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DECEMBER 1ST

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Attachment and Detachment’, at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a tribute programme for Eleanor Roosevelt, with guest speaker the grandson Curtis Roosevelt, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (140) at the Sports and Entertainment Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy lifts a dumbbell of 73.5 kg (162 lb.), more than his own bodyweight of 70.5 kg (155.4 lb.), using only one arm, for the first time ever on television, in Melbourne, Australia. (The video of the lift was pre-recorded on 29 November, by the TV station following an interview on Good Morning Melbourne, but broadcast on The Today Show, on 1 December.)

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Karel Kovanda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (398) and his New Year’s Message for the year 1995 at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York, NY, USA.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (445) — the 45th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (549) and his New Year’s Message for the year 1999, at Norman Thomas High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (604) at the Thai Ayutthaya Business Administration College in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy completes his 14,000,000th Soul-Bird drawing in Taupo, New Zealand.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 200 Perendale and Perendale-Suffolk Cross lambs (101-300) on his second day of lifting at Waitomo Farm in Taupo, New Zealand. Lifting four or six lambs at a time, the total weight is 13,405 lb. In addition, Sri Chinmoy also lifts three of the sheep-farm owners.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 40 people with lifts of over 500 lb. each, at Resort Intime in Sanya, China.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts 35 people at Pangkor Island Beach Resort, on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

 

DECEMBER 2ND

 

1970
The Irish Independent newspaper reports on Sri Chinmoy‘s visit, on December 1st, to Dublin, Ireland.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Divine Duty and Supreme Reward’, and answers audience questions at the University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Western Dynamism and Eastern Spirituality’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.

 

1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Ottawa City Hall in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy attends the Sri Chinmoy 3½ Mile Run for women in Prospect Park, New York, NY, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy runs the Jersey Shore Marathon in a time of 4:33:55 — at an average pace of 10:27 per mile — in Asbury Park, NJ, USA. The race is Sri Chinmoy’s 7th marathon completed in the first nine months of taking up the sport.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the US Congress at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital (25) at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (140) at the Sports and Entertainment Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meets with his good friend Father Tom at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (526) and his New Year’s Message for the year 1998, at Washington Irving High Schoolin New York, NY, USA.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Mikhail Gorbachev and his daughter Irina Virganskaya for 55 minutes at the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including Titus Kinimaka, world-class big wave surfer, at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

 

DECEMBER 3RD

 

1970

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance-Night and Aspiration-Light’, at Conway Hall in London, UK. It was the final lecture in Sri Chinmoy’s first European Lecture Tour.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Crown of India’s Soul’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. This is followed by a public meditation attended by more than 500 seekers.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy paints two large Jharna-Kala artworks, each measuring approximately 5 by 8 feet, in 13 minutes — one in 6 minutes and the other in 7 minutes — on the front porch of his home in Jamaica, New York, USA. He then entrusts them to Annam Brahma for safekeeping. Over the years, they have been exhibited in various galleries. The paintings continue to be on permanent display at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Whole Man’, and receives an award from the Lake Placid School of Art, and a citation from the National Fine Arts Committee, Winter Olympic Games, at the Lake Placid School of Art in Lake Placid, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala exhibition has been on display from 17 November to 3 December at the venue during the XIII Olympic Winter Games.

 

1983

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Jorge Illueca, President of the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister and Vice-President of Panama (1983), in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (48) at the War Memorial Theater in Trenton, NJ, USA.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (164) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (446) — the 46th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations —at Perfection-Surprise in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

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

 

2002

Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 100 three-month-old Romney Cross lambs (301-400) on his third day of lifting at Waitere farm near Whakamaru, New Zealand. In addition, Sri Chinmoy also lifts two of the sheep-farm owners for a total weight of 9,048 lb.

 

DECEMBER 4TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy delivers his first lecture at an American university, entitled ‘God’s Dream-Boat and Man’s Life-Boat’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy recites 50 poems from his Ten Thousand Flower-Flames poetry series from memory, one poem from each of the first 50 volumes, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy performs his heaviest weightlifting workout of 475,600 lb. in Jamaica, NY, USA. His calf-raise lift of 2,000 lbs. is certified as a world record by the World Powerlifting Congress.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy drew over 21,000 Soul-Birds in 24 hours in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 8 people including Rekha Sharma, India’s first woman to climb India’s highest peak, Nanda Devi, at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kauai, HI, USA.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers spiritual meanings for the words submitted by his disciples in Kauai, Hawaii, USA. They are subsequently published in his book, The Heart-Tears of a God-Seeker.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 200 three-month-old Suffolk-Romney Cross lambs (401-600) on his fourth day of lifting at Tuaropaki Trust Farm, near Mokai, New Zealand — for a total weight of 18,381 lb.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at Resort Intime in Sanya, China.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kali Amman Temple on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers the ‘Lifting Up The World’ medallion (not lifted) to Count Hubertus Faber-Castell, painter and humanitarian, scion of the world-famous Faber-Castell company; and to Yusuf Mecek, Mayor of Belek, at Gloria Verde Resort in Belek, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 5TH

