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MARCH 1ST

 

1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality and Yoga of the Upanishads’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Heart-Peace of the United Nations’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Japanese School of New York in Fresh Meadows, NY, USA.

 

1984

Sri Chinmoy begins meditations for members of the United States Congress, at the Rayburn Office Building in Washington, DC, USA.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a piano performance at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1988

Sri Chinmoy offers two pipe organ recitals in Connecticut, USA. A morning recital is held at the First United Church of Christ Congregational in Milford. Sri Chinmoy then lifts his own body-weight of 155 pounds and is interviewed on The Fairfield Exchange, a Norwalk-based television show. Next comes an organ recital at Woolsey Hall at Yale University in New Haven, followed by an interview with the New Haven Register. The day ends with a television interview at the college station at the University of Bridgeport. Listen to the CD...

 

1996
The Sydney Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom by Lloyd Martin, General Manager of the Sydney Opera House Trust, in Sydney Australia. At the same time, the General Manager officially opens the exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Dream-Freedom Peace-Birds that are displayed in the Exhibition Hall.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (488) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1999
Slovakia is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (midday, an audience of 4,000; and evening, an audience of 4,000) at Sportova Hala Pasienky in Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

1999
Wales is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Kiribati Award.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with President Gorbachev, presenting him with a special award ‘President Gorbachev: The Home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World’ in honour of his late wife Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at The Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow, Russia.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy meets with Omar Zulfu Livaneli, Member of the Turkish Parliament and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador – Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 2ND

 

1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God: the Supreme Actor. World: the Divine Audience’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God’s Compassion and the United Nations’ Dedication’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Why?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with world champion surfer Ian Cairns in the morning at ‘Flame-Waves’ restaurant in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed at ‘Flame-Waves’ restaurant in the morning by a reporter from the Daily News and the article appears in the final edition of the newspaper the same day in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Anglican Dean of Perth Rev. John Cornish in the morning at St George’s Cathedral in Perth, WA, Australia. Their meeting is covered by The West Australian and an article appears in the newspaper the next day.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy has an afternoon meeting with Aboriginal poet Jack Davis in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers his first lecture in Australia, entitled ‘Aspiration’, in the evening at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, WA, Australia. It draws over 500 people and after seating space runs out, many seekers sit cross-legged on the floor.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and public meditation at Rockland Community College in Rockland, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Inner Wealth’, to a small gathering at his home in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy writes an essay, entitled ‘Women’s Liberation and Oneness-Satisfaction’, which is subsequently read out at a function in honour of International Women’s Day, sponsored by ‘Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations’ on March 9, 1981, at the UN in New York.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers the Preparation-Cry-Smile concert in Jamaica, Queens, New York, prior to his concert tour of Germany.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (262) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Prince Sigvard and Princess Marianne Bernadotte of Sweden at the United Nations in New York.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy meets with Michael Kovac, former President of Slovakia in Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers his 1,000th Weightlifting Prayer before doing 60 one-arm pushes with 700 pounds, as part of his daily lifting practice at his home in Jamaica NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy is an honoured guest at President Gorbachev’s 70th Birthday Celebration held at the Grand Hotel Marriott in Moscow, Russia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy places a wreath of 70 roses at Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva’s ‘Long Home’ in Moscow, Russia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Austria and the Heart of Russia awards.

 

2001
Turkmenistan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 15th Piano Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2004
To celebrate the 17th anniversary of his piano playing, Sri Chinmoy gives a recital at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Real Joy’at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 3RD

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers the first in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’,¹ in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Lord Mayor of Perth, the Right Honourable Earnest Lee-Steere, in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mayor Charles Smith of Nedlands and plants a rose bush for world peace at the Nedlands Memorial Rose Gardens in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Philosophy, Spirituality and Yoga’, at the University of Western Australia in Perth, WA, Australia.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy runs his first marathon in a time of 4:31:34 at the Bidwell Classic in Chico, CA, USA

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Life of Blossoming Love’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Transcendence’, at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (226) at Saint Peter’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

 

1999
The Czech Republic is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Lichtenstein Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

1999

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 13,000 at the Sportovní Hala Sparta in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at the Town Gallery in Trencin, Slovakia.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum from Guatemala at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 4TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity and Surety’, at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, USA.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Control’, at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers his first Dag Hammarskjöld lecture, entitled ‘Is the Spiritual Life an Escape from Reality?’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously plays his first extemporaneous keyboard improvisation at Flame-Waves restaurant in Perth, WA, Australia. It later becomes Side A of the LP album, ‘Improvisations’.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy visits Yanchep National Park, north of Perth in Western Australia. There, Sri Chinmoy sees Australian marsupials for the first time. He delights in seeing the kangaroos and blesses one of the oldest koalas in the park, 17-year-old ‘Nobby’. Also at the park, Sri Chinmoy composes Bengali songs while seated beside the beautiful spring-fed lake, Loch McNess.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy creates seven acrylic Jharna-Kala paintings in Perth, Western Australia, which he presents to the Perth Centre.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy departs Perth at 11 p.m. for a plane trip across the Australian continent to Sydney, the capital of the state of New South Wales, on the East coast.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Pray and We Meditate’, at the State University of New York in Albany, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Desiring Man, the Aspiring Man and the Self-giving Man’, at the Union College of Schenectady in New York, NY, USA.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, CA, USA.

