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1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture (10 a.m.) , entitled ‘The Inner Voice’, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Not Power, But Oneness’, at State University of New York (SUNY) in Oswego, NY, USA.
1976
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the One Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘Desire-Life and Aspiration-Life’, at San Bernardino State University, in San Bernardino, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘The Heart, the Mind, the Vital and the Body’, at San Diego State University, in San Diego, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (42) at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (81) at San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, CA, USA. After the concert, bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl introduced a video of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (11) in the Cadet Chapel, US Military Academy, at West Point, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (129) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Mother Teresa at her Missionaries of Charity House adjoining San Gregorio Church, in Rome, Italy. Mother Teresa also holds aloft the Peace Torch, the symbol of hope carried by runners around the world in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
2000
Sri Chinmoy’s interview with The Edge Magazine, entitled ’The Joy of Inner Peace ... with Sri Chinmoy’, is published in Minnesota, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Pir Zia Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (afternoon) to an audience of 4,200 at the Austria Center Vienna, in Vienna, Austria.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) to an audience of 4,700 at the Austria Center Vienna, in Vienna, Austria.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the M. Cotsubinsky Museum in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Does Belief come Spontaneously or by Effort?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Emotion: Is it our Enemy or our Friend?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with Admiral J.E. Lawgille, Commandant of the 13th Naval District at the US Naval Base in San Diego, CA, USA. After the meeting, Sri Chinmoy is taken for a tour of the base in the Admiral’s car.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘Where do I Live?’, at the University of California in Irvine, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with Deputy Mayor Ray Remy of Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘Dear Brother, Sweet Sister’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘Ambition’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. In the evening, Sri Chinmoy comments about his morning message.
1983
Sri Chinmoy meets with Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, at Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1987
The sixth Impossibility Challenger Games begins in Zurich, Switzerland. On 23 September 2021, Swiss TV broadcasts a retrospective of the 1987 Games. It is featured in a series called ‘Do You Remember?’
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (12) at St. Mary’s Basilica in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, at JFK International Airport in Queens, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,000 lbs. with a two-handed dumbbell press, lying down; and 800 lbs. with a two-handed dumbbell press, seated, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
After spending several days in New York in late September and early October meeting and talking with Sri Chinmoy, the renowned Bengali novelist and journalist Mani Sankar Mukherji makes a final visit to Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA, to pay his respects to Sri Chinmoy, whom he called “a spiritual treasure.”
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts — one in the afternoon, to an an audience of 2,600; and one in the evening, to an audience of 2,800, at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest, Hungary.
2005
Sri Chinmoy receives an award from the Federation of Bangladeshi Americans, presented by Congressman Gregory Meeks, at the Bengali Convention 2005 held at York College in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes his 100,000th Jharna-Kala painting in Jamaica, NY, USA. From November 19, 1974, when he first began painting, it took just 10½ months for him to reach his goal. During the final 10 days of his painting marathon, he barely slept, completing as many as 5,000 works per day.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with former American tennis champion Jack Kramer — ranked world no. 1 in 1946 and winner of three Grand Slam tournaments — in Southern California, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘Our Soulful Prayer and Our Fruitful Meditation’, at the University of Southern California in Pasadena, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘Music’, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘You have Peace’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York.
1980
Sri Chinmoy meets with Narasimha Rao, Minister of External Affairs of India, at a special programme hosted in his honour by Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. As part of the function Sri Chinmoy’s song ‘Brother Narasimha Rao!’ is performed by the meditation group choir.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (13) at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (130) at the St. Paul Civic Center to an audience of 7,000 in St. Paul, MN, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy had a reunion with Ida Patterson, whom he first met in 1962 at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. In 1965, after Sri Chinmoy had come to America, she arranged for him to give a series of talks in her home city of Minneapolis.
1988
Sri Chinmoy visits the ‘Impossibility-Challenger Games’ in Zurich, Switzerland, where he lifts 58 people, including Paul-Jean Guillaume, 1986 Mr. Universe, welterweight class; and Tony Pearson, 1980 Mr. Universe, 6-time World Champion in mixed pairs (1982-1988), 1979 Mr. World, 1978 Mr. America.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Luis Alberto Lacalle, President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also lifts the President as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (245) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy begins a series of miniature clay sculptures at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 15,010 at the T-Mobile Arena in Prague, Czech Republic.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Yoga & Du in Graz, Austria.
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1965
Sri Chinmoy delivers his maiden speech in the United States, a lecture entitled ‘Hinduism’, to the tenth-grade students of Hicksville High Schoo in Hicksville, NY, USA. Krishan Dhanda, a friend of Mr. Ramamoorthy who worked with Sri Chinmoy at the India Consulate in New York at the time, made the arrangements for the lecture.
1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Opportunity Divine and Necessity Supreme’, at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Ignorance’, at the University of California in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘I Shall Learn and Learn’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) in 2:30:35 (9:43 pace) at the New York City Marathon Tune-Up in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 3 motorcycles, 2 Mounties on horseback, and a helicopter using the standard calf raise in New York and New Jersey environs, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (42) at the Church of St. Boniface in Munich, West Germany, and appears on German National Television in Munich, Germany, lifting TV host Guenter Jauch.