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy receives the Artist of the Year Award from the Sunstorm Gallery in Hicksville, NY, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in 5:12:00 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (49) at the Bushnell Memorial Hall in Hartford, CT, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy performs on 107 instruments during a nine-hour and nineteen-minute concert (including breaks) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (575) at Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 students and teachers at the Na Kamalei School in Kauai, HI, USA.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy continues his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 254 three-month-old pure Romney lambs (601-854) on his fifth day of lifting at Kiwitahi Land Co. Farm, Taupo, New Zealand — for a total weight of 19,640 lb.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Professor Dr. Haryono Suyono, Chairman of the Indonesian Self-Reliance Community Foundation at the Lor In Hotel in Solo, Java, Indonesia.

 

 

DECEMBER 6TH

 

1966
Sri Chinmoy is invited for the first time to participate in an interfaith forum, the Fall Semester Lecture Program, held at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center, Long Island, NY. The program features guest speakers from various faiths and traditions. Sri Chinmoy is extremely honoured to be the representative of Hinduism, as his name had been put forward by India’s Consul General in New York, S. K. Roy. The lecture Sri Chinmoy delivers is entitled, ‘Hinduism: The journey of India's soul’.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy performs an esraj concert at the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (255) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (285) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a special programme entitled ‘Performances Unprecedented and Unhorizoned’ in which he paints 7 large Jharna-Kala paintings, and then performs on seven instruments, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (384) in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York. The address is given by C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (447) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy composes his 9,000th Bengali song Tomare Tushite Tomar Lagiya in Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

2002

Sri Chinmoy completes his project to lift 1,000 lambs by lifting 146 three-month-old pure Romney lambs (855-1,000) on his sixth day of lifting at Kiwitahi Land Co. Farm, Taupo, New Zealand — for a total weight of 12,072 lb. The grand total weight for 1,000 lambs was 81,259 lb. (36,936 kg).

 

2005
An exhibition of 78 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks in honour of Sri Aurobindo’s 78 years on earth — begun on 26 November and completed on 5 December (the anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi) — is displayed at Pangkor Island Beach Resort on Pangkor Island, Malaysia.

 

DECEMBER 7TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special luncheon for nineteen of his male students and their mothers at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. During the reception, he gives a short talk to the mothers and invites them to ask questions.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for lawyers and judges at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (209) at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre to an audience of 5,000 at Canada Place, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (448) — the 48th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Pilgrim-Dream-Blossoms (morning) in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (449) — the 49th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — and New Year’s Message for the year 1996, at St. Paul the Apostle Church (evening) in New York, NY, USA. Read more...

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (475) and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1997, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy and his students take a boat ride in Nassau, The Bahamas.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (527) at the Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, The Bahamas, at which he has a reunion with a special friend, H.E. Davidson Hepburn, former Ambassador of The Bahamas to the UN.

 

1998

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (551) and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii (afternoon) in Honolulu, HI, USA. He also receives the Dreamer of a Peace-Filled World Award on Pearl Harbor Day. Watch the concert video...

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (552) at the Ala Wai Golf Course Club House (evening) in Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (605) at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including Colin ‘Pine Tree’ Meads, NZRFU’s ‘Player of the Century’ and widely regarded as the greatest rugby union player ever, at the Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand. His wife, Verna Meads, is also lifted.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy receives a visit from His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta at the Lor-in Hotel in Solo, Java, Indonesia. The eighty-one-year-old monarch meets with Sri Chinmoy for the first time. Read more...

 

DECEMBER 8TH

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Brahman of the Upanishads’, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy takes photographs of his early Jharna-Kala drawings with an adjustable overhead camera, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (50) at the United Nations General Assembly Lobby in New York.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy visits Albany’s Mayor the Hon. Thomas M. Whalen III, for the dedication of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile on the occasion of the state capital’s Tricentennial, in Albany, New York, NY, USA

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (165) and an organ recital (43) at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (450) — the final in a series of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — with welcoming remarks by Ms. Alina Bloomgarden, Director of Visitor Services at Lincoln Center, and introduction by Mr. James Irsay, announcer for WQXR Classical Radio Station of the New York Times — in the Kaplan Penthouse at the Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA.