 

1991
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Unison Gallery in New Paltz, NY, USA.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and an exhibition of his artworks for President Gorbachev and Raisa Maximovna at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, NY, USA.

 

1999
Hungary is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at Danube Palace in Budapest, Hungary.

 

1999

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kztircack Square in Budapest, Hungary.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Finland Award.

 

2002

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and lifts special guest of honour UN Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 5TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘The Spiritual Life’, in Room 103, at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Silence’, in Battenfield Auditorium, Student Center, at Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, KS, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (12:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Do We Love God?’, in Omaha Milo Bail Student Center, at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, NE, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (9 p.m.), entitled ‘Prayer’, in Room 217, Haag Hall, at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, MO, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy arrives in Sydney at Kingsford Smith Airport in the early morning. Then, holds a mid-day, public meditation at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, MSW, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Realisation’, at the Town Hall in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Some 400-500 people attend the meeting at which all his Australian disciples sing the ‘Invocation’ together for the first time.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and a public meditation at Loyola College in Montreal, QC, Canada.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the ‘The Symposium on Life, Death and Psychic Research’ in Montreal, QC, Canada.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Liberation’, at the State University of New York in Oneonta, NY, USA.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy receives the Special Service Award from the New York Road Runners Club.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (174), with performances on the piano and pipe organ; delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Meditation’, and recites 5 peace poems, at Alumnae Hall, Brown University, in Providence, RI, USA.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy meets with Khalid Khannouchi, the world’s fastest marathon runner (2:05:42) at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Ukraine Award.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people including musician Ravi Coltrane, son of legendary musicians John and Alice Coltrane, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

MARCH 6TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Science and Spirituality’, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Service’, at 12 noon in the Student Union Theater at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (4 p.m.), entitled ‘Renunciation’ in the Westby Student Center, Great Hall, at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy takes a morning ferry ride to visit Taronga Zoo, Australia’s oldest zoo, on the northern side of Sydney Harbour.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with Reverend Ted Noffs, Rector of the Wayside Chapel, who introduces him to the audience before his historic evening lecture, entitled ‘Peace’, at the Wayside Chapel in the heart of the Kings Cross in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

 

1976
Later in the evening, Sri Chinmoy and his students visit ‘Luna Park’, a 1930s-style funfair and amusement park, at Milsons Point on the northern side of Sydney Harbour, after which, they go ten-pin bowling at Rushcutters Bay Bowl in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and public meditation at Laval University in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Perfection’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 200 lbs., using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article…

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for his 15th Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (331) at Public School 220 in Forest Hills, NY, USA.

 

1996
The Sydney Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom by Lloyd Martin, General Manager of the Sydney Opera House Trust, in Sydney Australia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Hungary, the Heart of Latvia and the Heart of Macedonia Awards.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 members of Iceland’s Parliament including President Halldor Blondal, as well as Iceland’s former Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannsson and 24 other people, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 17th Piano Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with singer/songwriter Sting and his wife Trudie at their residence in New York, NY, USA.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts New Zealand-born soprano singer, ballet dancer, and internationally acclaimed songwriter Hayley Westenra at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

MARCH 7TH

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Discovery and Transformation’; and the final in the series of four lectures on Kundalini Yoga, entitled ‘The Yoga of Shakti’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture (9 a.m.), entitled ‘Friendship’, in Room 104, Student Center, at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Education’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations, New York. He also answers three questions – 1, 2, 3 — from the audience.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 100 large Jharna-Kala paintings in 19 hours, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy creates seven Jharna-Kala chalk sketches in Sydney, NSW, Australia, which he presents to the Sydney Centre.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy visits the home of the Australian film and TV actor-singer Barry Crocker and his wife Dene in Sydney’s northern suburbs for a picnic with his students.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy makes the first recording of his esraj music at Tin Pan Alley Music Studios in Sydney, Australia. He was the first person to record an album there. The vinyl LP record, which also contains vocal tracks, was subsequently released as ‘Peace-Light-Delight’.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy takes an evening boat cruise on Sydney Harbour aboard the ‘Captain Cook’ ferry and gives a talk on the ‘Golden Boat’, which is recorded by ABC Radio. The captain allows Sri Chinmoy to steer the ferry for a time.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at the United Nations in New York and presents him his book U Thant: Divinity’s Smile and Humanity’s Cry.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Concentrate, We Meditate’, at Pace University in White Plains, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy returns to run the Bidwell Classic marathon in a time of 4:30:21 in Chico, CA, USA. He ran his first ever marathon here, two years earlier, on 3 March 1979.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy meets with Matina Horner, President of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, MA, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates Harvard Peace Meditation; offers a Peace Concert (65) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘First Become Peace-Dreamers’, at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (175), with a piano performance and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Perfection-Fragrance’, and recites two Peace-Concert poems, at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

