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JANUARY 1ST

 

1966
Sri Chinmoy offers his first New Year’s message at a meeting with his disciples in his apartment at 4826 New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

 

1974
The first issue of Anahata Nada — a Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletter — is published in Jamaica, New York, USA. It continues to be published until 2007, making it the longest-running Centre newsletter.

 

1978

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Admiralty House in Hamilton, Bermuda.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a 5-mile race in a time of 41 min. and 55 sec. in Tobago, West Indies.

 

1984

Sri Chinmoy meets with Luis Herrera Campins, President of Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy runs and walks a 7-mile New Year’s Day Run in a time of 2 hr., 1 min. and 5 sec. in Fukuyama, Japan.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Helena Keith from Radio RRI in Bali, Indonesia.

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy meets with Cardinal Jaime L. Sin at the Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, Our Lady of EDSA (Epifanio de Los Santos) in Quezon City, the Philippines.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mrs. Beth Romulo, wife of the late General Romulo, former Foreign Minister of the Philippines, in Manila, the Philippines.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy draws Soul-Bird artworks representing his father and mother as well as his sisters and brothers, in Nadi Fiji. Each artwork is composed of thousands of little ‘birds’. The number of little birds in his mother’s drawing, is found to be exactly 3,127 — Sri Chinmoy was born in 1931 on August 27th.

 

1996

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (453) at Magamba Hall in Harare, Zimbabwe.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy composes a New Year’s Day Prayer in Takamatsu, Japan.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (554) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy composes 10 prayer-poems in Curitiba, Brazil, later published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 2.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Bagan, Myanmar.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts orphans and monks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy meditates on New Year’s Day in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also offers thirteen prayer-poems.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers reflections on the other world, ‘The door between the two worlds’ and ‘As soon as you give up this body’ in talks with his disciples during a visit to Kuantan in Malaysia.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy receives two new Russian awards while in Varna, Bulgaria: the Order of Peter the Great of the First Degree from Russia’s National Committee of Public Awards and the Medallion of Frantz Lafort ‘To the Glory of Russia’ from the City of Moscow; and an honorary professorship and an honorary membership of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, at the Kempinsky Hotel Grand Hermitage in Varna, Bulgaria.

 

 

 

JANUARY 2ND

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Key to the City of Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Mayor Luis Antonio Morales.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, Premier of Antigua, in St. John’s, Antigua.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Scarborough, Tobago. There, he also gives a short talk entitled, ‘A Higher and Better Life’.

 

1984

Sri Chinmoy meets with Jaime Lusinchi, President-elect of Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela.

 

1990

Sri Chinmoy is invited by the President of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa, to share the podium with him and to offer a prayer during his nationally televised speech at the Festival of Lights in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

 

1992

The Parco Zoo di Sicilia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Sicily, Italy.

 

1992

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (290) at the Sheraton Hotel in Catania, Sicily, dedicated to Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, attended by 600 people.

 

1993
The Philippine Star daily newspaper hails Sri Chinmoy as a “peace crusader”, in its Saturday edition, published in Manila, the Philippines. 

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (322) and organ recital in Manila Cathedral in the Philippines. The same day, he composes a song, entitled, ‘I Am a True Filipino’.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy sketches Soul-Bird drawings, with a total for the day of 5,592, bringing his all-tine total to 861,906.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy takes a boat ride with his students on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe.

 

1996

Victoria Falls is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Falls in Zimbabwe. Later the same day, Harare International Airport is proclaimed a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport.

 

1997
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the Okura Hotel in Takamatsu, Japan.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers the first of 48 Peace Concerts (530) dedicated to the New Millennium, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe — in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy composes 9 prayer-poems in Curitiba, Brazil; later published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 2.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Canal de Musica in Curitiba, Brazil.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy is invited by Myanmar’s Secretary-1 to pray and meditate at the 37-foot-high Buddha statue on Min Dhamma Hill in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

 

 

JANUARY 3RD

 

1975

Sri Chinmoy meets with Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Co-ordination, at a meeting of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, in New York.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (55) in Miroku no Sato, Fukuyama, Japan.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 orphaned child performers and their manager from the Oriental Circus, at the Bali Garden Beach Resort in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1992

Leonardo da Vinci Institute is inaugurated as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Institute, in Catania, Sicily, Italy.

 

1992

The Ferrovia Cicumetnea, the train that circles Mt. Etna, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Train in Sicily, Italy. At the ceremony, Sri Chinmoy meets with the Archbishop of Catania Luigi Bommarito.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Dr. Ananda Guruge, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to France, USA and UNESCO, at the Okura Hotel in Takamatsu, Japan.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (578) the final in his series of 48 concerts dedicated to the New Millennium, at the Canal de Musica in Curitiba, Brazil. After the concert he is interviewed about his reasons for visiting Brazil and the importance of peace in the New Millennium.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy composes his 17,000th song in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

 

 

JANUARY 4TH

 

1967
Sri Chinmoy gives an early interview to Mrs. Barbara Callen of New York City, NY, USA, answering questions about ‘the soul’. Mrs. Callen records his exact words, taking everything down in shorthand.

 

1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Court of Divine Justice’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Inner Message of the United Nations’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Naha, Okinawa, Japan.

 

1985

Sri Chinmoy meets with the Governor of the Province of Agadir, Ahmed Motii, in Agadir, Morocco.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK-TV), the Japanese National Broadcasting Association in Fukuyama, near Hiroshima, Japan. The interview is later aired on national television.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Message of Peace, in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy receives a letter from President Premadasa welcoming him to Sri Lanka.

 

1990

Sri Chinmoy is received by President Premadasa and tours the Museum at Sucharita Hall, the President’s residence, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Chinmoy then offers a Peace Concert (213) for the President and numerous ministers and invited guests; moving outdoors, Sri Chinmoy lifts the President overhead with one arm using before national media, and offers the President the Lifting up the World With a Oneness-Heartmedallion; then, finally, Sri Chinmoy and the President meet privately.

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy meets with President Fidel Valdez Ramos of the Philippines at Malacañang Palace in San Miguel, Manila, the Philippines.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy and his students travel from Manila to Cebu City, Cebu, in the Philippines, staying at the Midtown Hotel until 11 January.

