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1971
Sri Chinmoy answers questions on the topic of Purity at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Connecticut, USA.
1973
The first ‘Sunrise Meditation’ recorded by Sri Chinmoy is broadcast on the Dave Herman Show on WNEW Radio in New York at 7:10 a.m. During the two-minute segment, Sri Chinmoy does a brief reading and the background music is by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. The show is scheduled to be broadcast every weekday morning at sunrise.
1973
Sri Chinmoy answers questions on the topic of Purity at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Connecticut, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Voice of Silence’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1976
An article on Sri Chinmoy’s seven-hour meditation (held 31 January) appears in The New York Times.
1977
Sri Chinmoy inspires the formation of a United Nations Meditation Group in Geneva, Switzerland.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives a short inspirational talk, entitled ‘Now is the Only Time’, during a meditation he holds at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University. Later, at Annam Brahma restaurant, he signs copies of the new booklet, A Galaxy of Luminaries.
1980
Sri Chinmoy race-walks a solo marathon in a time of 6:01:27 (13:48/mile pace) on a three-mile course near his home in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Food and God’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1981
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Sri Chinmoy runs the 2nd Annual Inspiration Marathon in a time of 5:22:11 (12:17/mile pace), in Hampton Beach, NH, USA. The course is fast and flat — a favourite among runners, as 27 men and 1 woman qualify for the Boston Marathon, and a total of 40 PBs are recorded.
1986
Sri Chinmoy runs the Runners are Smilers 2-mile race in a time of 17:57 (8:58/mile pace) at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (293) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers the ‘U Thant Peace Award’ to Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal at his official residence, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Iceland and the Heart of Tanzania Awards.
2002
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to his dear friend Aleksandr Razvin in a talk at the Orchid Garden Hotel in Brunei Darussalam.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 Australian residents at the Watermark Hotel at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert at the Sheraton Mirage at Main Beach on the Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
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The iconic American TV game show ‘Jeopardy’ features a question about U Thant Island, opposite the United Nations in the East River, New York, NY, USA. In 1977, members of ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’ leased it from New York State and unofficially renamed it after the third UN Secretary-General U Thant. On 7 October 1982, the island was officially recognised as U Thant Island.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the United Nations in New York.
1974
Sri Chinmoy completes 200 poems in 22 hours — from 12:01 a.m. to 10:01 p.m. — (published in parts 2, 3, 4 and 5) and then in the next few minutes spontaneously dictates a further 8 poems (published in part 6) as part of his series The Golden Boat, in Jamaica, New York. The 200 poems are printed in four volumes by noon the following day. (Part 1, also containing 50 poems, was written a few days earlier on 29 January.)
1979
Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations sponsors a special programme to pay respects to Nelson Rockefeller who passed away on 26 January. Sri Chinmoy opens the tribute with a short meditation and meets with distinguished speakers John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City and Jacob Javits, Senator from New York
1979
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Sri Chinmoy meets with John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, at the United Nations in New York.
1979
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Sri Chinmoy meets with Jacob Javits, Senator from New York, at the United Nations in New York.
1982
Sri Chinmoy and the meditation group at the United Nations hold a centennial tribute to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN. The programme also includes the performance by the meditation group singers of two songs dedicated by Sri Chinmoy to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (63) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Message of Peace’, at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Yehudi Menuhin: O Soul-Smile Rare’ in preparation for his meeting with the Maestro the next day.
1996
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off the coast of Queensland in north-eastern Australia is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Xiao Wu Nan (Woolf Shaw), a Deputy Minister in the Chinese Government and China’s Vice-Chairman for Social, Economic and Cultural Communication. Mr. Shaw presents Sri Chinmoy with two Chinese scroll paintings, at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘God: The Supreme Actor, World: the Divine Audience’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, UN Secretariat, at the United Nations in New York.
1974
Sri Chinmoy gives a TV interview, which is later broadcast over cable television in New York, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 4,000 paintings since beginning his Jharna-Kala artworks just over 6 weeks earlier. To celebrate the occasion, he holds a function at his Connecticut Centre, where around 150 of his acrylic paintings are shown on an opaque projector.