2000
Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy gives a discourse on ‘Attachment to Time’ in response to a question from one of his students, at his home in Jamaica, New York, USA.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy gives a private organ recital at Hallgrimskirkja — the Church of Hallgrimur — in Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mrs. Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice-President of The Gambia, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 8TH

 

1975
The first Jharna-Kala Parade is held on Madison Ave in New York, NY, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Eternal Seeker’, at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and a public meditation at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 13th Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks are exhibited at the Mall Gallery in London, UK.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Sri Lanka Award.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 children from Omna Ancient Arts Centre in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 9TH

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy takes an early morning flight from Canberra to Melbourne, the capital of the state of Victoria, before delivering a lunchtime lecture, entitled ‘The Reality Within’, in the Open Stage Theatre at the State College of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy creates seven Jharna-Kala pen drawings in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, which he presents to the Melbourne Centre.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and public meditation at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration-Art’, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, USA.

 

1982

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Martin Van Buren High School in New York, NY, USA. Listen to the concert...

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a tribute to Trygve Lie, the first UN Secretary-General, with his daughter, Ms. Guri Lie, as the guest speaker, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (263) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992

Sri Chinmoy plants a Peace Tree and holds a meditation in the Kōtoku-In Temple, home of the Daibutsu, Great Buddha, in Kamakura, Japan.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Western Flute Anniversary Peace Concert (461) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1999

Sri Chinmoy lifts Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, in Pretoria, South Africa. Watch the video...

 

1999
South Africa is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, in Pretoria, South Africa.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Scotland Award.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Western Flute Anniversary Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

MARCH 10TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers the second in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’,² in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1976

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Simplicity, Sincerity, Purity and Divinity’, at the Melbourne Assembly Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

 

1980
After months of following a strict diet and exercise regime, Sri Chinmoy finally reaches a body weight of 130 pounds. His students award him the good-humoured ‘Nobelly Prize’.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy’s meditation group at the UN, sponsors a programme in tribute to International Women’s Day — 8 March being the official date — at the United Nations in New York.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons from Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, at Progress-Promise function hall in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1988

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (147) at Aurora Concert Hall in Florence, Italy.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a organ recital at Duomo Santa Maria Del Fiore — Florence Cathedral — in Florence, Italy.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy answers questions about his visit to Japan at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1992

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (298) at the Nippon Budokan Hall to an audience of 12,000 in Tokyo, Japan. Afterwards, some 3,000 seekers slowly file past Sri Chinmoy for darshan, his silent blessing.

 

 

MARCH 11TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity and Spirituality’, at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, USA.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Willpower and Victory’s Crown’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Greenwich Public Library, CT, USA.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ron Clarke – Australian Olympic middle-distance runner and former holder of 17 world records – in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Sri Chinmoy also composed a song dedicated to the great champion the day before the meeting.

 

1976
On his last morning in Melbourne, Australia, Sri Chinmoy and his students visit Olympic Park, which was the venue for the Olympic Games in 1956. Here Sri Chinmoy runs a few laps, jumps hurdles and uses the broad jump pit. He also visits the Beaurepaire Centre swimming pool adjacent to the stadium.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation and delivers a lunchtime lecture, entitled ‘Happiness’, in the Robert Blackwood Memorial Hall at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy departs Melbourne in the early afternoon by plane bound for Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia and the final city on his Australian tour. He arrives at Adelaide Airport at 4:30 p.m.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at Brougham Place Congregational Church in Adelaide, SA, Australia.

 

1977
BBC’s UN correspondent, Brian Saxton, tapes a half-hour interview with Sri Chinmoy at the United Nations in New York.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a morning lecture (11:00 a.m.), entitled ‘We Shall Wait’, at the State University College at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (3:00 p.m.), entitled ‘We Shall Not Wait’, at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for a ten-day visit to Florida, USA.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (148) at the Singel Centre in Antwerp, Belgium.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘To Become like Hanuman’, and answers questions about the great devotee of Sri Ramachandra, at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, New York.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy performs a concert at Lincoln Center, sponsored by World-Harmony Pilgrim-Dream Foundation in New York, NY, USA.

 

1996

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed live from New York on a national ABC Radio programme called ‘Australia Talks Back’ where host Sandy McCutcheon explores the question, “Where have all the gurus gone?” After performing a Peace Concert at the Lincoln Center in New York that evening, Sri Chinmoy gives the answer to Australian listeners (morning, March 12). Of all the gurus who had been popular during the 1960s and ’70s, Sri Chinmoy is the only one to be interviewed on the programme. View the video...