 

 

1994
The Fiji Times reports on the arrival of Sri Chinmoy and about 210 students in Fiji.

 

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy draws 15,691 Soul-Birds, bringing his grand total to 894,007. His goal of 1,000,000 is just days away.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (479) in Takamatsu, Japan.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in the Prime Minister’s office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the ceremony, the Prime Minister and Sri Chinmoy hold the Peace Torch together.

 

 

JANUARY 5TH

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Salvation, Liberation and Realisation’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy begins writing 100 Indian stories (1-4), later published as Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 1. Eventually, a ten-volume series is compiled from Sri Chinmoy’s telling of Indian stories.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a talk entitled ‘Each Moment’, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Naga, Okinawa, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy conducts a Peace Ceremony and Peace Walk at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Message to the People of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (56) at the Hiroshima Prefecture Cultural Centre, Japan.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled, ‘Forgiveness and Gratitude’, in Valdivia, Chile.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (91) in Hotel Pedro De Valdivia in Valdivia, Chile.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including Jemmadi Basri, 1979 Mr. Asia; Malek Noor, Malek, four times Mr. Asia 1985-1988 and 1988,1989 finalist, Mr. Universe; and Datuk Samy Vellu, Minister of Public Works, President, Malaysian-Indian Congress, at the Grand Continental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (214) at the Ratnapura Town Hall. At the request of President Premadasa, Chief Minister Arthur Ranasinghe officially receives Sri Chinmoy and attends the concert in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. Prior to the concert, Sri Chinmoy is greeted by the Provincial Governor Abeyratne Pilapitiya and is ushered in a traditional procession from the Clock Tower to the Town Hall.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy sends a special birthday greeting to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev in Russia, from the Riu Bonanza Hotel in Tenerife, Spain.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference and answers questions about weightlifting, world peace and offers a Message to the people of Cebu, at the Midtown Hotel in Cebu City, the Philippines.

 

1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks — displaying 400 line drawings and 100 paintings — opens at the Rizal Memorial Museum in Cebu City, the Philippines.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Millennium Man of the 21st Century’ Award from the Metro-Cebu Theosophical Foundation and Lapu Lapu Foundation in Cebu, the Philippines.

 

1994

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (390) at the Civic Centre, in Suva, Fiji.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy completes his first one million ‘Dream-Freedom Peace-Birds’ drawings in Suva, Fiji. He dedicates the entire collection to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. The final count is 1,001,919.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy offers the first of 50 Peace Concerts (401) dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, beginning at the Mya Yeiknyo Deluxe Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. The concert is attended by General Tint Swe (Ret.), and the Venerable Kaba-Aye Sayadaw U Pannadipa, President of the World Buddhist Meditation Institute.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (480) at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy composes his immortal song, Cheyechhilam Kabi Hate, on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, Malaysia, on Malaysian Airlines Flight 2683. Read Sri Chinmoy’s commentary...

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers two talks entitled ‘Reverence’ and ‘Value your Spiritual Life’ at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy plays golf on the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort golf course, in Kijal, Malaysia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 6TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy gives a ‘Three Kings Day’ message — about the three wise men who came bearing gifts for the Divine Child — to the AUM Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy gives an inspirational talk at the beginning of the New Year at the United Nations in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes an Indian story (5), which is later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 1.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert at the Central Union Church in Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

1993
In connection with the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, Governor Cebu Province in the Philippines, Vicente L. de la Serna, joins his region with the international Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom family by declaring it a Sri Chinmoy Peace Province.

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (323) at St. Theresa’s College in Cebu City, the Philippines.

 

1994
A selection of Sri Chinmoy’s first one million Soul-Bird drawings is exhibited at the Travelodge in Suva, Fiji.

 

1994

Sri Chinmoy’s first Peace Concert (390) in Fiji, recorded the previous evening, is broadcast in part on television in Suva, Fiji.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Partha Sarthy, Ambassador of India to Myanmar, in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy and his students take a day-trip ferry ride to Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Australia.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Ananda Guruge of Sri Lanka and his wife Darshanika at a special function in Kijal, Kemaman, Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia.

 

JANUARY 7TH

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert Muller, Director and Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Co-ordination, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy dedicates his book of 401 rhyming poems From the Source to the Source to his brother Chitta who inspired him in the poetry-world.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 12 more Indian stories (6-17), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 1.

 

1986

Sri Chinmoy performs 2,230 pushups in 59 minutes, 40 seconds at a function hall in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, near Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts the Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Ja’afar Ibni Al Markham — a former Ambassador of Malaysia to Japan — at the Sultan’s Palace in Seremban, Malaysia. (The Sultan had read in the New Straits Times that Sri Chinmoy had lifted Malaysia’s Minister of Works Datuk S. Sarny Vellu and was himself, delighted to be lifted.) Sri Chinmoy also composed a song for the Sultan, entitled ‘Sultan, Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar, Sultan!’, which is performed for him by an international choir of Sri Chinmoy’s students.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy participates in a Peace Mile Relay, along with Sri Lanka’s Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport Nanda Mathew, at the Ministry of Sports in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

1990

Sri Chinmoy is awarded the Honorary Degree of Visva Sama Duta, meaning ‘Ambassador of Universal Peace’, by the Royal Asgiriya Order of Buddhist Monks in Kandy, Sri Lanka – the first time the award has been presented to a non-Buddhist.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy completes Seven Thousand Blue-Gold Birds drawings, at the Hotel Riu Bonanza in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy attends the dedication ceremony of Mactan–Cebu International Airport becoming a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport, in Cebu, the Philippines.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy and his students take an ocean boat ride off Suva, in Fiji.

 

1995
An exhibition of 22,665 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings — 11,666 completed in Myanmar — is held at the Mya Yeik Nyo, Deluxe Hotel, in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meets with Raymond Mhlaba, Premier of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, at the Holiday Inn, Kings Beach, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy holds a 7-hour meditation at the Holiday Inn Centro in Cancún, Mexico; and composes his immortal song, ‘My Lord Beloved Supreme with Every Breath of My Heart’. He also composes his song for the New Millennium, entitled ‘Twenty First Century’. Read Sri Chinmoy’s commentaries...

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation for the ‘Victory over Genocide’ celebration, attended by Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Party leaders and the President of the Senate, at the Cambodian People’s Party Headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy visits ‘Wild World’, a native wildlife sanctuary in Palm Cove near Cairns, and holds one of Australia's iconic animals – the koala.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Austerity versus Wisdom’, at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort, in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.