1976
Sri Chinmoy’s instructions on ‘Concentration, Meditation, Contemplation’ are read out at a meeting of his meditation group at the UN, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations, New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy holds a special morning meditation at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honour of the great Brazilian footballer Pelé. Though he played for most of his career with the Brazilian team Santos FC (1956–1974), Pelé also played for New York Cosmos (1975–1977).
1987
Sri Chinmoy attends a press conference for the first-ever global Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York. NY, USA. Also interviewed are Olympic track and field champion Sudarhota Carl Lewis and the Executive Director of the Peace Run Shambhu Neil Vineberg.
1991
Sri Chinmoy plays the piano in concert at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin at the Rihga Royal Hotel in New York City, NY, USA. Earlier in the day, Sri Chinmoy composes the words and music to a song in the Maestro’s honour, ‘Yehudi Menuhin’ and sets music to two of Yehudi Menuhin’s quotations: ‘I Have Never Resigned Myself’, and ‘My Life Has Been Spent In Creating Utopias’.
1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at the Palace of Kings of Majorque in Perpignan, France.
1995
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Friday night meditation for seekers, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Agung Rai Museum in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
2007
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regent Holiday Inn in Cha-Am, Thailand.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers two lectures, entitled ‘Two God-Instruments’ at 3:30 p.m. followed by questions and answers, and ‘Consciousness and Immortality’ at 7:30 p.m. followed by questions and answers in Room 426 of the Marvin Center at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers eleven short inspirational aphorisms during a meditation he holds at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy accepts 25 seekers from New Jersey to join his spiritual path and forms the Green Centre. At the inauguration, Sri Chinmoy speaks about the spiritual significance of the colour green.
1978
Sri Chinmoy holds a morning meditation at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York. In the evening, he offers a public esraj concert at Public School 86, where, he also plays the harpsichord and paints a number of artworks.
1979
The Meditation Group Choir performs Sri Chinmoy’s song for Nelson Rockefeller, as well as the Parting song, for his widow, Happy Rockefeller, at the Rockefeller family church, Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Mount Pleasant, New York.
1980
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at Scotia Square in Halifax, NS, Canada.
1980
The Meditation Group at the United Nations presents a programme in honour of Sri Lanka, which is attended by the Ambassador of Sri Lanka, Nadarajah Balasubramaniam.
1992
Sri Chinmoy reads a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev, which was hand-delivered on 4 February by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
1992
Sri Chinmoy honours Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, with the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ Award by lifting him in the garden tent behind Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy lifts 1992 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Robert Zmelik from the Czech Republic, in the garden tent at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (327) at the Ramada Inn, in East Elmhurst, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Bangladesh, the Heart of Czech Republic, and the Heart of Zimbabwe Awards.
2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks opens at Hotel Equatorial in Penang, Malaysia.
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1967
Sri Chinmoy gives his Sunday afternoon talk on Yoga and answers spiritual questions at the AUM Centre in New York.
1971
Sri Chinmoy holds a meditation for the students of ‘Yoga of Westchester’, a centre for hatha yoga run by Sarama Minoli in Westchester County, New York, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy gave a talk, entitled ‘The Golden Boat’, at a celebration of his completion of 208 poems, in New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy composes 7 songs dedicated to the United Nations.
1978
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Sri Chinmoy presents his 300 published books to the Harvard Divinity School Library, Cambridge, MA, USA, which are accepted by Dean Krister Stendahl& and the librarian, Peter Oliver. The ceremony takes place in the penthouse of Hilles Library at Radcliffe College, where a number of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings are also on display.
1982
Sri Chinmoy and the meditation group at the United Nations host a special meditation for the diplomatic community, at which Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Meditation’, and answers questions.
1984
The 5th Annual Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Marathon is held in Hampton, NH, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with King Goodwill Zwelithini, leader of the Zulu people of South Africa, in Durban last month, is reported in Asia Online, a weekly publication from New York, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy gives a piano performance in honour of Franz Schubert’s 200th Birth Anniversary, in Jamaica, New York, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy speaks about his eldest brother Hriday’s song ‘Tumi Je Hao Se Hao’ at the Nexus Resort Karambunai, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Hriday Ranjan Ghosh wrote the original Bengali poem in honour of Sri Aurobindo, circa 1933, and Sri Chinmoy, composed the melody, circa 1966/67.