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2003

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for his 30th Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy performs the first ‘Oneness, Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon’ lift for couples – Sarbottama Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian Olympic gold medal long-jumper and her husband Mahavikram Nikolay Matveev, coach of the Russian National Athletic Team – in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 12TH

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed at a morning press conference held at his hotel,l in Adelaide, SA, Australia. There, he sings ‘O My Australia’ and plays the esraj. Later that evening, excerpts go to air on Channel 7 News — the first time his esraj playing had been broadcast on television anywhere in the world.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with Bishop Phillip Kennedy, the Catholic Bishop of Adelaide in Adelaide, SA, Australia. Also present at the meeting is Sister Patricia Fox as well as the leader of Sri Chinmoy’s Adelaide Centre, Sipra Lloyd.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy is received at Government House in Adelaide, SA, Australia, where he is the luncheon guest of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Mark Oliphant.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy visits Adelaide’s ABC TV studios in the afternoon to tape an interview for ‘This Day Tonight’ with compere Geoff Michells for the evening programme.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture, entitled, ‘Possession and Satisfaction’, in the Napier Lecture Theatre at the University of Adelaide, SA, Australia. The lecture hall is full to capacity.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy creates four large acrylic Jharna-Kala paintings and seven ballpoint-pen ink sketches at the Adelaide Centre.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Bob de Jong of Veronica TV, Holland.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at St. Bavo Kerk in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The organ Sri Chinmoy plays is one that Mozart had once played when he was around 16 years of age.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Grote Kerk in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (149) playing various instruments, and a piano performance at the Congress Building in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy recounts a dream, ‘The Divine Runner Inspires the Human Runner’.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy composes the Peace Run song, which has since been sung in over 155 nations and territories around the world as part of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run global torch relay.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo 100 metres in a time of 13.91 seconds at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, breaking his previous 100-metre record in the West of 14.13 seconds, set on 18 January 1992, in Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Armenia Award.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch — the symbol of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run — with Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis and his mother Ambalika Evelyn Lewis.

 

 

MARCH 13TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 100 large ‘finger paintings’ in 12 hrs. 45 min., in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy concludes his first Australian lecture tour, flying out of Adelaide in the early morning to Perth on the west coast for a connecting flight to Madras in India. From there, he goes on to Pondicherry for a two-week stay with his family before returning to New York.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 200 lbs., using only his right arm, setting a new record for his weight (157 lbs.) and age (54 years), at his home gym in Jamaica, New York. Later, Sri Chinmoy is awarded a Certificate of Recognition and Merit by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States for his noteworthy achievement in lifting 200 pounds with one arm. A similar certificate is presented by the British Amateur Weightlifters Association.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to his homeland India at a special function sponsored by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’, at the UN in New York. Almost 100 Indian officials from the Indian consulate and the UN Secretariat attended, including special guests of honour P.A. Nazareth, Consul-General of India and his wife.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (150) and an organ recital at the Odd Fellow Palæet in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (156) with a piano performance and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Oneness-Nest’, at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (227) at the Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at the International Relations Centre in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy plants a Peace-Tree at Hana-Haku Park in Osaka, Japan.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Australia – My Indian Mind Is Flying’.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a 4-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at Drei Mohren Hotel in Augsburg, Germany.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

2000

Peace Concert at Sala Palatului — Palace Hall — in Bucharest, Romania, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. (2,500 people attended.)

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Colombia Award.

 

2001
Germany is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 28th Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘To the End I Will Love the United Nations’, at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 14TH

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery in Hamburg, Germany.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Do We Have the Capacity to Help Others?’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates a new mediation centre in the New York area — the Gold Centre.

 

1960
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Five Soulful Friends’, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Following the talk, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from the audience.

 

1988
An article about Sri Chinmoy appears in the Dutch newspaper, Haagsche Courant, in the Hague (Den Haag), the Netherlands.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Ullern Church in Oslo, Norway.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (151) and an organ recital at Oslo Konserthus in Oslo, Norway.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy receives a personally autographed copy of Raisa Gorbacheva’s book, I Hope, at Hotel Gimmond in Kyoto, Japan. Later that day, after arriving in Tokyo, Sri Chinmoy sends her a heartfelt letter of gratitude.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Head Priest of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (489) at RWS Economics School in Augsburg, Germany. There is also an exhibition of the 200,000 soul-bird drawings that Sri Chinmoy completed during his six-day visit to Europe.

 

2000

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (583) to an audience of 5,000 at the National Palace of Culture, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Also present in Sofia is the cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov who had met Sri Chinmoy in New York and brought the ‘Peace Torch’ of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run into orbit.