 

2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in Cambridge Central Library, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy makes the first of three early-morning short videos of the setting moon and the rising sun near Varna in Bulgaria, during which he chants, prays and sings.

 

 

 

JANUARY 8TH

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy receives a very gracious reply to a letter he wrote to Mrs. Childers expressing his sympathy on the unexpected death of her husband, the former President of Ireland Erskine Childers, whom he had met in July the previous year.

 

1976
The Liberty Torch Runners receive a ‘Letter of Commendation’ from President Gerald R. Ford sent from The White House in Washington, DC, USA. Inspired by Sri Chinmoy, the 27 relay runners ran 8,800 miles, non-stop, around-the-clock for 46 days through all 50 states, as a Bicentennial offering, carrying a flaming torch to symbolise the rekindling of spiritual values and human ideals upon which the country was founded.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj in concert at the United Nations in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 4 more Indian stories (18-20) and (21), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 1 and part 2.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (57) at the Kyoto Furitsu Cultural Arts Hall in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy dedicates a Peace Tree together with the Mayor of Colombo M. Hussain Mohamed in Victoria Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka. On his arrival at the tree-planting ceremony, Sri Chinmoy is welcomed by a military band and garlanded by the Mayor. And, after the ceremony, the Mayor escorts Sri Chinmoy across the street to the Town Hall for a reception, introducing him one by one to the members of the Municipal Council who had waited in line to greet him.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts several members of the Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa’s cabinet and ministry including Bradman Weerakoon, presidential advisor, at the Colombo Hilton in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (215) — under the patronage of Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, who also attends, along with Chief Minister Ranasinghe, Presidential Advisor Bradman Weerakoon, and the Mayor of Colombo M. Hussain Mohamed — at the Elphinstone Theatre in Colombo, Sri Lanka. There, Sri Chinmoy lifts the Mayor of Colombo.

 

1993
At the opening reception of a two-week exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks, the Rizal Memorial Library and Museum is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Cebu City, the Philippines. Sri Chinmoy donates two original paintings to the museum.

 

1994
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy's artworks opens in Suva, Fiji, including the large drawing that contains the 1,000,000th Soul-Bird.

 

1994

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at the National Stadium in Suva, Fiji. He competes in the 100-metre and 200-metre races. Read the report in The Fiji Times...

 

1994
Fiji’s capital city, Suva, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital by Suva’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Manoa Dobui, at a ceremony attended by Sri Chinmoy and city officials, in Suva, Fiji. Read the report in The Fiji Times...

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy meditates at Shwedagon Pagoda — also known as the Golden Pagoda — in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

1999
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s upcoming Peace Concert and Peace Run in Penang appears in the Guang Ming Daily newspaper, a Chinese-language newspaper published in Malaysia.

 

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

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy makes the second of three early-morning short videos of the setting moon and the rising sun near Varna in Bulgaria, during which he chants, prays and sings.

 

 

 

JANUARY 9TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers the first lecture (2 p.m.) in his 50-state lecture series, entitled ‘Thought-Waves’, in Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. All 50 lectures are later published as Fifty Freedom-Boats to one Golden Shore.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘Realisation, Revelation and Perfection’, in Paine Hall, Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Divine Friends and Undivine Foes’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with Baron von Wechmar, President, UN General Assembly, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 people, including Saeng Chandra Ngarm, former dean of Chiang Mai University, in the Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (167) in the Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy has his third meeting with Sri Lanka’s President Ranasinghe Premadasa who inscribes two of his own books for Sri Chinmoy naming him ‘Ambassador of Peace’ at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (258) at the Hindu Dharma Vidya Bhavan Institute in Bali, Indonesia.

 

1995
Sri Chinmoy attends a cultural programme hosted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Tipitaka Nykarya Upahsaka Sasana organisation. And, he later meets with the Minister of Religious Affairs, Lieutenant-General Myo Nyunt in Yangon, Myanmar.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy composes 201 songs in 4 hours, the most he has composed in one day, in Cancún, Mexico.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Chinese Town Hall, Penang, Malaysia.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bourbon Iguaçu Falls Hotel, Iguaçu Falls, Brazil.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hai Tian Hotel in Qingdao, China.

 

2007
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti — in Florence, Italy.

 

 

JANUARY 10TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy delivers his first university lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality: What it is and What it is not’, at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation at historic Christ Church in Philadelphia, PA, USA, as part of the programme for the 360-mile, US Bicentennial ‘Liberty-Torch’ run between New York and Washington. Read Sri Chinmoy’s own inspired words...

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace: God’s Universal Language’ at Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (58) and a lecture, entitled ‘Peace: God’s Dream-Reality’s Oneness-Boat, Fulness-Shore’, at the University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (145) at the Ambarrukmo Palace Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy answers questions posed by a reporter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy takes an elephant ride for the first time, at an elephant camp outside Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the completion of his drawing of ‘Seven Thousand Blue-Gold Birds’ with a display and a banquet at the Hotel Riu Bonanza in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy draws ‘Soul-Birds’ on little objects that his students had purchased in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

 

1998
Guatemala City is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Capital by the Mayor of Guatemala City, Oscar Berger, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy invites his students to ask him questions about philosophy, at the Golden Sands Hotel in Penang, Malaysia. His spontaneous answers are later published in Philosophy: Wisdom-Chariot of the Mind.

 

2000

Iguaçu Falls is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom at a ceremony in Iguaçu National Park, Brazil.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a special concert and tells stories for his students at a 2-hour function honouring Swami Vivekananda (b. 12 January 1863) for his upcoming birthday anniversary.

 

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

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy takes a ride in a rickshaw by the Bay of Bengal in Pondicherry, India.

 

 

 

 

JANUARY 11TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The World Within and the World Without’, at College Hall, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy offers a wreath and meditates at the grave of President John F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (59) at the Aichi Prefecture Women’s Cultural Hall in Nagoya, Japan.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Message of Peace to the People of Nagoya while in Nagoya, Japan.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (92) at Hotel El Pardo in Lima, Peru.

