August 4
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Confidence’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honour of the ‘New York Road Runners Club’.
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th Birthday are read into the Congressional Record at the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sardar Dhillon, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, at the United Nations in New York. The photo of this meeting was chosen by Sri Chinmoy to be on the cover of his book ‘Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 53.’
Sri Chinmoy is named ‘Peace Ambassador in Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón of Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7040¼ lbs. using only his left arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (365) — the 27th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Russian Cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes the English translation of ‘August 15, 1945’, Dyulok Chariye, his epic 180-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo for his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Cambodia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy visits an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala artworks at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Dr. Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive-Director of UNICEF; Lindy Remigino, 100 m Olympic gold medallist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including several members of the family of the late Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist — Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin, two of Jesse Owens’ daughters, and his grandson, Stuart Rankin, Jr.; Ted Erikson, 3-time English Channel swimmer; Adolf Kiefer, 1936 Olympic gold medallist in backstroke; Willye White, Olympic silver medallist in the long jump and 4 x 100 m relay, at Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL, 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