 

2000
Bulgaria is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation in Sofia, Bulgaria.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 15TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled, ‘Why Do I Have To Become Spiritual?’, as part of the Dag Hammarskjold Lecture Series, in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy is honoured by Donald Irwin, Mayor of Norwalk, in Norwalk, CT, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy cooks a 22-course meal for 465 of his students to honour the third anniversary of Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. He begins cooking at 1 a.m. and finishes nearly 14 hours later. Orders come in from his meditation centres as far away as Europe and Australia, and 265 of the dinners are then sent by air express to destinations around the world.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates a new mediation centre in the New York area — the Silver Group.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy opens a Santana concert with a silent meditation for world peace at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, USA. 19,000 people join with him in mediation.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled, ‘Hope’, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Following the talk, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from the audience.

 

1986

The first Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile — a permanently marked running course along the river Thames — is inaugurated by the Mayor of Wandsworth in Battersea Park in London, UK. Also attending the ceremony are, Members of Parliament, British running champions and dignitaries representing the Greater London Council, the United Nations Association and the Church. The programme includes several races, ending with a peace walk around the course, led by Sri Chinmoy. The ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile’ song, which Sri Chinmoy composed earlier the day, is sung at the ceremony.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy receives the World Citizen Humanitarian Award from the World Peace University in Eugene, OR, USA. Dr. F. Richard Schneider, the Chancellor of the private educational institute, which has campuses in Oregon, Chile and Bangladesh, presents the award.

 

1997

 

Sri Chinmoy meets with Prof. Dr. Anita B. Pfaff, daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and Prof. Dr. Martin Pfaff, Member of the Bundestag, at their home in Augsburg, Germany.

 

2000
Moldova is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

 

MARCH 16TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Myself’, at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Where Is God?’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Realisation’, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and reads a selection of his poetry at the Loeb Student Center, New York University, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What I Need from God’, and answers audience questions in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

1986
A 200-mile run is held to honour Sri Chinmoy’s 200-lb. lifting achievement, in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. Twenty-seven of his students enter the event, each one completing the distance in 4 days, ending on 20 March.
 

1988

Sri Chinmoy meets with Prime Minister Thorsheim Palsson and President Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland at Government House in Reykjavik, Iceland. Later in the afternoon, Sri Chinmoy meets with the Bishop of Iceland, Pétur Sigurgeirsson.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Frikirkjan — The Free Church of Reykjavik — in Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (152) and piano performance at the University Cinema in Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at the University Cinema in Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

1989

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (177) with a piano performance and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire versus Aspiration’, in Statler Hall at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Following the Peace Concert, Sri Chinmoy meets with Professor Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1981).

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mats Wilander of Sweden, 1988 world’s no. 1 tennis player, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also plays a set with the tennis champion.

 

1993

Australia’s capital city Canberra is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital by the Federal Minister for Sport Ros Kelly. During his stay in the nation’s capital on 26-27 June 1995, Sri Chinmoy visits all five ‘Canberra Sri Chinmoy Peace-Capital’ signs, installed at all entrances to Canberra under the ‘Welcome to Canberra’ signs.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation for Annam Brahma customers in conjunction with the New York restaurant’s recent 21st anniversary (15 March). He also answers questions asked by the staff.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Annam Brahma’ as a tribute to the popular vegetarian restaurant, in Jamaica, New York, USA. (The previous day, 15 March, marked its 22nd anniversary.)

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy achieves a standing two-arm lift of 320 lbs. (160 lbs with each arm) — a new double-arm record — in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1999
Botswana is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by President F.G. Mogae.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of St. Lucia Award.

 

2001
Russia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2002
Paree’s singing group, My Rainbow- Heart, observes its 15th anniversary with a performance for Sri Chinmoy at Public School 86, in Jamaica, New York. At its inception, the girl singers ranged in age from eight to fourteen.

 

2004

Sri Chinmoy lifts Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, at 11 a.m. at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Jenny Craig — founder of an international chain of exercise and weight loss centres — at 3 p.m., at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers remarks on the ‘Importance of Physical Fitness’, in Jamaica, New York, USA.

 

 

MARCH 17TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers the third in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’,³ in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Give, Receive and Become’, at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group he leads at the United Nations hold a& special function in honour of UNICEF staff members, at the UN in New York. Members of the Meditation Group perform Sri Chinmoy’s song ‘UNICEF’ for the first time.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Progress’, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace’, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy receives a plaque inscribed ‘To the Great Son of India’ together with the Twentieth Century Global Man Award from the Federation of Indian Associations, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy holds a special function in honour of Vladimir Petrovsky, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Vladimir Petrovsky, Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva, at the residence of Mr. Petrovsky, in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy lifts 160 lbs. with both arms simultaneously — a total weight of 320 lbs. — at his home gym in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

2000
Venezuela is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 18TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Poverty’, at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, ‘The Inner Light’, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Idea and Ideal’, in the Peace Room at the United Nations in New York.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy answers a series of questions, which were put to him in writing by the members of the United Nations Meditation Group in Geneva.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Gratitude-Heart’, at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, NY, USA.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by television host Russell Barber in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Hungary, Árpád Göncz, at the Hungarian Consulate in New York, NY, USA.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘World Peace From A Hindu Perspective: A Hindu World-Peace-Dreamer’, at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY, USA.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy receives a ‘Letter of Welcome’ to Seattle and the University of Washington on the occasion of his upcoming Peace Concert (226), from Gary Locke, Governor of the State of Washington. 