 

1989

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (168) and lifts 10 people, including Roongraung Boonyoros, Founder of the Buddhist University, at the National Theatre in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 

1994
The Cook Islands News reports on upcoming events that Sri Chinmoy is holding during his week-long visit to the islands, including a Masters Games (for athletes aged 50+), a Peace Run and a Peace Concert, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Incarnation of Golden Opportunity’, at the Summerstrand Holiday Inn, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (454) — which he dedicates to President Mandela — and a Jharna-Kala exhibit, in City Hall, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

 

1997
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the New Sky Hotel in Kuma Noto, Japan.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort Convention Centre in Palm Cove near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

 

2005

Sri Chinmoy offers his 700th Peace Concert at the Great Wall of China, in Badaling Section, near Beijing, China.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and meditation for the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami victims, attended by Miss Liu Yan Jun, General-Secretary of the Red Cross, at the Beijing York Hotel in Beijing, China.

 

 

 

JANUARY 12TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy delivers his second university lecture, entitled ‘Fear of the Inner Life’, at the University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Silence’, in Conference Room 6 at the United Nations in New York.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘You’, at Meyer Hall, New York University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1976
A feature article on Sri Chinmoy’s life and philosophy, entitled ‘Sri Chinmoy Writes, Paints and Holds Out Hope of a Path to Paradise’, appears in the popular American magazine, People Weekly.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy is a special guest on ‘The Pat Collins Show’ on New York television, NY, USA. Watch the video...

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes an Indian story (32), which is later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 2.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy is the invited Guest of Honour at a reception hosted by Akishige Matsumoto, Chairman of the Central Executive Office of the Japan Republic Association, in Kyoto, Japan.

 

1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (291) at the Hotel Riu Bonanza, Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the concert to Soviet President Gorbachev and it is attended by over 400 people.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Geoffrey A. Henry, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (531) at the Holiday Inn Centro Hotel in Cancún, Mexico.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy completes one mile of a Runners are Smilers race, racewalking in a time of 16 munites, 48 seconds in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. At the race, he offers the race prayer.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 51 people including hotel staff at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

 

JANUARY 13TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Beyond’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk at the beginning of the New Year at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy gives a short inspirational talk about Swami Vivekananda (1) as part of a series of four lectures on world leaders from January-April 1978.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 11 more Indian stories (33-40) and (41-43), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 2 and part 3.

 

1983

Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1983

Sri Chinmoy meets with Bradford Morse, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand Somdej Phra Sankharaj — the head of the country’s order of Buddhist monks — in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 9 Buddhist Monks at Wat Mahathat in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts Major General Chamlong Srimuang, Governor of Bangkok, at the  Municipal Building in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1993

Davao International Airport is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport, which Sri Chinmoy attends in Davao City, the Philippines. At the airport, Sri Chinmoy gives a television interview.

 

1993
A Jharna-Kala exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at the Smith Gallery in London, UK.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy composes songs at the Insular Hotel in Davao, the Philippines. Songs from this day, as well as others composed on his visit to the Philippines, are later published in Gahite Chahi Kali Mayer Gan.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (455) at Teknikon College in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The concert is introduced by Raymond Mhlaba, Premier of Eastern Cape Province and Sri Chinmoy dedicates the concert to President Nelson Mandela.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Unconditional Surrender’, at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Greatness, Goodness and God-Oneness’, at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy tells 5 amusing stories — American Cities, The Master’s Prediction, My uncle rejects his occult power, Bengal, Indiana and What an occultist can do — at the Piramides Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.

 

2001

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India, in Bali, Indonesia.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kempinsky Hotel, Grand Hermitage, in Varna, Bulgaria.

 

 

 

JANUARY 14TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘How to Live in Two Worlds’, at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Examination’, at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 7 more Indian stories (44-50), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 3.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Supreme Patriarch-elect of Thailand, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Cook Islands Parliament in Rarotonga.

 

1994
Rarotonga is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Island.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (391) at the National Auditorium in the district of Avarua, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy participates in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Technicon Stadium, University of Port Elizabeth, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He runs the 100 metres in 16.68 seconds and the 200 metres in 35.58 seconds.

 

1997

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (481) at the Meru Paruku Hotel in Kumamoto, Japan.

 

1998
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s peace initiatives in Mexico.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 38 people at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy has a telephone interview with a reporter for the ‘Beijing Science and Technology Report’, who is calling from Beijing. Sri Chinmoy takes the call at the Shangri-La Golden Flower Hotel in Xi’an, China.

 

 

JANUARY 15TH

 

1968
Sri Chinmoy speaks on ‘How Can One Reach God in One’s Lifetime?’, during his visit to the Aum Centre in Santurce, Puerto Rico. The question is asked by Mr. Jose Luis Casanova (Agni).

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy begins taking photographs on a regular basis.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy receives a gracious letter from Aye Aye Myint-U, daughter of the third Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant, and sends his reply the very next day.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on ‘Poetry and Spirituality’ at the Sri Chinmoy Poetry Awards ceremony held in the Jharna-Kala Gallery at Grand Central Station in Manhattan, New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 8 more Indian stories (51-58), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 3.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes stories about two of Indias’s great patriots, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Chitta Ranjan Das.

 

1984
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the upcoming anniversary of his 20 years in the West by offering a 7-hour meditation, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘Learning from Tennis’, at the Bali Beach Hotel, Indonesia.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 9 People at the Thavorn Palm Beach Hotel in Phuket, Thailand.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy plants a Peace Tree at Warmadewa University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1993

Mount Apo — the highest mountain in the Philippines — is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom. During the dedication ceremony held in Sandawa Plaza, on Quimpo Boulevard, Davao City, the Philippines, Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Key to the City of Davao by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (324) at Davao Recreation Center in Davao, the Philippines. Sri Chinmoy also meets with the Mayor of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte, who attends the concert.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy participates in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Tereora National Stadium, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. He runs the 100 metres in 15.12 seconds and the 200 metres in 33.49 seconds.

 

1995
A report on Sri Chinmoy’s recent visit to Nepal is published in the Eastern Time newspaper, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy completes his 9 millionth Soul-Bird drawing in Merida, Mexico.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 members of ‘The Healing Arts’ Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy comments on ‘Homeopathy and Allopathy’, at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warrior Museum in Xi’an, China.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘When I Give You a Job, at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort, Kijal, Malaysia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 16TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘Choice’, in West Chapel, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘Meditation: The Inner Education’, in Smith Hall, the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy writes four inspirational stories.