1989
Sri Chinmoy honours Karan Singh, Ambassador of India to the United States, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy tests out an enormous set of 27 portable steps, at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy competes in the field events – 600gm javelin throw (24.2m), 4kg shot put (8.19m) and 1kg discus (21.56m) — at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at Victory Field, Forest Park, Woodhaven, New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of South Africa.
2003
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of Mongolia.
2004
Sri Chinmoy receives the Austria – Heart of Europe Award from six Members of Parliament, at a ceremony at the banquet hall of the Vienna Börse (Stock Exchange) in Vienna, Austria.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pablo Casals, world-renowned cellist, at the maestro’s residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Read more...
1976
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘O Pablo Casals’ in honour of Don Pablo’s birth centenary (29 December 1876). The song is later sung on 11 October 1976, during a programme at the United Nations which Sri Chinmoy holds in memory of the maestro.
1976
Sri Chinmoy is asked a question about solving the world’s problems by Mr Le Kim Dinh, United Nations Correspondent for The New York Times, at a meeting of the meditation group at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy is named ‘Honorary Visiting Scholar’ at the Pacific School of Religion, University of California, in Berkeley, CA, USA. Written acknowledgment also came from Andrew Neil Goldenkranz of the ASSU Council of Presidents and from Edward E. Golbry of the Department of Music Stanford University.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Run and Become’, at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers two inspirational messages entitled ‘What is Needed’ and ‘God the Creator’ after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy plays the harpsichord at Progress-Promise function hall in New York.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including Peter Hensel, 1985 Mr. Universe, 1985 World Amateur Mixed Pairs Champion, 1986 Mr. Olympia 6th place; and Christoph Herle, German national-record holder for the marathon and 10,000 metres, in Munich, Germany
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bayfront Center Arena in St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Stoyan Ganev, President of the UN General Assembly, in his private offices at the United Nations in New York. The President also holds the Peace Torch of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (427) at the Centre Sportif du Bout-du-Monde in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to the Peace Concert, Sri Chinmoy meets with Mr. Vladimir F. Petrovsky, Director General of the United Nations Office in Geneva, at his private residence. At the concert, Mr. Aleksandr Gavroushkin, Political Affairs Officer and Special Assistant to Mr. Vladimir Petrovsky offers an introductory welcome to Sri Chinmoy.
1999
The Indian State of Goa is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled, ‘Spirituality’, in Conference Room 14 at the United Nations, New York.
1975
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy runs the Pheidippides Marathon (5:39:41) in Athens, Greece. Read Sri Chinmoy’s account of the race and the next 15 anecdotes...
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘Hope’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 600 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (131) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (159) at the Alhambra Theatre in Athens, Greece.
1995
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo time trial for the 100 metres in a time of 17.40 seconds on a track in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (428) at Palais Ferstel in Vienna, Austria, attended by an audience of 15,000 people.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 lbs. with each arm separately after only 7 days of practice in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Ted Turner, founder of CNN and Vice Chairman of Time Warner, during a ceremony at the United Nations in New York attended by a gathering of UN Ambassadors and corporate leaders. (Ted Turner has donated US$1 billion to support UN causes.)
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts two wrestlers: Asashōryū Akinori (Dolgorsürengiin Dagvadorj), Champion of Sumo Wrestling; and his brother Dolgorsürengiin ‘Slippery’ Sumiyaabazar, five-time gold medallist in Mongolia Freestyle Wrestling, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Maestro Valery Gergiev, St. Petersburg’s legendary conductor, at the Ethical Cultural Society in New York, NY, USA.
2007
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Ovalhalle and Arena21 in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.
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1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Control: Self-Offering to God’, at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Attachment and Detachment’, at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God’s Power of Love in Today's World’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1973
Sri Chinmoy wrote 150 poems in 24 hours, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘The Role of Humility in the Spiritual Life’,in the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter, in Americus, GA, USA. Sri Chinmoy sings her the song ‘Compassion-Ocean, Mother Lillian’, which he had composed the day before. Later that evening Sri Chinmoy and his students give a public concert in her honour.
1980
Sri Chinmoy launches the Salutation to America 1,300-mile non-stop relay at midnight in Concord, NH, USA. The relay, comprised of 15 runners from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, goes on to carry a flaming torch through each of the 13 original states of the US and completes its journey seven days later in Atlanta, Georgia.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Independence’, after morning sports practice and a meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy dedicates a memorial arch to former UN Secretary-General U Thant, on U Thant Island – an island in the East River adjacent to the UN, inaugurated on September 16, 1977, by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’ – in New York NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy presents the first U Thant Peace Award to Zenon Rossides, Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.
1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 98½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy visits Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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9ri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (203) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (246) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
The City of Ottawa is dedicated as the first Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital at a ceremony attended by Canadian federal and city officials in the World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Canada.
1993
Sri Chinmoy begins drawing a series of human faces in Japan. He completed 3,433 drawings.