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy lifts 170 lbs., with both arms simultaneously — for a total weight of 340 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

MARCH 19TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Oneness’, at Laval University in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Choice’, at the State University of New York in Potsdam, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Seeker’s Duty’, at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, USA.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy is an invited guest at the ASUAB Veterans Athletics Championship held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. He presents the awards to the winners of the 20-kilometre walk and the 400-metre track race on the final day of the meet.

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to the United Nations Development Programme, which is accepted by Dr. Üner Kirdar, Director of the Division of External Relations and Governing Council Secretariat, UNDP, at a ceremony held on U Thant Island in the East River opposite the United Nations building in New York.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy appears on Long Island’s Cable News 12 in New York, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for his 21st Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes the song, ‘Australiai Western Flute’.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayerful homage to Maestro Yehudi Menuhin (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999), together with violinist Edna Michell, his lifelong musical associate, and performers from Mannes College of Music, at a special memorial service at the United Nations in New York.

 

 

MARCH 20TH

 

1966

Sri Chinmoy offers his second recital for the Asia Society, held at the Indian Cultural Centre in New York, NY, USA. His first musical performance is in June 1965, at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Read more...

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Consciousness of the Body’, at the City College of New York in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human, the Divine and the Supreme’, at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, QC, Canada.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Let Us Try to Empty the Mind’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.

 

1978
One of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms appears in Forbes Magazine, USA.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy hosts a programme at the United Nations in New York to observe the centennial of Albert Einstein’s birth (March 14, 1879). Featured speakers are the President of New York’s City College, the Ambassador of Cyprus, and H.E. Mr. Yehuda Z. Blum, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy first lifts a 101-lb. weight from the ground and presses it overhead with one arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (96) at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (332) at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.

 

1994

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s first one million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings opens at the Heritage Building in Ottawa, ON, Canada. View the video...

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy makes a guest appearance on WBAI’s radio talk show ‘Walden’s Pond’ in New York, NY, USA.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts HRH Princess Jelisaveta of Yugoslavia, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 21ST

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the University of Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Purity’, at the University of Montreal in Montreal, QC, Canada.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation for Earth Day and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Mother Earth’, at Battery Park in New York, NY, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of appreciation from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the City Council of New York, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Lord, My Lord’, at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, NY, USA.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy first meets with Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor, at the maestro’s home in New York, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled Because I Need’, at a memorial service for former Ambassador Allard Lowenstein held at the United Nations in New York.

 

1992

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (229) in Palac Kultury, Warsaw, Poland.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy lifts 800 lbs., using a seated calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Albania, Heart of Georgia, Heart of Micronesia and Heart of St. Kitts Awards.

 

2001
Bhutan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

 

MARCH 22ND

 

1972

Sri Chinmoy meets with Pope Paul VI for the first time, at The Vatican. The Holy Father presents Sri Chinmoy with the Papal Medal.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a noon lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration’, at Queens University in Kingston, ON, Canada.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an 8 p.m. lecture, entitled ‘Progress’, at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy gives an extemporaneous talk to his disciples about how to sing his most sacred song The Invocation, during a bus trip to Boston, MA, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Boston, MA, USA. While there, Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by two Boston journalists.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality Speaks to Simplicity’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy runs the Brooklyn Half-Marathon, in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He completes the course in a time of 1:57:28 — an 8:58/mile pace.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (97) with a piano performance at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy is presented with the ‘Our Lady, Queen of Peace’ award by the international Catholic service organisation, the Legion of Mary, during one of the regular weekly meditation meeting Sri Chinmoy conducts at the United Nations in New York. The award is made by Dr. Charles Mercieca on behalf of the Legion.

Later in the day at the UN, Sri Chinmoy is also presented with the ‘Albert Einstein Peace Medallion’ by the founder and president of the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation, Dr. Marcel Dingli-Attard (a Maltese diplomat). The Academy is an educational and research organisation with headquarters in Independence, Missouri.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy runs two solo time trials for 100 metres at an indoor venue in Warsaw, Poland. The first trial is run in 14.60 seconds; the second, in 14.73 seconds. His body weight is approximately 153 pounds.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of a Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile at Park Szczęśliwice (State of Happiness) in Warsaw, Poland.

