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1969
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Connecticut Sri Chinmoy Centre, in Wilton, CT, USA.
1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: The Fount of World Peace’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Hunger’, at the Graduates’ Memorial Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
1974
“I have been reading your book, The Garland of Nation-Souls, which I like very much. I, too, believe in meditation ... I really believe that in these days of turmoil and strife, we all need something like meditation ... You know, we have tried teaching something about this in our schools, but the only people who have made a real effort to teach this idea have been people from the East, such as yourself.” — Erskine Childers, President of Ireland (1974-1975)
Sri Chinmoy meets with Erskine Childers, the 4th President of Ireland (1973–1974), at 4 p.m., in the Presidential Palace at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives a spiritual talk, ‘I Pray, I Meditate’ in Woodrow Wilson Hall at Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. It is the first of 100 talks that Sri Chinmoy will deliver in 20 days and is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Before the talk at 9:30 p.m., Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert in the same venue — the first of 28 concerts he plans for July.
| I Pray, I Meditate | 9:30 p.m. | Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA | ||
This talk, the first of 100 lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered in 20 days, is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts the daughter of the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Princess Michaela von Habsburg. As well, Sri Chinmoy lifts her husband, the Duke of Alba, Eric Henry Alba-Teran d'Antin of Spain. Both lifts take place at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (232) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre race in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games held at Ericsson Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. Despite a hamstring injury, he records a time of 20.74 seconds.
1997
A photo of Sri Chinmoy lifting 7,000 lbs. is published in The Baltimore Chronicle, in Maryland, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy observes the first ‘Grandfather’s Day’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Arif Mardin, nine-time Grammy-Award music producer, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘A True Seeker’, at St. Xavier Auditorium, St. Francis Xavier School, 122 West 17th Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Gratitude | 5:30 a.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Do Not Know | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Dream | 3:50 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA |
| Security | 4:38 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 2-5) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (514) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 45th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy is selected to perform the daily ‘Changing of the Rose’ ceremony, symbolising the constant renewal of the peace process, at the National Palace, Peace Monument in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear in the Spiritual Life’, at Biblioteca Comunale, Piazzale Accursio, in Milan, Italy.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Theoretical Surrender and Practical Surrender | 8:37 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Satisfaction | 8:35 p.m. | P.S. 86 High School, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 6 & 7) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Donna Halper on ‘The Other Hour’, a radio program broadcast live in New York on radio station WRVR.
1983
Sri Chinmoy completes his epic 10,000-poem series, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames. At Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, he celebrates the occasion and writes the very last poem on a whiteboard Read article...
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (118) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy composes two songs for Ten Thousand Flower-Flames – one in English and one in Bengali – on the 5th anniversary of the completion of his poetry epic.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the World Telugu Conference and receives the Peace Award, at Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY, USA.
1993
Sixty-two thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by a reporter from the New York newspaper Newsday at the Sri Chinmoy 3,100-Mile Race in Jamaica, New York.
2000
Kuwait is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
The German newspaper Schweriner Volkszeitung reports on Sri Chinmoy’s two-arm dumbbell lift of 400 lbs.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to United Nations Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at the United Nations in New York.
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JULY 4TH | |
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1972
Sri Chinmoy visits Vivekananda Rock on Wellesley Island, Thousand Island Park, NY, USA, to honour the 70th anniversary of the passing (4 July 1902) of his revered spiritual predecessor in America, Swami Vivekananda. Sri Chinmoy meditates at the very spot where Swami Vivekananda had once meditated and entered into Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Strength’, at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds his first 13-hour public meditation, offered in honour of America’s Bicentennial, for the Soul of America, at the 72nd Street Bandshell in Central Park, New York, NY, USA. The meditation begins at midnight on July 4th and ends late in the afternoon. It is the first overnight event the Police Department had ever permitted in Central Park.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Compassion-Height and Justice-Light | 8:05 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Desire | 8:05 p.m. | Informal Gathering at a Private House, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 8 & 9) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1980
The News of India reports on ‘A Joyous Meeting’ between Sri Chinmoy and Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
1994
Sri Chinmoy answers questions from his disciples after a special meditation for American Independence Day.