1995
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo time trial for the 100 metres in a time of 16.30 seconds on the Cricket Club Track in Vienna, Austria.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy writes his 1,300th weightlifting prayer, before doing an 800-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Kazakhstan and Namibia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (597) with an organ performance, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 10 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
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1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Perfection’, at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality and Art’, at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Psychic Power and Will-Power, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message, entitled, ‘Grievances’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy meets with Bernard Weatherall, Speaker of the British House of Commons, at Westminster Abbey in London, UK.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (132) at Glasgow City Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (14) at the University Chapel, Glasgow University, in Glasgow, Scotland.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (160) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy meets with Emil Zatopek — three-time gold medallist at the 1952 Olympics for 5 km, 10 km and marathon — at he Sri Chinmoy Cup, a masters competition for athletes aged 40 years and over, held in Prague, Czech Republic. The event, attracts 2,000 spectators and athletes, and is organised by the 1992 Olympic decathlon champion, Robert Zmelik, in honor of Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Prague.
1995
Sri Chinmoy competes in the Sri Chinmoy Cup — a special event organised by current Olympic decathlon champion, Robert Zmelik, in honor of Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Prague —held at Slavia Praha Sports Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic. His results in the field events are — 8.38 metres for the 4 kilogram shot put; 21.04 metres for the 1 kilogram discus; and 23.58 metres for the 600 gram javelin. He records a time of 16.60 seconds for the 100-metre race, which he runs with current Olympic decathlon champion Robert Zmelik. Emil Zatopek is the official starter for this special event.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (429), attended by a capacity audience of 15,000 people, at the Sportovní Hala Sparta, in Prague, Czech Republic.The concert is broadcast live on national radio.
2000
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Martha Sawyert Allen, who writes a column called ‘Faith and Body’ for the Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. The telephone conversation takes place at 9:30 a.m. on 8 October and the article is published on Saturday, 14 October 2000.
2000
Sri Chinmoy answers a question on ‘Politics and the Spiritual Life’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inspiration, Aspiration and Realisation’, at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message entitled, ‘Why am I so Unhappy?’ after morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs the 4-mile race, sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, in a time of 36 minutes and 16 seconds, at Breezy Point, Long Island, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (16) at Royal Albert Hall to an audience of 5,000 in London, UK.
1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 106¼ lbs. using only his right arm at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
Mokshagun Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, meditates with Sri Chinmoy at Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica Queens, NY, USA.
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1970
An article about Sri Chinmoy, by special correspondent Audrey Aslin, appears in The Ottawa Citizen, in Canada.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational message entitled, ‘Because You are a Born-Heart’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 20 km in 1:51:00 (8:55 pace) at the Long Island Road Runners Club Race, in Eisenhower Park, East Meadow, NY, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy visits Schilthorn Peak in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. It overlooks the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and is the highest mountain in the range lying north of the Sefinenfurgge Pass.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St. James Church in London, UK.
1986
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Mr. Zehn Eckhardt of the U.N. Bureau of the German Press Agency, at the United Nations in New York.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (133) at Palatrussardi in Milan, Italy.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (247) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (313) at Deutschlandhalle to an audience of 9,000 in Berlin, Germany.
2000
Algeria is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert for Ravi Shankar, world-renowned sitar player, and his wife, Sukanya, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. Earlier in the day, they both visited Sri Chinmoy’s ‘Pilgrim-Museum’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
2003
Sri Chinmoy comments about Thomas Jefferson during a conversation with Nripal Eric Petersen, author of the book, Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, about the 3rd President of the USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. It is their 22nd meeting.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Jesper Kenn Olsen, round-the-world runner, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy then offers a soulful message, ‘God the Farthest and God the Nearest’, to the Danish ultra-distance runner, who was soon to complete his run of 26,000 miles all around the world.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy is welcomed back to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Ferré where the first Sri Chinmoy spiritual Centre was established in San Juan in 1966.
1973
Sri Chinmoy offers a lecture, entitled ‘The Answer to World-Despair’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a programme in memory of Don Pablo Casals at the United Nations in New York. A song in honour the master cellist’s birth centenary, ‘O Pablo Casals’ — composed by Sri Chinmoy on 5 October — is sung by the United Nations Meditation Group singers.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human in Me, the Divine in Me and the Supreme in Me’, St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with ultra-marathon legend Ted Corbitt at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy meets with S.N. Mishra, Foreign Minister of India, at the United Nations in New York.
1985
Sri Chinmoy publicly lifts 106¼ lbs. using only his right arm at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. (Two days earlier, Sri Chinmoy lifted the same weight at his home gym.)
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (134) at Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, France.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (15) at the Basilica of St. Denis in Paris, France.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the World Citizens Assembly at the Penta Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 pounds, 30 times on his stomach — known as ‘stomach crunches’ — at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA. He describes it as “the most difficult lift”.
2002
Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka offer a private concert for Sri Chinmoy and special guests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read the report from Anahata Nada...
2006
Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden and Sri Chinmoy Street are inaugurated at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Flushing, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy is joined at the ceremony by Jim Gennaro, New York City Councilman; Commissioner Estelle Cooper, Administrator of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Dorothy Lewandowski, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for Queens.
