June 25
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘The Significance of a Flower’, during the inauguration of ‘The Garland of Divinity’s Love’ flower store on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Seeker’s Four Lives’, at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (12:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Confidence’, at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Spirituality as an Art, at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction and Frustration’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Brian Gormley, Dean of New York School of Visual Arts and receives an Award of Appreciation, in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Bill Pearl, 5-time Mr. Universe; Al Oerter, 4-time Olympic gold medallist in discus; and Jim Smith, British Weightlifting Registrar, World Masters Weightlifting Champion, at his Body, Heart and Soul One-Arm Lift anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA. After his invited guests — including athletic and weightlifting champions: Sudhahota Carl Lewis and his parents Bill and Evelyn, Bill and Judy Pearl, Terry and Jan Todd, Al and Cathy Oerter, Jim Smith, Cliff and Mrs. Sawyer, Narada Michael and Anukampa Walden and others — have dinner at Annam Brahma restaurant, Sri Chinmoy begins the evening programme at Aspiration-Ground with a meditation and an opening prayer before the assembly of champions. Sudhahota Carl Lewis acts as the Master of Ceremonies for the event.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening (7:00 p.m.) Peace Concert with an organ recital to an audience of 3,000, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
A Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge connecting the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota, USA, is dedicated by the presidents of both city councils.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in the Shinjuku Kuritsu Kumin Citizen’s Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 14th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. He uses a cello as a drum, for the first time, beating it with both hands like an Indian tabla.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 44th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Education-Life’, and is also presented with the Peace Educator Award by Professor Lester Kurtz at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 16th of 48 concerts in his New Millennium Concert series — at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. During the concert, Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to Sudhahota Carl Lewis who joins him on stage as he sings a song in honour of the Olympic champion.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including professors from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Art Museum, in Harkov, Ukraine.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (8 p.m.) at the Riviera Theater in North Tonawanda, Buffalo, NY, USA. The highlight of the concert is Sri Chinmoy’s performance on a 1926 Wurlitzer band organ.
Sri Chinmoy lifts violist Yuri Bashmet and his orchestra, for a total of 22 people, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
About On This Day
January 1st, 2011, saw the launch of a special feature on the front page of Sri Chinmoy Reflections — On This Day — a day-by-day account of Sri Chinmoy’s achievements. The accompanying pages expand the theme further by linking specific dates and events to video, audio and literary resources from this and many other related websites, enabling the reader to explore, in a systematic way, the vast catalogue of information about Sri Chinmoy’s life.
Many years ago at Aspiration-Ground, there was a large blackboard that displayed the scores of tennis matches Sri Chinmoy had played. Each morning, before Sri Chinmoy arrived at the court, the board would be cleaned and the date of the new day would be written in chalk at the top. Then, in yearly order, a list of different activities Sri Chinmoy had accomplished or had participated in would follow. Every day a new list would appear, and very rarely would there be a day without something to report.
Just before starting play of his usual round of morning tennis, Sri Chinmoy could be seen walking slowly across towards the blackboard to carefully study the list, and many times he would comment on what had been written. No doubt it brought back many fond memories for him.
Since his arrival in the West in 1964, many disparate lists have been compiled – running times and athletic highlights; poems written and songs composed; concerts performed and lectures delivered; weights hoisted and people lifted; paintings completed and drawings sketched; meditations, meetings, peace initiatives and prayers – viewed altogether, they represent an impressive chronology of achievement that reads more like the combined biographies of several highly talented people rather than one individual.
It is by the dedicated efforts of many who have meticulously recorded these events, which form the narrative of Sri Chinmoy’s remarkable life, that we are able to look back across the decades to take in this grand overview. We are grateful to all those who have collected and preserved this information over the years.
It is hoped that this section will, in some small way, carry on this inspirational tradition.
— Animesh Harrington
The information in the following pages has been compiled from many sources – Sri Chinmoy Library, Sri Chinmoy Songs, Sri Chinmoy TV and Radio Sri Chinmoy; Sri Chinmoy Centre newsletters, magazines, periodicals1; and informational booklets2; newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV interviews; yearly calendars and index cards; as well as analog and digital recordings.
Bibliography:
1 AUM (monthly magazine)
Jharna-Kala (art quarterly magazine)
Meditation at the United Nations (monthly bulletin)
Anahata Nada (monthly newsletter)
2 A Galaxy of Luminaries, Agni Press, New York, 1978
Sri Chinmoy: The Student of Peace (second edition), Aum Publications, New York
Sri Chinmoy: Emissary of Oneness-Peace
Sri Chinmoy A Global Man of Peace
Sri Chinmoy Dreamer of World Peace, Agni Press, New York, 1998 & 2000
Sri Chinmoy A Oneness-World-Dreamer
Oneness-World Peace-Blossoms, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, 25th Anniversary
500 Compassion-Blessing-Blossoms