August 24
Sri Chinmoy’s students hold a parade in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, to celebrate his Jharna-Kala artworks achievements.
Sri Chinmoy holds an open air mediation with his students in the forest at Bear Mountain State Park, located on the west bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best long jump in the West of 3.71 metres at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day at Fox Lane High School, Bedford, NY, USA.
A mention of Sri Chinmoy’s Jhana Kala art gallery is noted by The New York Times in an article about the changing face of Madison Ave. in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best javelin throw in the West of 29.96 metres at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 children, members of the Omsk Choir from Siberia, Russia, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Zimbabwe is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates Aspiration-Temple at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including Pandit Uma Shankar Mishra, sitar player, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Exhibition Hall of the Herson Regional Artists’ Association in Herson, Ukraine.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Aurangzeb Khan, the Tallest Man in America (8’ 0”) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for peace at the closing ceremony of the World Harmony Run, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and performs 99 songs on the esraj at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Self-Transcendence Marathon in Rockland Lake State Park, Nyack, New York, NY, USA. Before the start of the race, he offers a prayer and gives a short talk about the marathon.
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