2007
Sri Chinmoy enters Mahasamadhi at his home in Jamaica, Queens, New York. During the coming week, observances are held at Aspiration-Ground — the place where he spent so many hours meditating, performing concerts, teaching songs, painting and drawing, honouring dignitaries, giving talks, weightlifting and playing tennis.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy arrives San Francisco, CA, USA, to hold public meditations in various cities in California. His visit is honoured by the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco Joseph L. Alioto with an official proclamation, dated 6 October 1975.
1975
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy visits Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (16) at the Queen’s Free Chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, UK.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (17) at Westminster Abbey in London, UK.
1987
Sri Chinmoy meets with Bernard Weatherall, Speaker of the British House of Commons, at the British Parliament in London, UK.
1993
A four-day (Oct.12-15) exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Birds drawings opens at a gallery in Miyazaki, Japan. Sri Chinmoy declares his goal to be one million birds.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (378) at Miyazaki Prefecture Medical Association (MPMA) in Miyazaki, Japan.
1999
Sri Chinmoy begins by offering his first prayer before excersing on his stationary bicycle at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. The series of payers are later published in his book, My Aspiration-Heart Cycles, part 1 and part 2.
2000
San Marino is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy writes a letter of congratulations to Kofi Annan upon hearing the news that the Secretary-General has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2001. Sri Chinmoy also writes to Professor Lundestad, Director of the Nobel Peace Committee, to express his happiness on learning that both the United Nations and the UN Secretary-General are jointly receiving the world's most significant peace award.
2002
Sri Chinmoy completes his 5,000th lift in his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme when he raises Vladimir Petrovsky, former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. The lift takes place in the back garden tent of Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Songs by Sri Chinmoy, composed in honour of Vladimir Petrovsky, are performed by an acapella, all-male choir.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy completes The Golden Boat, a 20-volume series of 1,000 poems, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1975
‘Sri Chinmoy Day in San Francisco’ — 13 October 1975 — is proclaimed by Joseph L. Alioto, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, in a signed proclamation, dated 6 October 1975.
1975
Sri Chinmoy answers a series of questions at the opening of the ‘God-Ascending Beauty’s Feast Bakery’, San Francisco, CA, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (afternoon (17), an audience of 6,000; and evening (18), an audience of 7,000) at the Espace Balard in Paris, France. Listen to the recording...
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (18) at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernández Colón and his wife Lila. Sri Chinmoy also met with the President of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner, at the Governor’s Residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1993
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Japanese television reporters at his Jharna-Kala exhibition in Miyazaki, Japan.
1993
Sri Chinmoy runs 100 metres in 15:34 at the 10th World Masters Games in Miyazaki, Japan. He competes as a member of the US team.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (379), which he dedicates to Mother Teresa, at Miyazaki Prefecture Medical Association (MPMA) in Miyazaki, Japan.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pope John Paul II for the second time in St. Peter’s, at the Vatican in Rome, Italy. There, Sri Chinmoy presents him with a portfolio containing the song he had written for him and other songs he had set to music from the Pontiff’s on words.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an inspirational talk to the runners at the start of the first Sri Chinmoy 7-Day Race held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (248) at Koncerthuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (380) at the Medical Association Hall (MPMA) in Miyazaki, Japan. He dedicates the concert to Leonard Bernstein on the third anniversary of his passing.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (430) at the Palais des congrès de Montréal to an audience of 13,000 in Montreal, QC, Canada.
2000
An interview with Sri Chinmoy is published in Star Tribune, Metro/State, Minnesota, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy is chosen by Billie Jean King, legendary tennis player, to introduce her to President Mikhail Gorbachev when she receives the ‘Women’s World Award’ from the President at the Manhattan Center Studios in New York, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love and Serve’, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (19) at New College, Oxford University, in Oxford, UK.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (20) at the Upper Chapel, Eton College, in Windsor, UK.
1987
An article about Sri Chinmoy is published in the Canadian Times of India, News Magazine.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for the Indian Community at the Central Technical School in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (249) including an organ performance at Koncerthuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
1991
Sri Chinmoy attends the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital dedication at a ceremony with Mayor Thomas M. Whalen in Albany, NY, USA (capital of New York State).
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Trinh Xuan Lang, Ambassador of Viet Nam to the UN, at the Mission of Viet Nam to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (381) at the MPMA in Miyazaki, Japan.
2000
Djibouti is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2003
Sri Chinmoy receives the Presidential Medallion, Macedonia’s highest award, from President Boris Trajkovski in the Presidential Office, Skopje, Macedonia.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Univerzalna Sala in Skopje, Macedonia.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Cherkasy, Ukraine.
2006
Sri Chinmoy welcomes President Mikhail Gorbachev and daughter Irina Virganskaya to a gala programme in the President’s honour, including a memorial planting of a tree dedicated to the late Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva; numerous performances; and a visit to the ‘Pilgrim-Museum’ dedicated to the President, displaying the entire history of the extraordinary friendship between Sri Chinmoy and President Gorbachev, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks are exhibited at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Individuality and personality’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at All Angels' Church in New York City, NY, USA, for absolute beginners. At 1 p.m., Sri Chinmoy conducts another meditation, this one, for highly advanced seekers.