 

DECEMBER 9TH

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy composes three songs about Australia: ‘A Fountain-Heart, a Mountain-Soul’, ‘Australia, Your Heart for God’ and ‘O Fauna, O Flora of Australia’.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy writes, publishes and recites from memory a handwritten aphorism book My Heart’s Thirty-One Sacred Secrets in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy’s 600th book — a handwritten book of 47 poems, entitled I Pray So That — is published in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1985 at his annual New Year’s meditation, during which he meditates with Sudhahota Carl Lewis and Narada Michael Walden on stage, at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (286) and a New Year’s meditation, along with a Jharna-Kala exhibit, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (319) and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1993 at his annual New Year’s Meditation, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (385) and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1994 at his annual New Year’s Meditation, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York, NY, USA.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy runs and walks through snowy, sub-zero conditions in the Runners are Smilers two-mile race at Goose Pond Park in Jamaica New York, USA. His finishing time is 24 minutes, 25.57 seconds.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 10TH

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for one hour – 9:30-10:30 a.m. – by Mr. Jim Knight and Mr. George Riddell on radio station WHOA in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Gayatri Mantra’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy completes 1,000 Jharna-Kala paintings in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy requests that his disciples ask him amusing questions, during an informal gathering in his Jharna-Kala Gallery, in New York, NY, USA. The questions and answers are subsequently published in his book Smile of the Beyond.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 5:26:42 in the West for 30 miles in the Jamaica environs, NY, USA. Beginning at 12 midnight, his marathon split time was 4:32:41.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy presents Salim A. Salim, President of the 34th UN General Assembly, with the Human Rights Award at the United Nations in New York.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1984 at his annual New Year’s Meditation, at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy completes his first 10,000 poems published in his poetry series, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (210) and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1990 at his annual New Year’s Meditation, at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the new meditation meeting hall he named ‘Perfection-Surprise’ in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Gupta, Indian Ambassador to Thailand, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Orville Turnquest, Governor-General of the Bahamas, at the Governor’s House in Nassau, Bahamas.

 

1997
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy composes his 14,000th song overall (Bengali and English total) Thambona Go at the Nassau Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 cows, a total of 24,516 lb. at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy watches the morning 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in Solo, Indonesia. Before the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a special race prayer.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Solo at Surakarta Palace in Solo, Java, Indonesia. There, Sri Chinmoy lifts the King as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ award. His Majesty also honours Sri Chinmoy, by bestowing upon him the title of ‘Prince of the Royal Family’. Read more...

 

DECEMBER 11TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Man and His Goal’, at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, NY, USA.

 

1977

Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Norb Sanders, winner of the 1974 New York City Marathon and pioneer of sports medicine in America, at the Sri Chinmoy Ten Mile Run, held in honour of UNICEF’s 31st anniversary, in New Canaan, CT, USA. Dr. Sanders places first in a field of nearly 300 runners from the New York metropolitan area, and is presented with the UNICEF Cup by Sri Chinmoy.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers his New Year’s message for 1987 at his 15th annual New Year’s Meditation, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

2002

Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people, including John C. (Jack) Foster, Olympian who held the world record for the master's marathon of 2:20 for 19 years; and Graham Hall, Mayor of Rotorua District Council, at the Rotorua Convention Centre in Rotorua, New Zealand.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Tuanku Ja’afar Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, former King of Malaysia; and his wife, Tuanku Najihah Tuanku Besar Burhanuddin, Sultana of Negeri Sembilan, at the Palace of Negeri Sembilan in Seremban, Malaysia.

 

DECEMBER 12TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘My Elevator’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre Church in Bayside, New York, NY, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy receives the First Award Certificate of Merit from North American Mentor Poetry Magazine, for his Jharna-Kala painting being chosen for the magazine cover.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, NY, USA.

 

1982
A ‘Beyond Within’ column begins in the New York Voice newspaper, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers his New Year’s message for 1983 at his New Year’s Meditation, at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy cooks 13 dishes for disciples to celebrate his 155-lb. ‘Body, Heart and Soul One-Arm Press’ (November 18, 1985) at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (256) and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1991 at his New Year’s Meditation, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy is acknowledged with a short biography of his life and achievements in the upcoming 1992 edition of ‘Who’s Who Of World Religions’.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Constantin Spiteri, Director of Culture in the Ministry of Education for Malta, at Malta International Airport in Valletta, Malta.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 33 people at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

DECEMBER 13TH

 

1986
A parade is held for Sri Chinmoy’s 2,039-lb. one-arm lift (November 27, 1986) in New York, NY, USA. Afterwards, he is presented with a dumbbell composed of 2,039 flowers.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (142) at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy has an hour-long meeting with Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun — the owner of the Pinnacle Quality Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand — who established an orphanage, which currently houses 1,700 children.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Manmohan Adhikari, Prime Minister of Nepal, at Singha Darbar, Government Seat, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 cows, weighing a total of 43,804 lb., at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 people, including students and teachers from Sawahan 1 Elementary School at the Puri, Kercono Ballroom in Solo, Java, Indonesia.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy uses a traditional Chinese brush and black ink to create his new Soul-Bird artworks in Xiamen, China.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Xiamen Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.

 

DECEMBER 14TH

 

1977

Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Oneness-Earth’ programme, attended by Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Oneness-Earth’ programme, attended by ambassadors, religious leaders and UN officials at the United Nations in New York. Televised excerpts are broadcast nationwide by CBS-TV on Christmas Day. The song ‘Oneness-Earth’, composed by Sri Chinmoy the previous day, is sung at the event.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy participates in a 48-hour, non-stop relay called the Queens Culture Run, which began on the evening of 14 December in his honour. He runs the initial 13 miles plus several other segments, including the final mile. The run ends with a public meditation in Queens on 16 December.