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about ‘The New Year, 1975’ in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations, New York.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy answers a series of questions on Religion at the United Nations in New York.

 

1986

Sri Chinmoy lifts 170 lbs., using his right arm only, for the first time in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Gratitude’ in Papeʻete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy symbolically holds the Peace Torch at the start of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run in Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu, Japan.

 

1998
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run in Mérida, the capital of the state of Yucatán, Mexico.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 42 people at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 50 members (47 children) of the Balinese Dance Foundation in Bali Pad Ma Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. During the programme, Sri Chinmoy offers a short esraj performance.

 

 

 

JANUARY 17TH

 

1967
The Aum Centre, Inc. of New York City (later to become known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre) is officially certified as an incorporated organisation by the Supreme Court of New York County. Its Spiritual Director and President is Chinmoy Kumar Ghose.

1977
Sri Chinmoy presents his 300 published books to Philadelphia’s Mayor Frank L. Rizzo for the Free Library of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including a number of his visiting Yugoslavian disciples, at the Armonia Hotel in Athens, Greece. Before the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk.

 

         

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (292), in honour of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at Teatro Guimera in Santa Cruz — the Canary Islands’ most prestigious concert hall — in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The same day, Sri Chinmoy composes a song dedicated to The Gorbachev Foundation, which is sung at the concert.

 

1993
The Thames is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom River in London, Great Britain.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy competes — running and walking — in a 2-mile ‘Runners Are Smilers’ event at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa, finishing in a time of 20:25.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (556) at the Sheraton Surabaya Hotel in Surabaya, Indonesia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Udayana University in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2001

Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Heart of Bali’ award presented by the Rector of Udayana University, Professor. Dr. K. Sukardika, Dsmk, at Udayana University in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Friendship House in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. He presents Tran Van Tao, President of the Union of Friendship Organisations, with a special plaque emblazoned with music and lyrics of three songs he has written about Viet Nam — Viet Nam Friendship Organisations: A World-Betterment Dream and Mekong Delta. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy also lifts Tran Van Tao as well as Vo Anh Tuan, President of the Ho Chi Minh City Peace Committee and Ambassador of Viet Nam to the United Nations when U Thant was Secretary-General.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Prince Dipokusumo and Princess Febri from Solo at the Bali Padma Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Taman Budaya Art Centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2007
Sri Chinmoy makes his third early-morning short video of the setting moon and the rising sun near Varna in Bulgaria, during which he chants, prays and sings.

 

 

 

JANUARY 18TH

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy
 offers a special message to senior citizens in the local area who attend a vegetarian banquet hosted by Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 17 more Indian stories (61-77), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 4.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 39 people at the Armonia Hotel in Athens, Greece.

 

1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (216) at the Armonia Hotel in Athens, Greece.

 

1992

Sri Chinmoy breaks his American 100-metre sprinting record of 14.48 (set on 23 Sep. 1983) with a time of 14.13, at the Universidad de la Laguna track in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

 

1993

      

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Peace Studies from the University of Southern Philippines in Cebu City, the Philippines. He is the fifth recipient since the university’s founding in 1927. Sri Chinmoy delivers his acceptance speech and a talk, entitled ‘University: The Wisdom-Source of World Peace-Makers’.

 

1993
A collection of 3,700 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings is exhibited at the University of Southern Philippines in Cebu City, the Philippines. During his seven weeks in Asia, Sri Chinmoy completes 10,000 new bird drawings.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy is greeted by the Mayor of Durban Mr. Sipho Ngwenya and Sita Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at Durban International Airport in Durban, South Africa.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference at the South Beach Holiday Inn in Durban, South Africa.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including 30 monks from 8 different pagodas; and Tim Page, famous war photographer for AP and UPI, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled, ‘The Psychic Beings are Most Beautiful’, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2003

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort Convention Centre in Cairns, northern Queensland, Australia.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Centre in Xi’an, China. There, he also lifts two pandas — the largest, weighing 432 pounds, is officially named ‘Chinmoy’ for a year. In addition, Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including a group of schoolchildren from Dy Zhou zhi Yonghong School Xi’an in Shaanxi province, who present him with a commemorative banner.

 

 

 

JANUARY 19TH

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy comments on Spiritual Words given to him by his disciples at a Sunday afternoon meeting of the Aum Centre in New York City, NY, USA.

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to the students of Karate Teacher, Mr Kimo Wall of Honolulu, Hawaii, at 2:00 p.m., at the Sagrado Corazon College in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after Kimo and his students had given a skilful performance of karate. He also answers a series of spiritual questions from the students.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Problems’, in Conference Room 9, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace’, at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (259) at the Taman Budaya Art Centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meditates at a reception by the Hindu Maha Sabha at Gandhi Hall in Durban, South Africa.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (482) at the Sun Royal Hotel in Kagoshima, Japan.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (532) in Merida Cathedral, Merida, Mexico.

 

2000

Paraguay is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation by the country’s Minister of Tourism, Hugo Galli Romanach, and read out during Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert (580) at Hotel Ita Enramada in Asunción, Paraguay.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Zambia Award.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort Convention Centre in Palm Cove, near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 20TH

 

1975
The Senate of Puerto Rico unanimously passes a proclamation to honour Sri Chinmoy’s visit to the Senate floor, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy is a guest at the half-hour interfaith prayer service on the morning of President Carter’s inauguration, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, USA. Seventy of Sri Chinmoy’s students were asked to assist as official ushers at the inauguration ceremony. They wear distinctive coloured blazers — girls, pink and boys, blue — that were specially designed and made by the Centre for the occasion.

 

1980
At Sri Chinmoy’s request, the first Inspiration Marathon is held at 6:00 a.m. — in subfreezing conditions — in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Thirty-six runners compete in the impromptu event and even Sri Chinmoy, still recovering from running injuries, completes the first 13 miles and then another few miles near the finish.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy’s prerecorded interview is broadcast on NBC’s television programme ‘The First Estate’ in New York, NY, USA.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy lifts 3,081¾ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (146) at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1990

Sri Chinmoy runs the final lap — in the Olympic Stadium in Athens — of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Marathon relay held on Pheidippides’ original marathon route from Marathon to Athens in Greece.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jean Juventin, President of the French Polynesian Parliament, in Papeete, Tahiti.