1976
Sri Chinmoy meets with Vasant Rai when the world-acclaimed virtuoso sarod player gives a special concert for the spiritual teacher and his students in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (43) at Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including Karen Kain, principal ballerina for the National Ballet of Canada; Roshi Phillip Kapleau, renowned North American Buddhist leader and author; Barbara McLeod, ultra-distance runner; Egerton Marcus, 1988 Olympic silver medallist in middleweight boxing; and Alan Redway, Federal Member of Parliament, at Vishnu Mandir in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pushkar Johari, Indian Ambassador to Sweden, at the Indian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a poetry reading and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Poetry and Prose’, at Musikaliska Akademien (Stockholm Academy of Music) in Stockholm, Sweden. A recording is released later in 1990 on CD as, ‘Dream-Plants and Reality-Trees: The Stockholm Poetry Reading’. Listen to the recording…
1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Mikhail Gorbachev for the sixth time and offers the President the U Thant Peace Award. The President and Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva together hold the Peace Torch, at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy has a book signing at Borders Books & Music in Westbury, Long Island, New York, NY, USA. While there, he also gives a short reading and esraj recital.
1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (547) in honour of Nelson Mandela, attended by Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy meditates before the start of an 18-kilometre race through the centre of Skopje, Macedonia organised by his students. Beginning and finishing in Macedonia Square, where Mother Teresa’s house used to be, the event commemorates the 18 years she lived there. At the start of the event, the President of the Macedonian Olympic Committee, Vasil Tupurkovski, presents Sri Chinmoy with ‘The Spirit of the Ancient Olympic Games Award’.
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1968
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Meaning of Life’, at the Inter-American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Sunlit Path’, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Outer Running and the Inner Running’, at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (44) at the Odeon Theatre in Birmingham, UK.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (204) at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. There, he sings his new peace song for 1990, ‘Supreme Supreme Shanti Shanti’, for the first time.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts The Very Reverend Edward Carpenter, former Dean of Westminster; and Brother Daniel Faivre, Director of the Westminster Interfaith Programme, at Westminster Cathedral in London, UK.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Kuldip Nayar, Indian High Commissioner to the UK, at India House in London, UK.
1992
Sri Chinmoy runs 100 metres with Sudhahota Carl Lewis in 14:33 at the dedication of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Track at Robertson Stadium, University of Houston, in Houston, TX, USA. Sri Chinmoy also meets with Leroy Burrell, 1992 Olympic gold medallist in the 4 x 100 metres relay; Floyd Heard, 1989 US Champion for 200 metres; and Mike Marsh, 1992 Olympic gold medallist in 200 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay.
1992
Sri Chinmoy honours Ambalika Lewis, mother of Sudarhota Carl Lewis and Carol Lewis, on her 63rd birthday, in Houston, Texas. In her youth, Ambalika, known as Evelyn Lawler, held the American record for the 80-metre hurdles.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (314) to an audience of 7,500 at the University of Houston in Houston, TX, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the ANC, during a programme held in his honour in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
São Tomé and Principe is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Prospect Point, Niagara Falls, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Inter-American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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1968
Sri Chinmoy requests each disciple present at the Wednesday evening Meditation Class at the Aum Centre in Puerto Rico to give him one spiritual word or idea which he would elaborate upon. The entire program is tape-recorded and transcribed by Agni (Mr. Jose Luis Casanova).
1969
An article announcing the immanent arrival of Sri Chinmoy in Japan for a 15-day series of lectures and meetings, appears in the Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, Japan.
1975
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Now’, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Aspiration’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and a meditation at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1.5 miles in 9:47 (6:31 pace), placing first in the Masters Division, at the YMCA Fun Run in Elizabeth, NJ, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts one ton of paper, a truck and 40 bales of hay, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and a meditation at the Hindu Mandir in Garfield, NJ, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ronnie Lott and Keena Turner of the San Francisco 49ers Football Team; Henry Martinez, 1988 Olympic, USA Boxing Team, light flyweight class; Andy Nance, 4-time Golden Gloves champion, 1978-1981; Mickey Thomas, lead male singer of ‘Jefferson Starship’ rock music band; and Mac Wilkins, 1976 Olympic gold medallist and 1984 Olympic silver medallist in the discus, at Tiburon Mall in Tiburon, CA, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (161) at the Masonic Memorial Hall in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts Matthew Carrington and Keith Vaz, members of the British Parliament; and Evelyn Glennie, legendary deaf musician, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London, UK.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Laurens van der Post, famous explorer and author, at Sir Van Der Post’s residence in Kensington, London, UK.
1998
Sri Chinmoy honours Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa’s African National Congress, and Valentina Razvin, wife of Aleksandr Razvin, Russia’s Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
2005
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Human Freedom and Divine Freedom’ at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Puerto Rico.
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1969
Sri Chinmoy begins his first lecture tour in Japan and the Far East.