1994
Sri Chinmoy’s first joke video ‘Humour: My Only Saviour’ is shown in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy and his students observe the Fourth of July at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy sinks 863 baskets out of 1,300 basketball throws, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy opens the July 4th celebration in lower Manhattan with a short meditation and his students perform several of his songs about America.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert in honour of the Bengali cultural community worldwide, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also lifts 18 Bangladeshi nationals, as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme.
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JULY 5TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Miracles’, at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| The Shortcut, the Shorter Cut, the Shortest Cut | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Happiness and Unhappiness | 9:05 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School, Hollis, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 10 & 11) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1980
Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for his disciples in the backyard of his home in Jamaica, NY, USA. Throughout a constant hour-long deluge of rain, he did not stop the meditation.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (195); gives a talk, entitled ‘You Are Our All’; and recites 5 peace poems, at the State Sports Centre in Homebush, Sydney, Australia.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (412) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts the children of Jacob Zuma, Executive Deputy President of South Africa, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Two Instruments: Impurity and Purity’, at the Indian Cultural Society in London, England.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Human Reality and Divine Reality | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Am Grateful | 9:20 p.m. | Unitarian Church, Flushing, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 12 & 13) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 prominent Australians, including Mt. Everest climbers Greg Mortimer and Lincoln Hall, at the Town Hall in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Others among those lifted, are three TV reporters, from Channel 9, Channel 10 and SBS, who each interview Sri Chinmoy.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,250-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Zambia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including staff members of the United Nations Development Programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts former President of Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Spirituality’, at ABF Huset, Sveavägen, in Stockholm, Sweden.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Aspiring Life’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.
1975
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA. On display are seven thousand paintings — just part of the 27,000 works Sri Chinmoy had completed in an eight-month period.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Austerity | 7:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Smile, Love and Claim | 9:15 p.m. | Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, USA |
These talks (nos. 14 & 15) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (9) at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 50 lb. using one arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (196), delivers a talk, entitled ‘I Need’, and recites 5 peace poems, at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ.
1990
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, including one finger painting, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Chile is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in Barcelona, Spain.
2004
Sri Chinmoy opens the week-long Fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions at the Universal Forum for Cultures in Barcelona, Spain, with a silent meditation and a performance of his music on the esraj. Watch the video...
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for Prabhu Jagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 8TH | |
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1975
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Willow, Woodstock, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks:
| Imagination | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Lifelong Friends | 12:35 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
| Aspiration | 9:30 p.m. | Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 16-18) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centro De Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The 75 paintings fill the entire museum.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening silent meditation for an international gathering of several hundred Hindu leaders, on the final day of the 10th World Hindu Conference, held at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (156) at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, delivers a talk, entitled ‘Stupidity, Insecurity and Fear’, and recites 6 peace poems, at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, NZ.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (355) — the 17th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy sets to music ‘August 15, 1945’, his epic 194-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo on his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 9TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at ABF Huset in Stockholm, Sweden.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Realisation | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| A Fleeting Life | 11:25 a.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
| I Wish to be Free | 3:20 p.m. | Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Experience and Realisation | 9:20 p.m. | North Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 19-22) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1988
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Aspiration-Ground’.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 prominent New Zealanders, including Rod Dixon, 1972 Olympic bronze medallist in 1,500m, and 1983 New York City Marathon winner, at the Regent Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand.
1993
The US state of New Jersey is proclaimed a Sri Chinmoy Peace State
1994
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Conference on World Religions at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.
2004
An article about Sri Chinmoy at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona is published in The Indian Express.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ganesh Hindu Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.
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JULY 10TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret of Joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden.
1976
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives a spiritual talk:
| I Am a Born Prayer | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
This talk (no. 23) is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1982
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receptivity’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. He also completes a 7-mile solo run in 54 min. 53 sec., as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ series, in Boston, MA, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy begins his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy completes 7,000 poems in one year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (119) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993<
Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre race (15.29 sec.), 600-gm javelin (27.26m), 1-kg discus (23.70m) and 4-kg shot put (8.65m) at Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Victory Field in Forest Park, New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘No Expectation’, at his home in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
2000
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting is published in the ‘Sport Around the World’ section of DELO, one of the main daily newspapers in Slovenia.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts five members of the US Congress: Neil Abercrombie, Congressman from Hawaii; Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York; Sanford Bishop, Congressman from Georgia; Benjamin A. Gilman, Congressman from New York; Ed Towns, Congressman from New York, at the Rayburn Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.