2004
Sri Chinmoy welcomes His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta and his family who travelled to Bali to visit him during his stay on the island. Four private meetings with the King follow on the 7th (with his family), 12th, 14th, and 15th of February, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy appears on the 12:00 noon news on the Dick Bertel Show, Channel 3, WTIC-TV, in Hartford, CT, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at Pace Memorial United Methodist Church, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at All Angels’ Church in New York City, NY, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy runs the 4th Annual Inspiration Marathon in a time of 5:56:59, in Hampton, NH, USA. The marathon serves as a qualifying run for the Boston Marathon — resulting in 75 qualifiers from more than 300 finishers.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy joins President Ronald Reagan, various senators and congressmen, and spiritual and political leaders from around the world as a guest at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Hilton Hotel’s International Ballroom, Washington, DC, USA. Mr. Douglas Coe — leader of the behind-the-scenes ‘Friendship House’, which did the major logistical and financial work for the event — invited Sri Chinmoy to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, after he attended a Sri Chinmoy Peace Meditation programme in the House of Representatives in the Fall of 1985.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (64) at the US Department of Commerce Auditorium in Washington, DC, USA. Sri Chinmoy dedicates the concert to President Reagan, in honour of the President’s birthday (b. February 6, 1911).
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 200 lbs. using only his right arm in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (217) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1997
A report appears in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt General Newspaper) about Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Mayrhofen in Zillertal, Austria, in the summer of 1993 to inaugurate Zillertalbahn as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Railway.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Slovakia Award.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 33 Malaysian residents in Sabah, Malaysia.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert held in honour of Bali’s eight Hindu Kings, at the initiative of the Muslim King, His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta (Central Java, Indonesia), held at the Bali Convention Centre in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 notable Indonesian people, at the Bali Convention Centre in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. They include Indonesian Kings — the Muslim King of Surakarta Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII and members of his Royal family; and eight Hindu Balinese Kings — the King of Ubud, Tjokorda Gde Agung Suyasa; the King of Mengwi, Anak Agung De Agung; the King of Klungkung, Dr. Cokorda Gde Agung; King of Ubud Tjokorda Gde Putra Sukawati; the King of Karangasem, Prof. A.A. Gde Putra Agung; the King of Sukasada, Prof. Dr. Gusti Ndurah Gorda; the King of Pelitan, Cokorda Gede Agung Mas; and the King of Jimbaran, Anak Agung Gede Agung, held at the Bali Convention Centre in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
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1982
The 3rd Annual Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Marathon is held in Hampton, NH, USA.
1998
The first volume of Sri Chinmoy’s poetry series Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees is published in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of New Zealand Award.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 people including Prince Dipokusumo of Surakarta, Indonesia, and Princess Febri Haryu Apsari; and Asimananda Smirnov, Vice President of the Russian Federation Academy of Security, Defense and Law, at the Equatorial Hotel and Convention Centre in Penang, Malaysia.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 Buddhist monks and novices from Wat Chedi Luang and Wat Suan Doh on Wat Chang Kong Grounds, Imperial Mae Ping Hotel, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1977
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj at a special function for United Nations diplomats and staff, held at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at San Blas Half-Marathon in Puerto Rico.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (294) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Peru Award.
2003
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Sri Chinmoy lifts 40-time English Channel Swimmer Alison Streeter, and her mother, at the Watermark Hotel in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Alison Streeter has more crossings than any other person; is the first woman to achieve a double crossing, and the only woman to achieve a triple crossing.
2004
Sri Chinmoy presents His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta, with a special Soul-Bird drawing in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Equatorial Hotel and Convention Centre in Penang, Malaysia.
2006
Sri Chinmoy receives the Yuri Gagarin Medallion from The Cosmonaut Federation of Russia for merit in the field of Cosmonautics From Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law, at the Equatorial Hotel and Convention Centre in Penang, Malaysia.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Life and Death, Atman and Paramatman’, at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Divine Mission’, at the United Nations in New York.
