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.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at ABC Haus Am Bahnhof in Cologne, Germany.
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.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (7) at the Holy Family Church in New York, NY, USA.
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.
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.
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.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at Schützenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.