2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in, in Kamakura, Japan.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Capacity’, at St. Thomas’ Church Hall in Vasteras, Sweden.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love, Service and Transformation’, in White Plains, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on National Public Radio and broadcast nationwide throughout the USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| You are Spiritual | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Spirituality | 10:00 p.m. | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 24-25) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 5 miles in a time of 38:11 (7:38/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at the ‘Runners are Smilers’ race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 100m in the West (13.67 sec.), and 200m (29.69 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field, in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (356) — the 18th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Josephine Davis, President of York College — a branch of the City University of New York, based in Queens — at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1997
The Guyanese & Caribbean International Voice publishes an article about Sri Chinmoy’s recent meeting with Mother Teresa in New York.
2000
Sri Chinmoy bench presses a 700-lb. dumbbell, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
The Hindu — an online Indian newspaper — reports on Sri Chinmoy opening the week-long Parliament of the World’s Religions with a silent meditation in Barcelona, Spain.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace ConcertSengen Jinja shrine in Fujiyama, Japan. On the same day, he composes the song, ‘He Mount Fuji He Mount Fuji’.
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JULY 12TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Learn’, at Southampton College Theatre, Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Illumination | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Expectation | 1:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 26-27) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a 2-mile race, placing third in the men’s 40-49 age group in a time of 15 min. 51 sec., at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. Twenty minutes later, he runs a 5-mile race in a time of 43 min. 33 sec.
1985
Sri Chinmoy meets folk singer Richie Havens when he visits the Madal Circus practice in Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy composes his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (515) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 46th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada. He is welcomed by Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall.
2006
Sri Chinmoy composes his 13,000th Bengali song Shakpura Shakpura Purba Shakpura Gram during an evening function with his students at the Kamakura Park Hotel in Kamakura, Japan.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA.
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JULY 13TH | |
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1970
My Ivy League Leaves is the first book published by Chinmoy Publishing Company, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy completes his 1,000-poem volume, entitled Europe-Blossoms, which he began on 21 June 1974. The poems were all written during his trip to Europe.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘You do not Know, He does not Know, I do not Know’, at the Aum Center for Self-Realization, Yoga Center, in Ellicottville, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Happiness’, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives seven spiritual talks:
| Obedience was My Way of Life | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| You and Your Perfection | 9:35 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Yoga and Oneness | 9:37 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Hatha Yoga | 9:39 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Intuition | 9:41 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Perfection | 9:43 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| If You Have, Then Come to Me | 9:45 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 28-34) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
2000
Mali is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
France is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 113 pilots in a single day, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, at Boeing Field Auditorium in Seattle, WA, USA. An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks also takes place at the same venue.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Sri Chinmoy also offers a bouquet in a soulful tribute at the Peace Memorial.
2006
Sri Chinmoy meets with Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, and presents him with a Jharna-Kala painting at City Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 14TH | |
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1973
Sri Chinmoy tells three spiritual stories — Inner Meditation and Outer Vibration, The Yogi's Advice and With Hope-Food I Exist — subsequently published in the book, Is God Really Partial?
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks:
| I am Privileged | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I am Helpless | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Get Up! | 5:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Don’t Suffer! | 5:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Disciples, Followers, Admirers and Well-Wishers | 8:40 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA |
| Reliance | 8:53 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 35-40) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1985
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 60-lb. lift using only one-arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy composes words for Mozart’s ‘Minuet in G’ – the first time his words are set to classical music, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy wins a 100m race in 15.47 sec. and places 2nd in the 200m event in 31.78 sec., in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (357) — the 19th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,000-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise and a 2,000 lb. lift using a standing calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 55 people, including numerous professors at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy plays 51 of his own melodies on the sitar. The recording of this first-ever performance on the sitar is later released on a CD entitled ‘Impossibility Surrenders’.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan, where he presents one of his Jharna-Kala paintings to Michiko Sato, daughter of the late Head Priest Mitsuo Sato of Kōtoku-in Temple.