 

1981
A 50th birthday tribute for Sri Chinmoy was read into the Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy composes 20 poems on ‘Confidence’, which are later published in his book, Two divine qualities: Confidence and Sincerity.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dan Lurie, famous weightlifter, a three-time winner of Mr. America’s ‘Most Muscular Man’, 1942-1944, and publisher of Muscle Training Illustrated, at Dan Lurie Barbells Company in Springfield Gardens, Long Island, NY, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers his heartfelt remarks at a ceremony honouring orphanage founder Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun at the Pinnacle Quality Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Orphaned at an eerily age himself, Sri Chinmoy also addresses the many children who have attended.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Bhadra Ranchod, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Parliament of South Africa, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy sketches large Soul-Bird drawings that are hung on a hotel window in Panajachel on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Datuk Samy Vellu, a senior member of the Malaysian Cabinet and Minister of Works, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Joaquim Cruz, 1984 800-metre Olympic gold medallist; Clayton Stent, Mayor, Taupo District; and Anna Tyler, World Duathlon gold medallist, and World Triathlon Championship silver medallist, at Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts Omer Bilgin, member of Turkish Parliament for over 20 years and Minister of Tourism for Turkey for 10 years, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Antalya Culture Centre in Antalya, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 15TH

 

1972
An historic photograph of Sri Chinmoy in the high meditative state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi is taken at the Sri Chinmoy Centre Church in Bayside, New York, NY, USA. The picture is later used on the poster for Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Meditation, held at Hunter College, New York, on 29 December.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1979, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also set the message to music and the song is performed that evening.

 

1979
>Sri Chinmoy produces a handwritten poetry book Four Hundred Gratitude-Flower-Hearts, his 400th published book, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy offers his annual New Year’s meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for the year 1982, at the High School of Art and Design in New York, NY, USA. Also, a special song he had composed the previous day from the words of the message is performed by his students.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Never Say No’ in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including media representatives at the YMCA in Hong Kong.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Guido de Marco, Deputy Foreign Minister of Malta, at the Hilton Hotel in St. Julian’s Bay, Malta.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (320) at the Bangkok Bank building in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy completes his 6,000th Bengali song Gorokshanath Gorokshanath Shakti Tuphan at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

2000
The Union of Myanmar is officially dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Maj. Gen. Saw Lwin. Sri Chinmoy is guest of honour at the inauguration ceremony held at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy meets with Joaquim Cruz, the 1984 Olympic gold medallist in 800 metres, whom he had lifted the previous day at Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand. The Brazillian track star offers gifts of gratitude to Sri Chinmoy who had just presented him with a framed photo of the lift.

 

 

DECEMBER 16TH

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Queens, NY, USA, following the conclusion of a 48-hour, non-stop relay called the Queens Culture Run, which began on the evening of 14 December in his honour.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy offers his annual New Year’s Meditation at 7:30 p.m. and recites his New Year’s Message for 1980 at McMillin Theater, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. He also performs the New Year’s Message song that he set to music the day before. After the evening presentation, Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahavishnu John McLaughlin.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert 51) at Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Placido D’Souza, High Commissioner of India to Hong Kong, at the YMCA in Hong Kong. Sri Chinmoy is also interviewed by Nick Bailey, a reporter from Hong Kong Today.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mounir Fahmy and Samir Farid, former Egyptian Air Force Generals, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy practises with a 27-lb. shot put at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (386) and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA. He also receives the Matsunaga Institute for Peace Award from the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy sends a letter of congratulations and encouragement to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan just prior to the commencement of his first term of office.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (576) at Teatro Joao Caetano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy meets with General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, at the Guest House of the Ministry of Defence in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy individually lifts 30 cows, weighing a total of 22,127 lbs., at Packwood Jersey Farm in Taupo, New Zealand. The lifting session completes his 3-day project of lifting 100 cows, for an overall total of 90,447 lbs. 

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy gives three Christmas trip talks to his students — Intensity in meditation, Channel swimmers, do speedwork! and Vision of an Avatar — in Xiamen, China.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy gives three Christmas trip talks to his students — If you throw your heart and soul into a project, When I give a special message and Obedience has sweetness in it — in Kuantan, Malaysia.