 

1999
The Gambia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 lbs. with each arm simultaneously — a total weight of 400 lbs. — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2000
India’s capital New Delhi is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom by Mayor Meera Kanwaria.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 Guyanese and Indian citizens, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 23RD

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy begins writing The Dance of Life poetry series, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a midday lecture, entitled ‘Limitation’, at Trent University in Peterborough, ON, Canada. After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from the audience.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a special concert and meditation for members of the African-American community at International House, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk at the New School for Social Research in New York, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 3.5 miles in 25:29 (7:17 pace) at the ‘March Speed Run’ in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts — midday (25) and evening (26) — at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (264) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of a natural spring inside Powsin Park near Warsaw, Poland, as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom. Powsin Park was originally an American Embassy recreation park, later gifted to the City of Warsaw.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Stanislaw Wyganowski, Mayor of Warsaw, in Warsaw, Poland.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (300) at Zaklady Mechaniczne Nowotki in Warsaw, Poland. It is Sri Chinmoy’s 300th Peace Concert since he first began on 24 March 1984.

 

1994
A reception for diplomats is held at the exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s One Million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in the Heritage Building, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy receives the Fred Lebow Award from the organisers of the Rome Marathon, in Rome, Italy.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy completes six million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2000
The city of Vasco da Gama in the Indian state of Goa is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of United Kingdom Award.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 children and boy scouts at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 24TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Guru and the Hostile Forces’ to his disciples at a Centre meeting in his apartment in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Duty Supreme’, at Boston University in Boston, MA, USA.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers the final in a series of four lectures, entitled ‘Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita’,⁴ in Vanderbilt Hall at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy is asked a significant question about how to concentrate on the Guru. His answer covers divine love, divine concern, and divine joy or delight.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a midday lecture, entitled Spirituality and Satisfaction’, at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a 7:30 p.m. lecture, entitled ‘Beauty’, at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada.

 

1980

Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Nicolas Katapodis of Greece at a special function at the United Nations in New York, sponsored by Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations, in celebration of Greece’s Independence Day.

 

1984

Sri Chinmoy offers his first Peace Concert (1) — ‘Peace: God's Beauty in His Oneness-Home’ — to an audience of over 8,000 for 3 hours at the Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany. Watch the full-length video of the concert... Listen to the CD recording of the concert...

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy visits the Olympic Stadium in West Berlin, Germany, where Jesse Owens won four gold medals. In a deeply symbolic gesture in honour of his athletic hero, Sri Chinmoy meditates in the reviewing stand from which Hitler had watched the Games in 1936.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (27) at Kongresszentrum CCH in Hamburg, Germany.

 

1996

At the request of race director Umberto Silvestri, Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Rome City Marathon in Italy. The race has 16,000 participants, including 340 of Sri Chinmoy’s students.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, in Rome, Italy.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 25TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Vedanta Philosophy’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Bliss’, at Guelph University in Guelph, ON, Canada.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of appreciation from U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘You and I’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to the great prophet Mohammed — founder of the world religion, Islam — at the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at the Ethical Culture Society of New York, NY, USA.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for the marathon in a time of 3:55:07 (8:58 pace) at the Heart-Watchers Marathon in Toledo, OH, USA. The temperature at the start of the race is 24°F. This is Sri Chinmoy’s second marathon, having run his first-ever marathon just 22 days earlier. 

 

1979
Toledo Mayor Douglas Degood declares 25 March 1979 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy gives an introductory talk, entitled ‘My Name is not Sri Chinmoy. My Name is Gratitude’, at a meeting with the parents of his German disciples in Cologne, Germany. At the end of the meeting, Sri Chinmoy answers questions from some of the parents.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (28) at Gut Buschhof in Bonn-Königswinter, Germany.

 

1991

Sri Chinmoy meets with Polish President Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1983), and presents him with three songs he had composed in honour of Poland and the President.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Wales Award.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 actors from the off-Broadway hit ‘The Exonerated’ Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 actors from the off-Broadway hit ‘The Exonerated’ including Brooke Shields, Jill Clayburgh, Marisa Tomei, Robert Vaughn and Montel Williams after the play’s 200th performance at Bleeker Street Theatre in Manhattan, New York., NY, USA.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Invitational Marathon to be run in New York by his students who have run faster than 3:55:07 within the last 10 years.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7 horses individually, then 3 at once, at DND Horse Stables in Forest Park, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 26TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Myself’, at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled ‘Service’, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada.

 

1979
The Cape Cod Times carries a photo and an article about Sri Chinmoy running his second marathon of the year — the ‘Heartwatchers’ run in Toledo, Ohio.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Compassion’, at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (29) at the Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘C.K.G. the Artist’.

 

1999
Scotland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Switzerland Award.

 

2006

Sri Chinmoy lifts Nikolai Valuev of Russia, WBA Heavyweight World Boxing Champion, at Palais des Congres in Paris, France. Read article...

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the birthday of Ambassador Chowdhury’s wife Marium at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

MARCH 27TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy is invited to deliver a talk, entitled ‘Joy Unlimited’, at a luncheon held by the Lions Club of the Bronx, at the Westchester-Bronx, NY Branch of the YMCA, New York, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Seekers’, at the University of Windsor in Windsor, ON, Canada.