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JULY 15TH | |
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1968
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘I Know What to Do’, at the Retailer’s Centre in Haro Rey, Puerto Rico.
1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Garland of Nation-Souls’, to the United Nations World Youth Congress at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Experiences’, at Friends House in Brighton, UK.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks:
| It Is Not Enough | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Awareness, Devotedness, Soulfulness and Selflessness | 12:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
| I Do Not Imitate; I Do Not Initiate | 10:00 p.m. | North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 41-43) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including Therese Rossides, wife of Zenon Rossides, former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy honours his former boss at the Indian Consulate, the veteran Indian diplomat Mr. Lakhan Mehrotra, by lifting his daughter Aparna at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
1992
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first sixteen of sixty-one traditional Sanskrit chants, in celebration of his upcoming 61st birthday on 27 August 1992. He completes the songs — later published in the songbook, I Prayerfully Bow — on 9 August.
1994
Sri Chinmoy completes 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 16TH | |
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1966
Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for a nine-day visit to Puerto Rico.
1967
Sri Chinmoy gives his first radio talk on Radio Station WITA (‘Imparcial’). He speaks for eight minutes on the subject, ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’
1968
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Temas del momento,‘Themes of the moment’, a TV programme directed by Mr Evelio Otero, in Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Obedience’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK.
1976
“We want only peace, peace. You are praying for peace. I know what you and the Group are doing for us. I know it, I can feel it.” — Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981)
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, and receives the UN Silver Medallion, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks:
| Why do I Hide? | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I am In Preparation | 12:20 p.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
| Humility and Compassion | 6:25 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
| Obedience | 6:45 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
| I Need More | 9:05 p.m. | Kean College, Union, NJ, USA |
| Salvation, Liberation, Realisation, Perfection and Satisfaction | 10:00 p.m. | In transit to Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 44-49) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1979
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Will Stone Collection in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy runs with his friend Alexandr Gorelik from the Russian Foreign Ministry in a special invitational 100-metre race during the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Queens, New York. He records a time of 15.07 seconds though, unfortunately, he injures himself and is unable to run again for eleven months.
1999
Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial for the passing of his dear sister Lily (27 Oct circ 1920–16 May 1999) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.
2004
An article about Sri Chinmoy and the World's Parliament of Religions is published in Thikana, the most widely circulated Bangla newspaper.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Muhammad Ali’s daughter Khaliah Ali at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a short esraj concert.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy juggles three balls over 450 times in London, UK.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK.
1976
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nine spiritual talks:
| Charity | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Examination | 8:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Gifts | 3:00 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Who is the Winner? | 3:05 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Two Trains | 3:10 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Who is Knocking? | 3:15 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Disobedience and Penalty | 3:20 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Secrets | 3:25 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Something is Missing | 9:10 p.m. | American University, Washington, DC, USA |
These talks (nos. 50-58) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed in Bengali by journalist Kamal Ashish Chakravarty from ‘Voice of America’ in Washington, DC, USA. The taped programme, which includes a short esraj performance by Sri Chinmoy, is later broadcast on Hindi and Bengali radio stations throughout Bangladesh and India, and is heard by Sri Chinmoy’s family in Pondicherry.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
1982
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first in a series of chalk poems, which he writes on the green scoreboard at the side of his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. He refers to the tennis court for the first time as ‘Illumination-Ground’. (Later, he will give it the permanent name of ‘Aspiration-Ground’.)
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (76), dedicated to Dag Hammarskjöld, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Who Can Grant Me Peace?’, at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (77) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Life’, at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert (358) with an organ performance — the 20th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.
