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.
Sri Chinmoy meets with world marathon champion Robert de Castella at ‘Deeks Drive’, the famous Stromlo Forest running trail in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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.
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.
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.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 members of the Humboldt University Chamber Choir, East Berlin, Germany, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Ganesh Puja held at Public School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jonathan Moore, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations in New York.
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.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Pujaloy — a special temple of pilgrimage built and maintained by the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Germany — in Heidelberg, Germany.
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.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Great Victory Medal from Dr. Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of Russia’s Academy for Military Intelligence and Civil Protection.
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.