 

1994

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (392) at L’Assemblée Territoriale, Papeete, Tahiti.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughters Ela Gandhi and Sita Dhupelia at the Holiday Inn, at South Beach, in Durban, South Africa.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy visits the Sri Ramakrishna Centre at Glen Anil in Durban, South Africa.

 

1998
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario Del Sureste (Southeast Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Merida, Yucatan, and other peace initiatives.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Palace in Mexico City, Mexico.

 

1998

Sri Chinmoy receives the Corazón de Oro (Heart of Gold) Award for his “great altruistic service in the cause of world peace,” from the Society of Authors and Music Composers, Mexico, at the society’s headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico. Sri Chinmoy also composes the song ‘Corazon de Oro’.

 

2000
The town of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, India, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

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

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Taman Werdhi Budaya Art Centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2004

Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Presidential Medallion, Indonesia’s highest award “for service to humanity” by Vice President Hamzah Haz at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Shangri-La Golden Flower Hotel in Xi’an, China.

 

 

 

JANUARY 21ST

 

1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Quintessence of Mysticism’, at the American University, Washington, DC, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers the first of seven lectures, entitled ‘Spiritual Power, Occult Power and Will Power’, at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for the third UN Secretary-General U Thant (22 Jan. 1909 – 25 Nov. 1974), at the United Nations in New York for the anniversary of his birth.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ambassador Zenon Rossides of Cyprus for the first time, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 4 more Indian stories (78-80) and (81), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 4 and part 5.

 

1987
Sri Chinmoy holds a 13-hour meditation and plays 86 instruments — first session 63 instruments, second session 23 instruments — in Jamaica, NY, USA.

 

1991
The Kartika Plaza Hotel in Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Bali, Indonesia, renames its ocean-facing gates the Sri Chinmoy Peace Gateway.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts 53 people in 90 minutes, a total weight of 8,018 pounds, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1992
The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Library is inaugurated at the Biblioteca Publica Municipal-Tomas de Iriarte, in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, Spain. Also, the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Beach is inaugurated at Playa Coronella at Puerto de la Cruz; and the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace House at the Casa de Los Balcones (House of the Balconies) in Orotava is inaugurated.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (325) at Silliman University, in Dumaguete the Philippines.

 

1994

      

Sri Chinmoy participates in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in Stade Pater, the national stadium, in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. His time for 100 metres is 15.29, and his time for 200 metres is 34.03.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Durban, South Africa. His finishing time is 21:02.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy tours Phoenix Settlement, where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, led by his granddaughters Ela Gandhi and Sita Dhupelia, in Durban, South Africa.

 

1997

      

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (483) at Junshin Joshi Catholic Girls School in Kagoshima, Japan.

 

1998
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Mexico, Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, at his official residence in Los Pinos, Mexico City, where he receives the ‘Heart of Gold’ award from the Society of Lyricists and Composers. The Society has some 30,000 members, and up to now, the award has only been given to Pope John Paul II, Tenor Plácido Domingo, singer-lyricist and producer John Gabriel and the Director General of the WIPO Agency of the United Nations.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 people at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk entitled ‘Our Philosophy’, at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort, in Kijal, Malaysia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 22ND

 

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on WRVR’s ‘Connections’ programme in Connecticut, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Experience’, in the Commons Room, Graduate School, at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (8 p.m.), entitled ‘The Heart’, in David Rittenhouse Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 7 more Indian stories (81-87), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy runs the Orange Bowl Marathon in a time of 5:33:33, in Miami, FL, USA.

 

1992

Loro Parque is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Park, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Sri Chinmoy presents the park with a commemorative award bearing his ‘Soul-Bird’ drawings. After the inauguration, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of wide-ranging questions.

 

1992

The world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport is inaugurated at Reina Sofia International Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Hubert Reynolds, Professor of Peace Studies at Silliman University, at the South Seas Resort Hotel in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy attends the inauguration of Faleolo International Airport as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport in Apia, Western Samoa. Representing the Western Samoa Airport Authority at the ceremony is the airport manager Etuale Sefo.

 

1995
         

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (402) dedicated to the United Nations, at the Maui Lu Hotel in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy participates in the Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in Asunción, Paraguay. His time is 39:49.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to his students, entitled ‘Only Friend, Best Friends, Fair-weather Friends’, at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy speaks about his days as a champion athlete in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Poficherry, India, during an afternoon function with his students in Xi’an, China.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 orphans from Tengku Ampuan Fatimah Orphanage, at the Awana Kijal Golf Resort in Terengganu, Kuantan, Malaysia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 23RD

 

1975
Sri Chinmoy receives the 1974 Annual Mentor Poetry Award from the North American Mentor magazine for his poem ‘O Bird of Light’.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy writes 8 more Indian stories (88-95), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 5.

 

1992

Teide National Park, which includes Mount Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy National Peace Park, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

 

1996

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (453) at which King of the Zulu Nation HRH Goodwill Kabhekuzulu Zwelithini delivers the welcome address, in City Hall, Durban, South Africa. The King unveils the plaque declaring Durban a Sri Chinmoy Peace Metropolitan Area, which is presented by the Acting Mayor, Councillor Panday, and the Chairperson of the Metropolitan Executive Council, Mr. Obed Mlaba. The City Hall also hosts an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks. Read more...

 

1997
The Hungarian State Opera House is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy’s play about India’s greatest freedom-fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is performed for the first time. It is staged by Sri Chinmoy’s students in Kagoshima, Japan, on the day of Netaji’s Birth Centenary. Sri Chinmoy originally wrote the play in Bengali in 1948 at the age of just sixteen. In November 1996, he translated it into English.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (484) in observance of the Birth Centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — India’s legendary revolutionary leader and hero — at the Sun Royal Hotel in Kagoshima, Japan.

 

1998
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario de Yucatán (Yucatan Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with the President of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy completes his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of India Award.

 

2002
In a short talk to his students, given at the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Sri Chinmoy encourages them to train for a marathon and announces his wish to have a public marathon with the goal of 700 participants. (On 30 August 2002, the first Self-Transcendence Marathon takes place at Rockland Lake State Park in Congers, New York, attracting over 700 runners. It becomes an annual event. Watch the video of the first race...)

