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.
Sri Chinmoy answers spiritual questions in New York, USA.
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.
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.
Sri Chinmoy lifts an elephant for the first time, using a modified calf-raise machine at Chinmoy Avenue in Greenwich, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert (123) and an evening Peace Concert (124) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy meets with David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing, NY, USA.
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.
New Zealand is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
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.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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.
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.