 

 

DECEMBER 17TH

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s Meditation and delivers his 1972 New Yea’s Message for the public at Columbia University, New York City. It is attended by over 800 seekers. Sri Chinmoy and Jamaica area disciples travel there on the maiden trip of the new Centre bus ‘Alo Bani’.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What is the Spiritual Life?’, at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy’s 300th book Aspiration-Tree is published. It is the first hard-bound book produced by the Sri Chinmoy Centre Press in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, and presents him with 300 of his published books for the NYC Public Library, which the mayor receives at City Hall in New York, NY, USA.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura. During this fourth visit to the monument, he is invited to a special Japanese tea ceremony and banquet inside the Kōtoku-in Temple, at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (387) at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

1994
>Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (399) at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, attended by special guests Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal; B. B. Karki, Speaker of the Nepal Upper House; R. C. Poudel, Speaker of the Nepal House of Representatives; H.E. Bimal Prasad, Ambassador of India to Nepal; and P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (606) with the guest of honour General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (607) at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ recital at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, New Zealand.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy composes a song for the children of China, entitled ‘I am a Great Chinese Boy, I am a Good Chinese Girl’, while in Xiamen, China. During his visit to China, Sri Chinmoy composes 419 new songs in Bengali and English.

 

DECEMBER 18TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy receives the Bronze Medal of New York City from Paul O’Dwyer, President of the NYC Council City Hall, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Self-Offering’ at a meeting with his New York Centre after reading out his New Year’s Message for 1976.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1977 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. In comjunction with the event, a large number of Sri Chinmoy ’s Jharna-Kala paintings are on display, including the stage backdrop for the occasion, the 12-by-27-foot canvas ‘Larger than the Largest’.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1978 at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Earlier, he cooks 1,000 Indian sweets, which he gives out as prasad ‘blessed food’ on the evening.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy composes a song for Mexico. He later dedicates the song to José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at their meeting on 22 December 1981.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (52) at the Kamakura City Public Hall in Kamakura, Japan.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy meets with Toshihiko Seko, Japanese marathon champion, at Hotel Sunroute in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (88) attended by the mother and sister of Paul Ricardo Alfonsin, President of Argentina, at the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers the first twenty-four prayers to individual Japanese students of his, during a Christmas trip visit to Japan. The prayers are later published in Part 1 of his book My Sweet Father-Lord, Where Are You?

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 43 people, including several Thai professors, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (166) at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Jehan Sadat, widow of President Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt (1970-1981), at the Sadat residence in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Church, the 117th successor to Saint Mark, at the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre event in a time of 15.59 seconds, at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet, held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

1995
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Central City Library in Brisbane, Australia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 56 people, including Ann Hare, Olympic middle-distance runner; Toni Jeffs, Olympic freestyle swimmer, 2002 world masters record in 50-metre freestyle; and Tim Prendergast, 2002 gold medallist and world record holder 800m in the IPC Championships for the Visually Impaired, at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and receives the City Award from Guo Zhenjia, Vice Mayor of Xiamen, at the Botanical Gardens in Xiamen, China. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy presents a delegation from the Red Cross with a large supply of blankets, school supplies and toys from his humanitarian organisation, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles. He then offers special comments about the Red Cross.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 members of the Mongolian National Circus at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 19TH

 

1965
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled, ‘Three Secrets: Reincarnation, Evolution and Transformation’ – later published in two parts as Two Secrets: Reincarnation and Evolution and Evolution – to a group of spiritual aspirants at the residence of Mrs. Ida Patterson in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s Meditation and delivers his New Year’s Message for 1976 at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA. Afterwards, at an informal gathering, Sri Chinmoy offers his remarks about ‘Fulfilling a New Year's Resolution’.

 

1977
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, attended by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., opens at the UN Secretariat Lobby in New York, NY, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (22) at Hotel Meliá in Torremolinos, Spain.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (53) at the Science Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including The Venerable Pratamkunaporn, Abbot of the Wat Po Temple, at Wat Po Temple in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Ronnie Weerakoon, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Egypt, at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert 257) at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse in Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Valentina Matvienko, Ambassador of Russia to Malta, at the Russian Embassy in Valletta, Malta.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with and lifts Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at the Hindu Monastery in Kauai, HI, USA.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (476)at the Kyoto Terrsa Hall in Kyoto, Japan, attended by Bishop Dwight R. Nakamura, Abbot of Daijuji Temple.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers race in Singapore. Due to a persistent, painful knee injury, he walks just one mile in a time of 21:09.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy and his students take a boat ride on the ‘Casablanca Rio’, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Li Ming Zhu, including Li Ming Zhu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Red Cross Foundation. He also receives a gift from Guo Zhen Jia, Xiamen Vice Mayor, at the Huaqiao Hotel in Xiamen, China.
 

 

DECEMBER 20TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets music to 99 English poems from Transcendence-Perfection in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura on his second visit (the first being on 23 October 1969) at the Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Vinay Verma, Ambassador of India to Thailand, Permanent Representative of India to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for Asia and the Pacific, son of Sri Chinmoy’s English teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (211) at the Cairo Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy trains with over-sized shot puts at a beachside park in Hawaii. The shot puts range in size from 6 to 50 lbs.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, Malta.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (287) dedicated to President Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, where he receives the Gold Medallion for International Service to Peace, from Constantin Spiteri, Head of Culture, Ministry of Education.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of Russia to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

1995

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Bishopscourt official residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and (528) Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Hotel Barceló Del Lago in Panajachel, Guatemala.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Later, at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Sri Chinmoy meditates with a young Buddhist monk Sopheap, and then the two speak about their experiences at a war museum, as well as other subjects.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Xiamen Middle School Number 5 in Xiamen, China, where he meets with Mr. Xu, Minister of Education for Xiamen. 1,000 school children sing Sri Chinmoy’s composition ‘I Am A Great Chinese Boy, I Am A Good Chinese Girl’.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Thirty–Two Years I Lived in India’.