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy begins writing this collection of 50 meditative aphorisms — Fifty Oneness-Heart-Songs of a Perfect God and a Perfect Child — in China, during a bus ride from Xi'an to Huangshan, and he finishes it the same day upon his arrival in Huangshan, China.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at a dinner hosted and attended by HRH Daulat Tuanku, the Sultan of Pahang, in Kuantan, Malaysia

 

 

 

JANUARY 24TH

 

1971
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk about meditation and answers 36 questions on the topic at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The Steve Powers Show’ on WMCA-AM Radio in New York, NY, USA. Listen to the interview...

 

1979
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centre De Réadaptation in Quebec City, QC, Canada.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy completes 100 Indian stories in 19 days, later published a Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (60) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Peace: Tomorrow’s Blossoming Smile’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

 

1991
The Dharma Vidya Bhavan Garden is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Bali, Indonesia.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets With Emilio C. Macias II, Governor of Negros Oriental Province, in Dumaguete, the Phillipines.

 

1994
Sri Chinmoy composes his song, ‘Bhulite Diyona Tomar Charan’.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy holds a 4-hour meditation for the completion of his poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants and begins a new poetry challenge, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, in Cancún, Mexico. Read more…

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sheraton Bandung Hotel in Bandung, Indonesia.

 

2001
Indonesia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, with the inauguration ceremony held at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Indonesia Award.

 

2001
Burkina Faso is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Australia Award, dedicated by Federal Member of Parliament Trish Worth.

 

2003
Sri Chinmoy composes his 11,000th Bengali song Tumi Amar Sneher Putul Amar Ranjana.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2006
A library wing holding 2,400 of Sri Chinmoy’s books is dedicated in a ceremony at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

 

 

 

JANUARY 25TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Power’, at the Luther I. Bonney Hall, University of Maine, in Orono, ME, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Time’, at the Happy Valley Common Room, Marlboro College, in Marlboro, VT, USA.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy meets with Muhammad Ali for the first time in Puerto Rico, and then attends one of his training sessions. At the time of the meeting, the legendary boxer was the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist, and the world heavyweight champion (1964-67 and 1974-75).

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy meets with tennis champion Yannick Noah at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.

 

1986

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (61) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Can Have Peace’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy composes his 5,000th Bengali song, Tumi Karunar Sindhu Ami Eshana Bindu, in Bali, Indonesia.

 

1999

Sri Chinmoy meets with President of Indonesia B.J. Habibie at an official state function in the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

2000
Brazil is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation at a commemorative ceremony held by the Minister of Sports and Tourism Rafael Greca de Maceda, and other government officials, at the Parliament of Good Will in Brasilia, Brazil.

 

2001
East Timor is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

 

 

JANUARY 26TH

 

1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Journey’s Start, the Journey’s Close’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.

 

1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Idea and Ideal; The Real and the Eternal’, at the United Nations in New York.

 

1977
An exhibition of 60 of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Toronto-Dominican Bank in Toronto, ON, Canada.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert, together with a Jharna-Kala exhibition, at the University of Toronto in Canada.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy composes Chalbo Ami Parama Pita.

 

1985
Sri Chinmoy composes his 3,000th Bengali song, Ami Chinmoy Chira Tanmoy.

 

1991

Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree from Dwijendra University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (326) at the Philippines Cultural Centre, dedicated to President Aquino, in Manila, the Philippines.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Myanmar Award.

 

 

 

 

JANUARY 27TH

 

1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Love Me or Hate Me, but Don’t Ignore Me’, in Puerto Rico.

 

1973
The first issue of Meditation at the United Nations Bulletin is published in New York, NY, USA.

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is presented with a trophy by Connecticut’s Mayor Frederick P. Lenz.

 

1978

Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function to celebrate Australia Day (Jan. 26th) at the United Nations in New York. The guest of honour is Ambassador Ralph L. Harry, the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations.

 

1980
Sri Chinmoy is a guest on The First Estate, broadcast on NBC-TV in New York, NY, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts a 94-pound dumbbell overhead from the ground — ‘clean and press‘ — using only his right arm, in New York, NY, USA.

 

1987
The first Sri Chinmoy ‘Rainbow Marathon’ is held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The event will be held on the 27th of each month.

 

1993

Sri Chinmoy meets with Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, at her offices in Manila, the Philippines.

 

1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Leticia Ramos Shahani, national senator for the Philippines, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and sister of President Ramos; and also meets with Shyamala Cowsjk, Ambassador of India to the Philippines, at the Manila Hotel in Manila, the Philippines.

 

1996

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (457) dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi at City Hall in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Sri Chinmoy is introduced by the Mayor of Pietermaritzburg, Omar Latiff, with opening remarks given by Ela Gandhi, Member of Parliament and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

 

1996
Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

1997
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the Sun Royal Hotel in  Kagoshima, Japan.

 

1997
Mt. Fuji Summit is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (533) at the Marriott Hotel in Cancún, Mexico.

 

2000
The Brazilian newspaper, Correio Braziliense (Brazilian Mail), reports that the ‘Peace Run’ inspired by Sri Chinmoy, runs 500 kilometres to honour the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil — the run ending at the Temple of Good Will in the capital, Brazilia.

 

2000
Sri Chinmoy completes his 11 millionth Soul-Bird drawing, in Brasilia, Brazil.

 

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

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy composes songs for the Mother — Janani Mirar — and for Sri Aurobindo — Jaya Bhagaban Sri Aurobindo — while looking at the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s portraits in the main meditation hall at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Read Si Chinmoy’s comments...

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy racewalks the morning 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in Bali, Indonesia. At the race, Sri Chinmoy offers a special prayer.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

 

2004

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

 

 

 

JANUARY 28TH

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Power, Occult Power and Will Power’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Heaven-Vision and Earth-Reality’, in Marvin Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answers a series of spiritual questions.

 

1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two short inspirational talks, entitled ‘Possibility-Seed’ and ‘Sorrow’, during meditations held at the United Nations in New York.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Achievement’, at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Choice’, at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy is honoured by his disciples at a special function celebrating his completion of 2,000 Bengali songs two days earlier, on January 26th.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy receives a congratulatory letter from the Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Trinity Church in Boston, MA, USA.