2000
70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
2004
A photo of Sri Chinmoy is featured in an article published in The Vancouver Sun about the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
2004
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy gives his first esraj concert, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks:
| Off the Path | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Disobedience is the Order of the Day | 6:55 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| The Red Stoplight | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Yesterday was the Time | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| To be Divinely Great | 12:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| If You Want to be Great | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Gratitude | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| In the Human World | 7:00 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Our Beloved Supreme | 7:05 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| God’s Compassion Flows, God’s Justice Grows | 7:10 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| To Live in the Desire-World | 7:15 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I was a Student of Prayer | 7:20 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Wanted to Tell God | 7:25 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Lived Only Twice | 7:30 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Shall Sing Today | 7:35 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| The Purpose of Human Life | 7:40 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| What More Can I Give You? | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Divine Pilgrimage | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Lord of My Life, Friend of My Heart | 8:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 59-77) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 3 and Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (78) and delivers a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland.
1987
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed about his weightlifting by Marty Gallagher, editor and publisher of Strength Review Magazine, accompanied by Hugh Cassidy, former world powerlifting champion. The interview takes place before Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (120) at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meditates and offers a concert performance at the annual puja in the Geeta Temple, Elmhurst, NY, USA. He is also presented with the Purushottam Mas Peace Award.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Art Gallery in London, UK.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Puerto Rico’, under the auspices of the YMCA of Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, at the Grand Hall, Caxton Hall, in London, UK.
1976
Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an ‘Honorary Resident of Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Acceptance | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Empty Moments | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Do You Want to be Perfect? | 7:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Where are They? | 10:15 p.m. | Co-op City, Bronx, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 78-81) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon concert (4 p.m.) at the ‘Center for the Light’ in New Marlborough, MA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Champaklal-ji from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. Champaklal-ji was one of the closest attendant-disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (79) at Retretti Concert Hall in Punkaharju, Finland.
1996
Sri Chinmoy completes 5,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 480-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift (240 lbs. with both arms simultaneously) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 2,100-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise machine in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Yoga?’ and an explanation of ‘Bhakti Yoga’, at the home of Sita (Mrs. Maria Teresa Gonzalez) in Rio Pedro, Puerto Rico.
1967
Sri Chinmoy appears on television for the first time. He is interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks:
| It is Never Too Late | 6:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| God Has Made This World Round | 6:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Am I a Giver? | 6:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Is it My Fate? | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| What am I Doing? | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Without Man and Without God | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Heart-to-Heart Talk | 8:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Never Make an Outer Promise | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Struggle | 12:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Special Messages | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Transformation | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Why Do I Not Share? | 12:50 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Substitutes | 1:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Now | 1:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Kept Praying | 1:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Newness | 5:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Why are You in a Hurry? | 5:10 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Dreaming and Planning | 5:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Are You the Lamp of God? | 9:40 p.m. | Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1981
Sri Chinmoy composes his famous song, ‘Everest-Aspiration!’ — which coincides with the 4th anniversary of the completion of his 100 Everest-Aspiration talks — in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago; and Beverly Owens, daughter of Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist, at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, IL, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (198), recites four peace poems and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, in Arie Crown Theater, at McCormick Place, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games held at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Grenada is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
n exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Payton Jordan, US Track and Field Olympian and coach, holder of over 60 world records in Masters sprinting, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives talks on ‘Karma Yoga’ and ‘Jnana Yoga’ at the home of Lakshmi and Narayan (Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Elvira), on San Jose Street in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Dedication’, at the University of Reykjavik, in Reykjavik, Iceland – completing his third European lecture tour – later published in My Rose Petals, Part 4.
1974
Sri Chinmoy first plays the Indian flute, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
1981
An article in the New York-based daily newspaper Newsday reports on the contribution Sri Chinmoy’s “Run and Become” philosophy has had on the worldwide running community.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1,500 metres (6 min.15 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (359) — the 21st of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert (413) in the Madison Building at the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a& Peace Concert (414) at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.
2000
Niger and Panama are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Quincy Jones, musician, composer, arranger and producer, at his home in Los Angeles; and later lifts Lee Underwood, musician, biographer, music critic and author, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Northwest Auditorium at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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1966
Excerpt from an informal talk given at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Puerto Rico, on September 29, 1974: “Seven years ago, when I was totally unknown to the seekers’ world, it was Puerto Rico that saw something in me. Call it Light, call it Peace, call it Bliss... That is why it opened its heart’s door and welcomed me to be of dedicated service to the Supreme here.