 

 

DECEMBER 21ST

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’, at the Aum Centre Inc., 659 Miramar Avenue, in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy offers his New Year’s Message for 1974 with an evening programme of meditation and music at Hunter College in New York City, NY, USA, to an audience of 1,500 people. Read more…

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary marathon coach Kiyoshi Nakamura at Jingu Gaien Park in Tokyo, Japan. Read more…

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy meets with Enrique Tierno Galvan, Mayor of Madrid, at the Mayor’s offices in Madrid, Spain.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Aye Aye Myint-U, daughter of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, and her family, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (288) at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.H. Malietoa Tanumafili II, Head of State of Western Samoa, at the Head of State residence in Apia, Western Samoa.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for Samoan Television in Apia, Western Samoa. Read more...

 

1994
Langtang II mountain in the Himalayas is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Mountain at an inauguration ceremony in Nagarkot, Nepal.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (577) at the Sheraton Rio Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the 5th of 13 concerts dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 people at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 22ND

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at San Cristobal Fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Australia, Do Have My Indian Heart!’.

 

1981

Sri Chinmoy meets with José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Residence in Los Pinos in Mexico City, Mexico.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy meets with Rafael Antonio Caldera, former President of Venezuela, at President Caldera’s office in Caracas, Venezuela.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (143) and organ recital (26) at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

 

1990
At a morning shot put session, at a beachside park in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sri Chinmoy displays the ten shot puts — with weights of 6, 8, 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, 35, 40 and 50 lbs. — with which he has been practising.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with former Senator Hiram Fong at the Senator Fong Plantation and Gardens in Kaneohe, Oahu, HI, USA.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (388) at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 700,000 Soul-Birds drawings at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (400) at the Royal Nepal Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, (477) attended by Reverend Mitsuo Sato, Head Priest of Kotoku-in Temple, at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy meets with Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio at the Office of the Archbishop, at Cathedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (553) at Orchard Parade Hotel in Singapore.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and Bun Rany Hun Sen, First Lady of Cambodia, preceded by a 30-minute private meeting and followed by a live televised ceremony sent to 126 countries, at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a symbolic gesture, the Prime Minister also holds the Peace Torch.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 people, including Lydia Bradley, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; and Guy Cotter, two-time Mt. Everest climber, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people and is named an Honorary Fellow of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta (Solo), at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy tells ten stories to his students while on a Christmas trip in Qingdao, China.

 

DECEMBER 23RD

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy plays one of his own compositions on the piano at a classical music recital, held at the Unitarian Church in White Plains, New York, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘I Shall Not Accept Defeat’, during a Christmas Trip in Miami, FL, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (89) at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago, Chile.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Chira Pongdaiboon, Lord Mayor of Hua Hin, at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Alexandria, Egypt.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Censu Tabone, President of Malta, and Mrs. Tabone, followed by Sri Chinmoy offering a Peace Concert (289) for invited guests, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, Malta.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Edward Fenech-Adami, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Valletta, Malta.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mai Ling, Viet Nam’s top female sprinter, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation to commemorate the anniversary of his beloved dog Kanu's passing, held on the back lawn of the Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Western Samoa, during a torrential downpour. Also, the same day, Sri Chinmoy draws a special Soul-Bird artwork for Kanu, which takes him 5 hours and 15 minutes to complete.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre, 200-metre and 2-mile races at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Greenpoint Stadium, Cape Town, in South Africa.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy meets with Uma Meshtri, great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (451) at City Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Virak Prom, Director of International Affairs, Cambodian National Assembly; and Sry Tamarang, International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

DECEMBER 24TH

 

1974
The day before Christmas, Sri Chinmoy writes twenty-two poems in honour of Jesus Christ. The poems are later published in his book, Brother Jesus.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy holds a special Christmas Eve function at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Flushing, Queens, NT, USA.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy composes twenty songs, setting music to the words of the Christ.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy continues to practice with oversized shot puts each morning at a beachside park in Honolulu, HW, USA.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with R. Dayakar, Consul General of India in Vietnam, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with P. L. Singh, Mayor of Kathmandu, at the Bluestar Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy completes 8,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings at Viva Clarion Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (608) at the National Theatre in Mandalay, Myanmar.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy comments on a painting of Jesus Christ displayed in the function room of the Inter-Continental Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Christmas Eve.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert for His Majesty King Paduka Paku Alam of Yogyakarta at Keraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Faouzi Skali, founder of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music 2001, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.