1975
Sri Chinmoy holds his first 7-hour meditation for his students at the Bayside Church in New York, NY, USA. There, he also celebrates his most recent artistic achievement of completing 4,000 Jharna-Kala paintings.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (170) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Willingness’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy holds a special function for King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XI and his family who perform on the gamelan, sing sacred music and perform sacred Javanese dance, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 children and 4 teachers from Dorkgnern Municipal School, at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1978
Sri Chinmoy joins ambassadors from Israel, Panama and Liberia in a programme paying tribute to US President Abraham Lincoln, at the United Nations in New York. Here, Sri Chinmoy meets for the first time with Dr. Jorge Illueca, Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations.
1978
Sri Chinmoy begins a series of lectures and esraj concerts at thirty-seven universities in New York State, starting with a talk, entitled ‘I Pray’, at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy runs 13 miles of the Boston Marathon course in Boston, MA, USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function to honour Sudhahota Carl Lewis and his sister Carol at Progress-Promise function hall in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy performs a piano improvisation and lifts his own bodyweight for Vision of Asia TV in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy honours Grammy-winning singer Addwitiya Roberta Flack on her birthday, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (218) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
The city of Unava in Gujarat, India, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and receives the Udayana University Medallion of Honour, presented by the Rector, Professor Dr. I Wayan Wita, MD. Sri Chinmoy lifts the Rector; Professor Dr. Ir. I Gde Suyatna, Secretary of the Faculty Senate; and Dr. Nyoman T. Suryadhi, MD, Head of the Population and Biostatistics Study Program, at Udayana University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Existence, Non-Existence, and the Source’, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers three lectures — ‘Self-Discovery’ at 3.30 p.m. followed by questions and answers, The World Within and the World Without’ at 5.30 p.m. followed by questions and answers, and ‘Transcendence and Perfection’ at 7.30 p.m. followed by questions and answers — in Room 426 of the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy visits the United Nations Gift Centre at the United Nations in New York. He meditates with the shop’s staff before they begin work for the day and then gives a short talk.
1979
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates ‘Soul-Joy in Body-Fort’ health food store in Boston, MA, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (171) at the ‘Heart-to-Heart Festival’ in Washington, DC, USA. There, he is interviewed by Body, Mind and Spirit magazine.
1996
The Mayor of Kathmandu, Nepal, visits Sri Chinmoy at Annam Brahma restaurant, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Bali’s head Hindu priest, Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung, and 21 other notable Indonesians from Java and Bali, including the General Manager Mr. Dhordy of Bali Ngurah Rai Airport and his wife; three Vice-Rectors of Udayana University; and colleagues of highly-respected Indonesian government official Professor Haryono Suyono, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. The airport is rededicated on 8 February 2023.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China. The guest of honour is Xiao Wu Nan (Woolf Shaw), Vice-Chairman of China’s Social, Economic and Cultural Exchange Association.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 monks and novices from Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Phra Singh and Wat Suan Dok, at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand. After lifting them, Sri Chinmoy offers a short esraj concert.
2007
Sri Chinmoy filmed a video of monks collecting food and offering blessings in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers the first of his many talks in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, at the United Nations in New York. It is entitled, ‘Meditation: Self-Transcendence’. Sri Chinmoy’s first talk at the United Nations was held at the UN Church Centre on 26 November 1968.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture, entitled ‘Freedom’, at Rackham Hall, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture, entitled ‘Peace’, in the Ingman Room, Student Union at the University of Toledo in Toledo, OH, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘I Meditate’, in New York, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy composes his soulful ‘Happy Birthday’ song that, together with the traditional Happy Birthday song, is sung to celebrate birthdays.
1991
Sri Chinmoy begins singing in the classical Indian style in front of a videotape at his home in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy is invited to inaugurate the new temple at the Vishva Seva Ashram in Corona, Queens, New York, USA. Sri Chinmoy meditates as the temple priest performs the Shivratri rites, and then he gives a short talk on Shiva.
1992
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function for Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, at Annam Brahma restaurant in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy performs 51 Bengali songs that he had composed in 5 days, in Sabah, Malaysia.
2004
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Sri Chinmoy receives the Medal of Honour, the Cook Islands’ highest award, presented by Deputy Prime Minister Ngamau Munokoa at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Just prior to receiving the award, Sri Chinmoy lifts her as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme and plays a short esraj concert.