As long as I am on earth and when I am gone, when the soul leaves the body-cage, I shall remember Puerto Rico with my heart’s eternal gratitude and my soul’s concern-light.” — Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Aum Centre — later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre — in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It is legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.)
1973
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the seventh anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presents President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2.
1975
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Action’, in the Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations, at the United Nations, New York.
1977
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
1981
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1981
Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (10) at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1999
Sri Chinmoy sets a new weightlifting record by raising 200 lbs. with each arm separately, using a seated double-arm machine, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy answers a question about Creativity and Spirituality, in New York, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.
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1944
Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joins the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stays for the next twenty years before coming to the West. His eldest brother Hriday had already left the family home in Chittagong almost twelve years earlier to join the Ashram. On this day, all seven children of Shashi Kumar and Yogamaya Ghosh are reunited.
1952
A twenty-year-old Chinmoy competes in track and field events, including the pole vault, on Sports Day at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
1971
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St. Xavier High School, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for his students at a picnic area in Hidden Valley Park, near Woodstock, New York. He offers everyone bags of prasad containing 100 items in honour of the recent completion of his 100 ‘Everest-Aspiration’ talks.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1987
Sri Chinmoy takes a group of children on a trip from New York to Niagara Falls. During the long bus ride, the children ask him a number of questions and he, in turn, asks each of them several questions. These are later published in a book entitled, Niagara Falls versus Children’s Rise.
1988
Sri Chinmoy performs a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 champion runners and athletes, including Sudhahota Carl Lewis, 9-time Olympic gold medallist; Butch Reynolds, Olympic gold and silver medallist, 400m; and Jim Hines, Olympic gold medallist 100m, at the ‘The Morning of Champion-Hearts Supreme’ at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (360) — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy writes thirty-eight poems in tribute to John F. Kennedy, Jr. (25 Nov. 1960-16 Jul. 1999) — one for each year of his life on earth. The poems are later published in John Kennedy: The World-Treasure-Home.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.
2003
Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.
2004
India Post, published in America, reports on Sri Chinmoy’s involvement in the fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, Spain.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA.
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1968
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Meditation’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1975
Sri Chinmoy leads the first National Day of Prayer Observance at the United Nations in New York.
1992
The Aletsch Glacier in Valais, Switzerland, is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Glacier.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (361) — the 23rd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Bayard Taylor School in New York, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy receives a message of congratulations from Mother Teresa, Founder, Missionaries of Charity, soon after his Peace Concerts at the Library of Congress and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (516) in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 47th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Peru and Swaziland are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
An article about Sri Chinmoy at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona is published in New York Newsday.
2005
Sri Chinmoy visits Long Island Sound in New York, NY, USA, for a special ceremony in remembrance of his elder brother Mantu who had passed away earlier in the year at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry India.
2005
Sri Chinmoy announces the completion of his 15 millionth Soul-Bird drawing to his students during a boat trip from World’s Fair Marina, Queens, to Long Island Sound, in New York, NY, USA. He also tells stories about his wrestling experiences of his youth while at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy leaves Puerto Rico to return to New York.
1975
An article published in The New York Times, reports on the ceremony for the National Day of Prayer (24 July) opened by Sri Chinmoy at the UN Church Centre of the United Nations in New York.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a Concert at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (592) at the Landmark Community Center in Port Washington, NY, USA. At the concert, he recites 20 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
2005
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best lift of 1,200 lbs. using a double dumbbell bench press (600 lbs. in each hand), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee and his wife Sanghamitra, one of India’s leading vocalists, at the ’Oneness, Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon’ function at Aspiration–Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1967
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Students, Devotees and Disciples’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1975
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at 7:30 p.m. on the Greenwich Civic Center, Greenwich, CT, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy composes his 13,000th spiritual song, — which also happens to be his 8,000th Bengali song, ‘Phukai Amara Jibana Samare’ — in Jamaica, NY, USA. The words to the other 5,000 songs are mostly written in English, with some French and other languages.
2006
Sri Chinmoy holds a celebration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, for his 13,000 Bengali songs, which he had completed earlier in the month while on a visit to Japan.