1975
Sri Chinmoy offers his definitions of fifty qualities, attributes and states of consciousness. They are subsequently published in God’s Magnet-Eye.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (45) at Le Zénith in Paris, France.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts an elephant, an aeroplane and a seaplane in the Long Island environs, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Frank Zane, 3-time Mr. Olympia and 3-time Mr. Universe, at Frank Zane’s residence in Palm Springs, CA, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Denean Hill, 1984 Olympic gold medallist, 1988 Olympic silver medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay; and Sherri Howard, 1984 Olympic gold medallist, 1988 Olympic silver medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay, at Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster Cathedral, at Westminster Cathedral Hall in London, UK.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (250) and a pipe organ recital to an audience of 5,000 at Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
1993
Sri Chinmoy lifts Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy attends the display of his Soul-Bird drawings at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy visits with old friends Sam Spanier and Eric Hughes at their home in Woodstock, New York, NY, USA. The two were instrumental in arranging for Sri Chinmoy to come to the West and warmly welcomed him into their home in Manhattan when he arrived from India on April 13, 1964.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (465) at Fair Street Reformed Church in Kingston, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy had his 8th meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev at JFK International Airport in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Eurosites in Paris, France.
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1990
Sri Chinmoy’s interview with radio personality Berit Berling is broadcast on Swedish National Radio in Stockholm, Sweden. The interview was recorded during his visit to Stockholm from 14-16 October 1990.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, (431) dedicated to the United Nations, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. At the concert, he recites twenty-six short poems on the theme of ‘Sincerity’, which are later published in his book, Two Divine Qualities: Confidence and Sincerity. Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting 26 poems . . .
1998
Sri Chinmoy, for the first time, employs a new technique during his single-arm lifts. Instead of holding onto the side of the apparatus, he releases his non-lifting hand — a much more difficult technique, because he is not holding onto anything. He uses this same technique with future lifts to demonstrate he is not taking any support.
1998
In the evening, Sri Chinmoy lifts his bodyweight 100 times in 2 minutes, 86 seconds in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy meets with Per Sandberg, a Member of the Norwegian Parliament, on his visit to Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
2005
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 203-lb. wrist curl, performing ten repetitions with each hand, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy receives an honorary proclamation in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at a special ceremony to launch the New York City Marathon at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Amphitheatre in New York, NY, USA. There he meets with ultra-runner Ted Corbitt and presented an award to Fred Lebow, President and Founder of the New York Road Runners Club. As part of the programme, a song composed by Sri Chinmoy entitled ‘Marathon’ is sung by his students.
1979
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Emil Zatopek, 1952 triple Olympic gold medallist for 5 km, 10 km and marathon, at the start of the New York City Marathon on Staten Island, NY, USA. Before the race, Sri Chinmoy also met with ultramarathon champion Don Ritchie.
1979
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:48:53 in New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts a small house; lifts animals on a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and lifts 8 US government employees at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including Charles Smith, 1988 US Olympic bronze medallist in basketball, at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, DC, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Shigeto Kanayama, Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Hiroshi Nishida, Concertmaster, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy holds the opening meditation at an interfaith celebration in honour of the United Nation’s 50th anniversary at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy completes the first 10,000 poems of Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees in 9 months, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (598) to an audience of 8,000, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 30 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, in honour of Karen Karagezian of the Gorbachev Foundation, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘India’s Soul-Offering’, – the first in the Upanishad series – at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Radio WNYC and plays his first radio esraj concert live on air, ahead of his first public esraj performance on 30 October at St. Thomas Church in New York, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy offers a short talk, entitled ‘The Third Eye’, at All Angels Church, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the New York Road Runners Club reception for Olympic and world-class runners; and receives the New York City Marathon Medal from Fred Lebow, President and Marathon Race Director of the New York Road Runners Club at the United Nations in New York. At the reception, Sri Chinmoy honours marathon runner Miki Gorman. The next day she is the first-placed woman in the NYC Marathon for the second year in a row.
1978
Sri Chinmoy composes one of his famous running songs, ‘O Marathon Runner’.
1979
Sri Chinmoy begins his poetry series Ten Thousand Flower-Flames. He writes the first 70 poems (1-70) on a Pan Am flight en route to Japan from New York, NY. USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico, at the Governor’s mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1994
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (396) at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts Swami Bua-ji, 109 years old, President of the Indo-American Society, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Magician Ricky Jay as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. As a gift to Sri Chinmoy, he presents him with a copy of his latest book, Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ron Rebhuhn, long-time USTA Eastern tournament director, tennis coach, and USPTA Master Professional; and Bholanath Clyde Weinmann, his first disciple in the West, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a lecture, entitled ‘Hinduism: Its Spiritual Significance’, at the Adult Class of Comparative Religion, Chaim Weizmann Chapter of Hadassah, West Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
1969
Sri Chinmoy visits the Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at the Kōtoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan, for the first time. He writes two poems, ‘The Home of Awakened Mankind’ and ‘To Kamakura’, both later published in My Salutation to Japan. While in Kamakura, he also visits the home of Roshi Philip Kapleau (author of the Three Pillars of Zen) and his family.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 30 poems (71-100) in the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 1.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (135) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (162) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Vladimir Petrovsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy is the guest of honour at a ceremony naming Puerto Rico a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom at Muñoz Rivera Park Peace Pavilion in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1995
Sri Chinmoy meets with Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy performs 10 crunch abdomen-ups pushing 367-lbs. in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Millennium Peace Concert to an audience of 5,000 at Central Park East Meadow in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy’s students also sing two special songs he had written in honour of City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who attends the concert.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Scottish Rite Temple in San Diego, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy dines with Ravi Shankar and his wife Sukanya at the popular vegetarian restaurant, Jyoti-Bihanga, in San Diego, CA, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Fifth World Spiritual Summit with UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at the United Nations in New York, at which Sri Chinmoy first meets Mother Teresa.