 

DECEMBER 25TH

 

 

1964
Sri Chinmoy spends his first Christmas Day in America at the apartment of his friends Sam Spanier and Eric Hughes in Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy holds a Christmas celebration at the United Methodist Church of Port Washington in Port Washington, NY, USA, where 200 of his published books are displayed.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas night at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Caguas, Puerto Rico, about twenty miles inland from the capital San Juan.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy composes 13 songs dedicated to the Christ at Hotel Melia in Torremolinos, Spain.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including Luang Por Eed, Abbot of Wat Khao Takiab, in Wat Khao Takiab, Hua Hin, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy meets with Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, at the Ministry of Culture in Cairo, Egypt.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (321) at the French Cultural Exchange Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas Day and gives a talk, entitled ‘Preserve Silence, Silence, Silence’, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also reads stories about the Christ and Confucius related to the theme of ‘silence’.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, attended by Regional Governor Hasyim Afandi, at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

DECEMBER 26TH

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (23) at the Ateneo de Madrid, Salon de Actos, in Madrid, Spain.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy gave interviews on Sri Lanka National TV and meets with Bradman Weerakoon, President’s Advisor on International Relations, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 21,466 Soul-Bird drawings in one day — bringing his all-time total to 769,729 — at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa. His previous highest total was 21,220, which he had achieved just six days earlier (20 December).

 

1995

Sri Chinmoy visits Robben Island in South Africa, where he meditates and offers a soulful prayer in the prison cell President Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years. See video...

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy makes a soulful pilgrimage to Renko-ji Temple in Suginami-ku Ward, Tokyo, Japan, where the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, India’s freedom fighter, are kept.

 

1996
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (529) at the Catedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Sopheap, Chief Monk of Ponna-Kkettaram Pagoda at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts The Most Venerable Tep Vong, Supreme Patriarch of Maha Nikaya Order of Buddhist Monks. Receives the Light of Lord Buddha Award from the Supreme Patriarch Udnalorm Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Christ’s College Chapel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a private organ recital at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Jon Hellerman, world-renowned triathlete coach; and Dr. Roddy Kirkwood, climber of Mt. Everest, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 52 people from the Gadja Mada University Marching Band at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts HRH Daulat Tuanku, Sultan of Pahang State, King of Malaysia, 1979-1984, and Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom at the VIP State House in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.

 

DECEMBER 27TH

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy gives a television interview on WKAQ, Channel 2, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Year’s meditation and message for 1975, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy directs three disciple singing groups to learn and perform fifty short Bengali songs he had composed during the months of October or November 1977. The songs are later published in Journey's Goal, part 10a.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy composes ‘E Jibane Jadi’ at Utano Youth Hostel in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Teatro De La Cantv in Caracas, Venezuela.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (54) at the Oita Ken Seishonen Kaikan in Beppu, Japan.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (144) at Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Royal Garden Village in Hua Hin, Thailand.

 

1991
The world’s fastest passenger ferryboat — the San Frangisk, which can travel up to 40 knots an hour, and normally plies between Malta and Sicily — is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Ship.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy receives a message on behalf of all members of the Maltese Parliament, declaring Sri Chinmoy as an ‘International Emissary of Peace’ and ‘Ambassador of Peace for Malta’, presented by the Speaker of the House, Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, at the Peace Run Opening Ceremony in Valletta, Malta.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy launches a Peace Run at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City's Thong Nhat Stadium. Thirty local Vietnamese runners join the core team of Peace Runners in two laps around the stadium carrying the flaming Peace Torch just before the start of a major soccer match.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 20,025 Soul-Bird drawings in one day — bringing his all-time total to 789,754 — at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa. Meanwhile, a ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Strait’, between Samoa and another island, is dedicated.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy and his students attend ‘The Magic Circus of Samoa’ — the first all-Samoan circus — in Apia, Samoa.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (478) at Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

2003

Sri Chinmoy lifts 46 people including 126-year-old great-great-grandmother Somo Santono, believed to be the world’s oldest living woman, as part of a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

DECEMBER 28TH

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy receives the Key to the City of San Juan from Mayor Carlos Romero Barceló at City Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Ateneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1974
The first exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens during a special Christmas Week celebration at the Unitarian Church in Hollis, NY, USA.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy conducts a public meditation at the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed with the Miami Herald after a public meditation at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School in Florida, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘Hawaii Health Line’, Radio K108, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (90) at Club de Viña in Viña del Mar, Chile.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people, including Nissim Ezekial, Father of Post-Independence Indian Verse in English, at the Regional Language Centre in Singapore.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy had a reunion with Lakhan Mehrotra, India’s High Commissioner to the UN and former Consul General of India to New York during Sri Chinmoy’s employment at the Indian Consulate in the mid-1960s, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

1991

Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of the Valletta Museum of Fine Arts as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Museum of Fine Arts, in Valletta, Malta.