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1977
Sri Chinmoy and his students perform a concert of spiritual music in the auditorium of Public School 86, at the intersection of Parsons Blvd and 87th Ave, Jamaica, NY, USA.
1981
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday are read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.
1981
The Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix — 31 races over 31 days — begins, in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday. Sri Chinmoy runs 440 yards (402.3 m) in a time of 1 min. 21.1 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs 7 miles solo in a time of 52:58 (a 7:34/mile pace) in Westerly, and offers a concert at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ tour. During the run, he records unofficial personal bests times for 4 miles (30:21), 5 miles (38:07), 6 miles (45:47) and 10 kilometres (47:11).
1982
The Governor of Rhode Island proclaims Sri Chinmoy Day and awards Sri Chinmoy honorary citizenship in the state. Providence and four other cities issue proclamations.
1985
The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1994
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. More than 400 people come to celebrate his peace-bird project, which he calls ‘My Three Million Heart-Bird-God-Manifestation-Songs’. Events include, silent meditation, musical performances, a play and a huge meal.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 31st anniversary of his first bamboo straight flute performance — in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
A tribute to Sri Chinmoy is read into the Congressional Record by Hon. Gary L. Ackerman of New York in the House of Representatives, in Washington, DC, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA..
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1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Joy’, at the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, in NewYork.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs 2 miles in a time of 14 min. 33 sec. (7:16/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy hosts a reception for Vinay Verma, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (233) at the Bösendorfer Center in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (362) — the 24th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 professors at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Great Drikung Kagyu Yogi, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy achieves an 800-lb. lift using a seated one-arm lift at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy gives a lecture entitled ‘Tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld’, on the birth anniversary of the UN’s second Secretary-General (b. 29 July 1905), in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Consul General of India in Chicago, Mr. Pran Nevile, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Chicago. IL, USA.
1979
The first Sri Chinmoy Triathlon is held in Groton, CT, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best in the West for 800 metres (2:47) on the road at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on 150th Street in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Seventy-five of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala, ‘Fuente de Arte’, paintings are exhibited (8-29 July) for the first time in Latin America at Centro de Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Joe Franklin, TV talk show host of the ‘Joe Franklin Show’, and tapes an interview with him in Secaucus, NJ, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, where he meets with Olympic Relay champions Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh, at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song, entitled ‘The New York Games’, for the occasion.
1995
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre event at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games in a time of 18.56 seconds, at Victory Field, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1999
Kyrgyzstan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Addwitiya Roberta Flack in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Kristio Wahyono, Consul-General of Indonesia to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 6 planes and a glider at Brookhaven Airport on Long Island, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy’s writings begin to appear regularly in El Mundo in Puerto Rico under the heading ‘Una Pausa en el Dia’. Sri Chinmoy’s words are translated into Spanish by Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro).
1975
Sri Chinmoy holds a Joy Day at Old Mill Farm in Harrison, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the first anniversary of the Blue Centre with a mediation and gives a special message to the Centre members.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1979
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA.
1981
Remarks about Sri Chinmoy’s 50th Birthday are read into the US Congressional Record by the Hon. Benjamin S. Rosenthal of New York in the House of Representatives.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 lbs. using one arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,500 lbs. using a standing calf raise at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 boxing champions, including Don Lalonde, WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a talk about boxing, which he dedicates to the legendary boxer Joe Louis, ‘The Brown Bomber’.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Hollis Conway, 1988 Olympic high jump silver medallist, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (363) — the 25th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Patience’, at All Angels’ Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the final of 28 concerts given in July as part of his ‘Everest-Aspiration’ series – at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs 200 metres in 33.6 seconds — his personal best time in America — during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
The Starr-Camargo Bridge linking the USA with Mexico across the Rio Grande, from Rio Grande City in Texas to Camargo, Tamaulipas, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge during the 1991 ‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
1993
Sri Chinmoy observes his astrological birthday with a morning meditation, during which he walks up and down the tennis court very slowly three times, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (364) — the 26th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy lifts an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Founder and President of the Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and also lifts him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – at Aspiration Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He warms up by lifting solid iron plates (inliding apparatus) weighing 800 lbs.