1977
Sri Chinmoy joins his Puerto Rican students outside the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the start of the United Nations Day Relay Run to celebrate the 32nd birthday of the United Nations.
1978
Sri Chinmoy observes United Nations Day with a special programme in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy has his third meeting with Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary-General, at the United Nations in New York.
1979
Sri Chinmoy presents 100 of his published books to Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation and concert at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. There, he also answers questions.
1981
Sri Chinmoy writes a song for New Zealand runner Allison Roe, NYC Marathon Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:44:41 in New York, NY, USA. Read Sri Chinmoy’s account of the race and following stories.
1986
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Joel Martin on Long Island Cable Television in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts and is interviewed by Bill McCreary, Emmy Award-winning News Broadcaster, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The meeting would later form part of a feature about Sri Chinmoy, broadcast on Channel 5’s The McCreary Report.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Robert F. Van Lierop, Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the UN, at the United Nations in New York.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (205) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (315) at the Metropolitan University Theater in Cupey, Puerto Rico.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. with each arm separately after only 25 days of practice, then lifts different groups of people including, bodybuilders with left leg only (2568 lbs.); the Sri Chinmoy Bhajan Singers (2,770 lbs.); and Paree’s group of singers (1,269 lbs.) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Austria.
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1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled ‘New Creation’, at the Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘True Spirituality and Inner Life’, at 1 p.m. at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sound-Life and Silence-Life’, at 8:30 p.m. at Northern State College in Aberdeen, SD, USA
1976
The first Sri Chinmoy Sangit is held in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at the Museo Del Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner World and the Outer World’, in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes thirty poems (101-130) during a train ride from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 2.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:36:22 in New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 700 lbs. using a seated calf raise; and lifted a steamroller using a one-leg calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
‘Honey Fitz’, the presidential yacht used by five American Presidents, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Yacht, in New York, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute High School, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. En route to the concert, Sri Chinmoy composes a special prayer; at a later date, he elaborates on its significance.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (599) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1969
An article about Sri Chinmoy is published by the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo, Japan, during his first lecture tor of the Far-East.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ego and Emotion’, at 7 p.m. at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Religion, Spirituality and Yoga’, at Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an Official Guest of Honor of Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with Don Francisco Matos Paoli at the poet’s home in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes twenty poems at the Osaka Grand Hotel in Osaka, Japan. Later published as poems 131-150, in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 2.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in Osaka, Japan.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with champion New Zealand runner Allison Roe at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA, the day after she won the women’s division of the New York City Marathon.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts one ton of pumpkins in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The First Estate: Religion in Review’ by producer and host Dr. Russell Barber, highly respected religion editor and Emmy Award winner at WNBC-TV, in New York, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy sets music to three of his best-known aphorisms on the theme of Peace.
1993
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his sister Lily’s birthday at his home in New York on the evening of the 26th, which is the morning of her birthday, the 27th in Pondicherry, India.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (466) at the Murrayfield Ice Rink in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan when the world-famous sarod player gave a special concert for the spiritual teacher and his students at Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy features in a religion documentary at ABC-TV in New York, NY, USA.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the School of Architecture in Halifax, NS, Canada.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 604 lbs. using only his right arm ay his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including numerous Washington University professors and Olympic athletes at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including Noumou Diakite, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (280) at Festhalle to an audience of 8,000 in Frankfurt, Germany.
1992
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Ottawa, to honour the city on becoming a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital.
1996
The Forth Railway Bridge, one of the United Kingdom’s most famous bridges, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Bridge. Those attending the ceremony, include officials of Railtrack, which owns the bridge; L. M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK; and Sri Chinmoy himself. Also, the same day, Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘My Scotland’.
1998
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, NY, USA.
1999
The Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held in New York, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Karan Singh, former Indian Ambassador to the US, author, diplomat and present titular Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates his new meditation Centre in Montreal, Canada.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yoga and Spirituality’, at the University of Honolulu, in Honolulu, HI, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes fifteen poems (306-320) on a plane ride from Calcutta to Hyderabad in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (46) at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy holds a special tennis tournament for priests at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. The winner of the event is Monsignor Thomas Hartman (Father Tom) from Long Island, New York.
1991
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Hessischer Rundfunk (National German Radio) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1991
The Astoria, an 850-passenger ship on the Main River, is designated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Ship in Frankfurt, Germany.