 

1991

Sri Chinmoy personally inaugurates a Sri Chinmoy Peace Plane at Luqa International Airport, Luqa, Malta. After the ceremony, he takes a 30-minute flight in the plane.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy attends the dedication ceremony of the Mekong Delta as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom is held at the Mekong Delta in Tan An, Long An Province, Viet Nam.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100 metres (time, 15.10 seconds) and the 200 metres (time, 33.41 seconds) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held on a 400-metre dirt track in Apia Park, Apia, Western Samoa. There, Sri Chinmoy also meets with the Hon. Pule Lameko, Minister of Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs of Western Samoa.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (389) at the John Williams Building in Apia, Western Samoa.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy completes more than 800,000 (800,692) Soul-Birds at Hotel Kitano Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa — just under two years since he began the series of drawings, in Malta.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the grave of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 59 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

DECEMBER 29TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy visits the island of Caja de Muertos, an hour’s boat ride from Ponce in Puerto Rico.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ellis Clark, President of Trinidad and Tobago, at the Presidential Palace in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (24) at Hotel Suisse in Casablanca, Morocco.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy visits Borneo for the first time and stays at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy begins his ‘Dream-Freedom-Peace-Birds’ (Soul-Bird drawings) at the Mistra Village Hotel in St. Paul’s Bay, Malta. He will go on to complete over 16 million of these ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings in his lifetime.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Honourable Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Western Samoa, at the Office of the Prime Minister in Apia, Western Samoa.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with the ‘Chairman Monk’ — Venerable Sayadaw Baddanta Thawfita, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the State Sangha Mahanayaka Committee of Myanmar — at the Kaba Aye Pagoda compound in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (452) and a Jharna-Kala exhibit in honour of the Harare diplomatic community, at the Meikles Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Computers, e-mail and Spirituality’, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Self-Assertion says, “I Know, I Know, I Know”,’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy completes Aghater Par Aghat Karechhe Dharanir, his 10,000th Bengali song, at the Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a special musical performance at which he lifts 40 people, including 38 monks from Ounalom Pagoda, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

DECEMBER 30TH

 

1976
An article about Sri Chinmoy appears in The Miami Herald in Florida, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Admiralty House in Hamilton, Bermuda.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy race-walks a 5-mile race held at Ala Moana Beach Park, in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Teatro de la Cantv in Caracas, Venezuela.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy composes 50 songs on ‘Forgiveness’ (25 Bengali and English pairs) – later published as Khama Karo ‘Forgive Me’ – on a train ride from Santiago to Valdivia in Chile.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 people, including Saloman Ismanto, bodybuilder, 1969 Mr. Asia and 1973 Mr. Malaysia at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to His Majesty Ja’afar Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia, at the Palace of the King, Istana Negara, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Royal Family join Sri Chinmoy in holding the Peace Torch.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He also has a telephone interview with Daibel Faye of Radio Kan Kan, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York, USA.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7 people, including Jow Yu Ming, bodybuilding champion, at Hai Tian Hotel in Qingdao, China. He also gives a short esraj performance.

 

DECEMBER 31ST

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy delivers his New Year’s message for 1968 in person to his disciples at the Aum Centre in Puerto Rico.

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy holds a New Year’s meditation and offers his message for the year 1971 at his home in New York, NY, USA. At midnight, he meditates once more for three minutes.

 

1974

Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour non-stop performance of 100 new Bengali songs, later published as  Supreme, Teach Me How To Cry, at the United Methodist Church in Port Washington, NY, USA.

 

1982
Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in a time of 4:33:43, in Okinawa, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people including Remang Ak Japar, an 86-year-old headhunter and renowned Iban jungle warrior from the Iban tribe in Sarawak, who was awarded the George Cross by Great Britain for his great valour and heroism during WWII, at the Holiday Inn in Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia. Sri Chinmoy also lifts the Chief of the Iban tribe, Bansing ak Usah, who then bestows the title of Honorary Chief upon Sri Chinmoy by presenting him with his most treasured possession, his grandfather’s ring.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a special meditation at the Sacred Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi Tree at Mahamegha Vana Park in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The tree was planted from a cutting of the Bodhi Tree under which Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment at Buddha Gaya in India. It was brought to Sri Lanka by Theri Sangamitta, daughter of Emperor Asoka, and planted in 249 BC by King Devanampiyatissa. It is the oldest surviving historical tree in the world.

 

1993
A selection of Sri Chinmoy’s latest Soul-Bird drawings are displayed at Tokatoka Hotel in Nadi, Fiji. During the day, Sri Chinmoy completes another 15,706 birds, bring his overall total to 826,603.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy completes Sholo Hajar Gan Likhechhi, his 16,000th song, at Myanmar Lacquerware Institute in Bagan, Myanmar.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 54 students and teachers from Toul Kork Primary School at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy meditates with his students on New Year’s Eve in Christchurch, New Zealand. The same day, Sri Chinmoy composes an English song entitled, ‘New Year Comes’.