 

1979

Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations H.E. Dr. Rikhi Jaipal presents one of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings to Assistant UN Secretary-General Dr. Estefania Aldaba-Lim, Special Representative for the International Year of the Child, at the UN Church Centre in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy leads 127 meditations after reaching a record body weight of 127 lbs., in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Vision-Dawn’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (30) at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (98) at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, NY, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (178) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Obedience’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (333) at Louis Pasteur Junior High School 67 in Little Neck, NY, USA.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a 4-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2000
The city of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Svenn Kristiansen, Deputy Mayor of Oslo, at the United Nations in New York.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, in which he plays 40 instruments to honour Svenn Kristiansen for having run 40 marathons, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 teachers and students at St. Albans, NY, USA.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts Enoch Effah, world champion of French boxing, at the Palais des Congres in Paris, France.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 ambassadors and 16 other people at UNESCO in Paris, France.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, ‘Mother Bengal’s Culture-Flood’, dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 28TH

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration, Meditation and Contemplation’, in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire-Man, Aspiration-Man, Dream-Man, Reality-Man’, at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON, Canada.

 

1975
In honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 11th year in the West, a new American flag is flown over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Senator Lowell Weicker Jr. of Connecticut later presented the flag to Sri Chinmoy.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj on ‘This Morning Show’, Channel 3 TV, broadcast from Hartford, CT, USA.

 

1977
Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, hosts a banquet for women delegates to the United Nations in honour of International Women’s Day, attracting diplomats from countries as diverse as Egypt, Honduras and Costa Rica. The event is sponsored by the Meditation Group at the UN led by Sri Chinmoy.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Silence’, at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (99) at James J. Reynolds Junior High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (301) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy completes one million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in 5½ days for a total of seven million ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (490) at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy meets with Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, at the UNESCO office in Paris, France

 

2006

Sri Chinmoy offers a World Harmony Concert, sponsored by the Canadian Ambassador to UNESCO, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Before the programme, Sri Chinmoy lifts UNESCO Ambassadors from eight countries, including China, Japan and Ukraine, as well as other diplomats and luminaries. Also, a selection of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks is exhibited in the building.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Einar Steensnaes, Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO, at the UNESCO office in Paris, France

 

MARCH 29TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Desire and Aspiration’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy completes 16 lectures in Canada – later published in My Maple Tree – with a talk, entitled ‘Yoga and Faith’, at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and esraj concert at the State University of New York in New Paltz, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 2 miles in a time of 13:42 (6:51 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Westport, CT, USA.

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert (31) to an audience of 2,000 people at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (32) to an audience of 2,400 people at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour public meditation at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (100) with a piano performance at Rippowam High School in Stamford, CT, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (491) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.

 

2000
The Taj Mahal and Vrindavan are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossoms.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy reads his poetry at a programme with Pulitzer Prize Authors at the United Nations in New York.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Sugata Bose PhD, grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Yoko Ono, artist and musician, wife of John Lennon, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

 

MARCH 30TH

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Watch, I Pray’, at Long Island University in Greenvale, NY, USA.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy runs personal bests for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 miles – his 3-mile split time is 21:31 (7:10/mile pace); 4-mile split time is 29:04 (7:16/mile pace); 5-mile split time is 36:39 (7:20/mile pace); 6-mile split time is 44:09 (7:21/mile pace); and 7-mile time is 51:18 (7:20/mile pace – at the Sri Chinmoy 7-mile Race in Fairfield, CT, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (33) at the Stadthalle in Freiburg, Germany.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (265) at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy receives the Award of Excellence from the UN Society of Writers (the society’s highest award) for the completion of his 900th book, Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, which he had dedicated to President Gorbachev. Sri Chinmoy then reads two of his poems — his very first poem in English, ‘The Golden Flute’ written c. 1952-53, and a poem he had written just a few hours prior to the award ceremony held at the United Nations in New York. Sri Chinmoy concludes with a note of gratitude to his hosts and a short talk, entitled ‘American Freedom in My Poetry’.

 

 

MARCH 31ST

 

1975
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at a gallery at 154 Wooster Street in Soho, New York, NY, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy opens an evening concert of classical Indian music with two Bengali songs and a short meditation at the United Nations in New York. The programme, which is sponsored by the United Nations Meditation Group as a fund-raising effort for UNICEF, includes recitals by classical singer Jyoti Pandit and sarod player Vasant Rai.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a morning Peace Concert (34) at Küchlin Theatre in Basel, Switzerland.

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (35) at Hallenstadion to an audience of 5,500 in Zurich, Switzerland. View the video...

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (66) at New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Schloss Wilhelminenberg in Vienna, Austria.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy lifts Arno A. Penzias, 1978 Nobel Laureate for Physics, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (585) at the Sun Dome Stadium, University of South Florida, in Tampa, FL, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Kuwait Award.

 

2001
England is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.