 

1988
Sri Chinmoy gives an organ recital at Harvard University at Memorial Church in Boston, MA, USA.

 

1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with his west-coast disciples during a stop-over at Los Angeles Airport on his way back from Bali to New York.

 

1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (485) in Shimin Bunka Hall, Kagoshima, Japan. It is the 16th of 50 concerts Sri Chinmoy dedicates to the 50th anniversary of India’s Independence.

 

2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Canada Award.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘With Me, In Me, For Me’, at the Orchid Garden Hotel, in Brunei Darussalam.

 

 

JANUARY 29TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy writes 50 poems in Puerto Rico that will subsequently be published by Aum Press, Puerto Rico, in 1974 as The Golden Boat, part 1. It is the first book in his new twenty-volume series.

 

1976
Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his artwork in Plaza de las Americas, Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico.

 

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’, 
at the Virginia Beach Convention Centre in Virginia Beach, VA, USA.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy meets with ultra-marathon runner Ted Corbitt.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation and concert for the Indian community, at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, NY, USA.

 

1992
At the invitation of New York State Governor Mario Cuomo, Sri Chinmoy offers the Opening Meditation at the Interfaith Celebration for the New York State Columbus Quincentenary, at the United Nations in New York. The Governor requests Sri Chinmoy to sit next to him on the dais.

 

1996

Sri Chinmoy presents the U Thant Peace Award to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,1st President of South Africa, and President of the African National Congress, at the ANC Headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (58) at the Holiday Inn in South Beach, Durban, South Africa.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy drives for one hour in Cancun, Mexico.

 

2000

   

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (581) in Santuario Dom Bosco, Brasilia, Brazil.

 

2001
Viet Nam is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy lifted 35 people, including the Executive Secretary of the Brunei Olympic Council. He also breaks his lifting record by lifting his 2,070th person from the seated position — surpassing his previous record of 2,058 lifts in the standing position — at the Orchid Garden Hotel in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.

 

 

 

JANUARY 30TH

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy tells four inspirational short stories, ‘Why the Masters Don’t Mix’, ‘The Foolish, the Clever and the Wise’, ‘The Aspirants return to the Ignorance-Sea’ and ‘Pleasing God in His Own Way’.

 

1979

Sri Chinmoy meets with Muhammad Ali for the third time, in New York, USA. The song ‘Greater than the Greatest’, composed by Sri Chinmoy, is sung in honour of the boxing champion.

 

1979
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function at the United Nations in New York to commemorate Australia’s 34th year as a founding member of the United Nations.

 

1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo marathon in a time of 5:20:03, in Flushing Meadows Park, NY, USA.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sings the word ‘Gratitude’ while creating Jharna-Kala artworks at Progress-Promise function hall in New York, NY, USA. The 20-minute cassette tape of the recording is handed out by Sri Chinmoy at his April 13th celebration function later that year.

 

1987

Sri Chinmoy lifts 7,063¾ lbs. with his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article…

 

1996
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jacob Zuma of the African National Congress for the first time in South Africa.

 

1997
A report about Sri Chinmoy’s recent presentation of the U Thant Peace Award to Dr. Ananda Guruge, the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the USA, is published in the Sinhala newspaper, Dinamina in Sri Lanka.

 

1999
In a short talk, Sri Chinmoy offers his gratitude to the soul of Nepal, during his brief visit to the country to attend a ceremony dedicating Nepal as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation. He also answers a number of questions.

 

2002
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Scientists and God’, at the Orchid Garden Hotel, Brunei Darussalam.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mari Alkatir, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the office of the Prime Minister in Dili, Timor-Leste.

 

2004

      

Sri Chinmoy is awarded the Medal of Freedom, Timor-Leste’s highest honour, from Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, in Dili, Timor-Leste. Sri Chinmoy is the first to receive this award. In return, Sri Chinmoy honours Dr. Alkitiri with the first World-Harmony-Dreamer Award. Sri Chinmoy then offers a Peace Concert attended by the Prime Minister, the President of the Parliament, the Chief Justice and other Parliamentary Leaders, Ministers and Ambassadors.

During earlier private meetings, Sri Chinmoy meets with Bishop Carlos Belo, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and other dignitaries at Hotel Timor in Dilli, Timor-Leste.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy performs a 270-lb. wrist curl, 30 times with each wrist, in Penang, Malaysia.

 

 

JANUARY 31ST

 

1974
Sri Chinmoy tells an inspirational story, entitled ‘The Master and the Mother Superior’.

 

1976

Sri Chinmoy holds his first 7-hour Public Meditation at All Angels’ Church, Manhattan, NY, USA.

 

1978
Sri Chinmoy offers a birthday tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at the United Nations in New York. ‘FDR’ was born on January 30, 1882.

 

1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (62) dedicated to US President Woodrow Wilson and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receiving Peace’, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.

 

1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (169) at Progress-Promise function hall in Queens, NY, USA.

 

1996
India’s Ambassador to the United States, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, writes an article in Bhavan’s Journal. Vol. 42, No.12, about Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert (440), which he attended two months earlier in Washington DC, USA. Sri Chinmoy asked the ambassador to introduce the concert.

 

1998
Sri Chinmoy writes his book, I am flying and flying and flying, in his own handwriting.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy meets with Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the Inauguration Ceremony of Nepal as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom–Nation. There, he also meets with Kirthi Nidhi Bista and Lokendra Bahadur Chand, both Former Prime Ministers. Also attending is the Speaker of the Upper House of the National Assembly. The ceremony at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, includes a trumpeting Elephant Welcome.

 

1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (558) at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

2004
Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Heart and Soul of Hinduism’ award from Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, the Indonesia Hinduism Society. The presentation is made by the acting chairman at Lembaga Dharma Duta in Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 people at the Huangshan Pine Golf And Country Club in Huangshan, China.

 

2006
Sri Chinmoy introduces push-ups into his morning exercise sessions — the day after lifting 270 pounds in the wrist curl. It is the first time he had done push-ups on a Christmas trip since 7 January 1986 in Kyoto, Japan, where he performed 2,230 push-ups continuously in 59 minutes and 50 seconds.

 

2008
Bob Dylan recites Sri Chinmoy’s poem ‘The Lock and the Key’ on the weekly one-hour satellite radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, which he hosts in the USA.