1994
Sri Chinmoy receives the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award together with Coretta Scott King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan banquet commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s 125th birth anniversary held at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy first meets Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India, at the Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (432) — the 32nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Marina Hotel in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts members of the diplomatic community, including the following Permanent Representatives to the UN: Fátima Veiga, Cape Verde; Crispin Grey-Johnson, The Gambia; Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Guinea; Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Kenya; Cheick Sidi Diarra, Mali; Aminu Bashir Wali, Nigeria; and Boniface Chidyausiku, Zimbabwe, at a programme hosted by Ibrahim Gambari, UN Under-Secretary-General, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Prior to the lifting programme, Sri Chinmoy honoured his guests with a special banquet at Annam Brahma restaurant. After the lifts, the diplomats join Sri Chinmoy at the nearby Pilgrim-Museum.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘Belief and Faith’, at 7 p.m. at Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, AK, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes ten poems (366-375) during a car ride from Madras to Pondicherry. He continues to write twenty-five more poems (376-400) on 29 and 30 October at the home of his family in Pondicherry in India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 4.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (47) at the Beacon Theater in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Addwitiya Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Dan Lurie, President and Founder of the World Bodybuilding Guild; and Wayne Demilia, Vice-President, International Federation of Bodybuilders, Head Judge, Mr. and Mrs. Olympia Competitions Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Prince Charles greets the runners of the global Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run — the longest torch relay in history — and holds the Peace Torch while on a visit to Canada with his wife Diana Princess of Wales and their sons William and Harry.
1994
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for the Gandhi Symposium, hosted by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, at St. Peter’s Church in New York, NY, USA. Attending the symposium, is Dr. L.M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK.
1994
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of the Republic of India, at Annam Brahma Restaurant tin Jamaica, NY, USA. The former President also holds the Peace Torch.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at a programme on Thomas Jefferson at the United Nations in New York.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1969
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, ‘Self-Knowledge’, at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, The Philippines.
1970
Sri Chinmoy invites members of his recently formed university meditation groups — from Brandeis, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers and Columbia to name a few — to a talk and meditation he is conducting especially for them, held in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Labouisse, Executive Director of UNICEF, at UNICEF in New York.
1976
Sri Chinmoy offers his first public esraj concert in continental USA at St. Thomas Church, cnr. 5th Avenue and 53rd Street, in New York, NY, USA. His first public concert on the esraj was held in Puerto Rico.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes fifteen poems (401-415) on 29 and 30 October, at his family home in Pondicherry, India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 5.
1982
Sri Chinmoy meets with Giani Zail Singh, President of India, in New York, NY, USA. Read more...
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for the centenary of the Arya Samaj at the Arya Samaj Temple in Jamaica, NY, USA, where he meets with Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman, Founder and Executive Director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, USA, for the first time.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,700 lbs. using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts a 605-lb. pumpkin at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (136) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 people, including members of the medical and religious communities; and Miss Hungary 1998, Leila Sas, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1994
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy visits ‘Sacred Rock’ — home of Grammy-Award-winning musician Narada Michael Walden in Tiburon, California, USA — to dedicate the first Sri Chinmoy statue. He meditates with Narada privately and then meets with many of Narada's seeker-friends. During their private meditation, Sri Chinmoy offers Narada a special message. (The installation was commissioned by Narada and created by renowned British sculptor Kaivalya Torpy.)
2000
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honor of Iceland.
2000
Sri Chinmoy is guest of honour at the Iceland Sri Chinmoy Peace-Nation Inauguration Ceremony hosted by Reykjavik Mayor Ingibjörg Gísladóttir at Hofdi House (site of Presidents Gorbachev and Reagan 1986 Summit) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Former Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannsson also lent his support to the occasion.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (600) at Reykjavik University Theatre in Reykjavik, Iceland. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 40 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, virtuoso guitarist and 1994 Grammy Award Winner, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1997-2002), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Russian Culture Informational Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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1966
Mr. Lakhan L. Mehrotra, Consul, Indian Consulate, New York, USA, offers a glowing testimonial about Chinmoy Kumar Ghose after his resignation from the Consulate.
1969
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God, Truth and Love’, at Southwestern University in Cebu City, The Philippines.
1977
Sri Chinmoy receives a hand-deliveered letter from the renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein, congratulating him on his artistic achievements.
1977
Sri Chinmoy attends his Jharna-Kala exhibition for the International Year of the Child held at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Aldaba-Lim, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and recently appointed Special Representative for the International Year of the Child, at a fund-raising bazaar held for UNICEF by the United Nations Meditation Group. Sri Chinmoy gives an impromptu flute performance and the UN singers also perform Sri Chinmoy’s new song ‘UNICEF’. The event is opened by Dr, Aldaba Lim.
1979
Sri Chinmoy writes twenty poems (416-435) on the trip from Madras to Bombay, India. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 5.
1980
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Abdel-Rahman Abdalla of the Democratic Republic of Sudan to the United Nations, at the UN in New York, at a special programme marking the twenty-fourth anniversary of Sudan joining the United Nations.
1987
Sri Chinmoy meets with Marty Gallagher, weightlifting and powerlifting champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (206) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (251) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the New York Road Runners Club Pre-Marathon Friendship Run, where he meets with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the United Nations in New York.
1998
Sri Chinmoy lifts 9 English Channel swimmers (2,133 lbs.); disciples from 27 countries (4,150 lbs.); a giant pumpkin with 5 men (2,330 lbs.); two grand pianos with players (2,035 lbs.); 3 motorcycles with riders (3,101 lbs.); and 10 mountain climbers (2,385 lbs.) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation at the British House of Commons in London, UK.
2000
Mongolia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.