children and composes a song, entitled ‘The Human Father ... The Divine Father’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the 11th annual Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race and recites his first daily prayer, which he continues to do during his visits to the event between June 18th and August 14th 2007, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy’s month-long (22 May – 17 June) Jharna-Kala exhibition at the Bankers Trust Company on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, comes to a close.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ingratitude and Gratitude’, at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

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

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at the Kongress Hall in Augsburg, Germany.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘O My Seeker-Friends’, in Tawes Theatre at the University of Maryland, College, MD, USA.

Sri Chinmoy invites ‘the father of long-distance running’ Ted Corbitt to officiate at the Father’s Day Marathon, beginning at 3 a.m., at Flushing Meadows Park in New York, NY, USA. Later in the day, Sri Chinmoy composes a song, ‘Father’s Day No, Children’s Day Yes’.

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

Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre event at the USATF Masters Meet at Matawan High School, in New Jersey, USA. His time is 16.20 seconds.

An article about Sri Chinmoy’s third meeting with Mother Teresa is published in Asia Online, No. 127 Vol. II.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Mother Teresa for the fifth and final time at Missionaries of Charity House in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy gives a Father’s Day talk to his spiritual children at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including numerous professors, at St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also offers a short esraj performance.

Sri Chinmoy honours legendary Indian singer Lakshmi Shankar at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also offers a short esraj performance.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s School’, at the Catholic Chaplaincy, University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Third Eye’, at The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Watch video...

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance and Knowledge’, at the University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Sri Chinmoy meets three ultra-marathon runners who had earlier participated in a 100-mile race in Flushing Meadows Park. The runners — Don Ritchie, world-record holder for 50-mile and 100-mile track races; Frank Bozanich, US record holder for 100 kilometres; and then later in the evening, Cahit Yeter, world masters record holder for the 100-mile road race — visits Sri Chinmoy at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

To celebrate his tennis anniversary Sri Chinmoy plays and wins 100 games in 3 days in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets privately with several dignitaries — Mr. Luigi Cottafavi, Director-General of the United Nations (Geneva); Mr. Richard Pestalozzi, Vice-President of the International Red Cross Committee; and His Excellency Mr. Gurbachan Singh, Ambassador of India to Switzerland, in Geneva, Switzerland — in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Role of the United Nations’, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Felician College in Lodi, NJ, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 11th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Lindsay Clennell, a film writer and producer, at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Queens, New York, NY, USA. There, Mr. Clennell asks Sri Chinmoy about his recent three-million ‘soul-bird’ drawings.

Sri Chinmoy performs a series of Rainbow-Dreamers challenges, which he had set himself: 7,000 crunch sit-ups in 1 hr. 19 min. 42 sec.; 130 crunch abdomen-ups with 302 lbs. in 4 min. 22.83 sec. (in 5 sets with brief intervals); a 1,500-lb. standing calf raise; a 250m walk wearing a 100-lb. vest; a 33” vertical jump onto a platform; a 34” standing jump onto a tape; a 120-lb. single leg-extension; a 200-lb. double leg-extension; a 110-lb. single leg-curl; reciting from memory the names of 25 exotic vegetables and the names and origin of 20 sari fabrics, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read the article in Hinduism Today...

Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including professors at New York State University in New Paltz, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Sam Spanier, one of his original sponsors who assisted him in coming to America in 1964; and Sam’s friend Eric Hughes, who also assisted Sri Chinmoy in his early days in America, at Matagiri Ashram in Woodstock, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts János Starker, Grammy Award-winning cellist, and one of the world’s greatest cello prodigies, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland  (1960-74), in Dublin, Ireland.

Sri Chinmoy offers his first 14-hour meditation for Father’s Day, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Cry and the Smile’ and answered spiritual questions, at the American Church in Paris, France.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by United Press International at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy composes a ‘Father’s Day’ song while in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Emil Zatopek at the 10 km Sri Chinmoy Race at Belvoir Park in Zurich, Switzerland, after which the Olympic running legend officiated at the prize-giving ceremony.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at Kaufleute Saal (Merchants Hall) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy performs a standing calf raise with a weight of 1,100 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy wins 137 of 154 tennis games in two days in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the United Nations in New York.

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

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to US Congressman for New York Gary Ackerman followed by a Peace Concert at O’Neill House Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 15 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.

Sri Chinmoy lifts weights using a seated calf raise at San Francisco’s KRON-TV studio, where he also lifts Sportscaster Gary Radnich.