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1968
Sri Chinmoy gives an introductory talk to a series of eighteen lectures on the Bhagavad Gita at his apartment, 504 East 84th Street, in Manhattan, New York. Each Tuesday evening lecture — 13 February to 8 June 1968 — starts at 7:30 p.m. and deals with one of the Bhagavad Gita’s eighteen chapters. The complete talks are subsequently published by Rudolf Steiner Publications in 1973 under the title Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita: The Song of the Transcendental Soul.
1968
Sri Chinmoy’s book Songs of the Soul is printed in New York. It originally came out as a small pamphlet.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture, entitled ‘Success and Progress’, at Halleck Building, Conference Room 1, St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, IN, USA. Sri Chinmoy is introduced to the audience by Dr. John Philip Posey, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Non-Western Core Programme.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, in the Congress Room at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture, entitled ‘Love and Perfection’, at Loyola University in Chicago, IL, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy returns to his birthplace in East Shakpura, near Chittagong, Bangladesh, for the first time in 42 years.
1988
Sri Chinmoy meets with Calvin Smith, the former world-record holder for 100 metres, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy presents him with a plaque, calling him “Champion of Champions.” Sri Chinmoy’s students also sing a song for him that Sri Chinmoy had composed in his honour.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (328) at Public School 101 in Forest Hills in New York, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy holds a farewell function for Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Ambassador for India to the USA, at Hunter College in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 112 people, breaking his own record for the number of people lifted in a single day, in Sabah, Malaysia.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Watermark Hotel in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 49 people overhead, including the 7,000th person since he began his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme in June 1988, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a message, entitled ‘Every Day, a Fresh Attempt’ during a morning function with his disciples at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 25 children and 2 teachers from the Sridonchai Municipal School at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 8 Thai residents at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Kundalini Yoga: The Mother-Power’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Forward!’, in the Union Cinema, at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 347 paintings in 24 hours in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Tempe Community Centre, in Tempe, AZ, USA.
1982
A feature article about Sri Chinmoy is published under the banner ‘Hinduism in America’ in the Indian English-language weekly news magazine, The Illustrated Weekly of India.
1987
Sri Chinmoy composes his ‘Seven Thousand Pounds’ song in honour of his pinnacle weightlifting achievement.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Vladimir Petrovsky, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York. Later that evening, Sri Chinmoy meets for an hour with President Gorbachev’s daughter, Irina Virganskaya, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, before she flies back to Russia the next day.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 Chinese residents at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China. He also gives a short esraj performance.
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1977
Sri Chinmoy delivers a short talk, entitled ‘I Am Happy’, at the United Nations in New York.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs the Sri Chinmoy 5K Race in a time of 22 min. 29 sec., in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev’s daughter Irina Virganskaya at JFK International Airport in New York, NY, USA, to farewell her before she flies back to Russia. He brings gifts for the Gorbachev family and a special song he has written for her.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (295) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy delivers a short message, entitled ‘Smile’, in New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy completes 27 seven-minute meditations to commemorate the completion of his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.
2000
Agra (ancient Moghul capital and home of the Taj Mahal) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom in Uttar Pradesh, India.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Slovenia Award.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts 30 people at the Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 Thai residents at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2013
Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt is interviewed on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ and speaks about her extraordinary meeting with Sri Chinmoy in 2003. The interview is broadcast to millions around the world.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at Cape Cod Community College in Hyannis, MA, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Meditation’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (260) to celebrate his fourth Piano Anniversary at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy hosts a banquet for Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations, Geneva, and his wife Mira, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
2000
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Sri Chinmoy lifts two 500-lb. dumbbells (a total of 1,000 lbs.) overhead simultaneously, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read more ...
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Mozambique and the Heart of Mongolia Awards.
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1946
At the age of fourteen, Sri Chinmoy writes a Bengali poem, entitled ‘Amitraakhkhar’, about his elder brother Hriday and Lord Narayana (Vishnu), while at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Pondicherry, India.
1974
Sri Chinmoy plays the Indian esraj for the first time in public, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy answers questions on ‘Happiness’ at a meeting of his New Jersey Centre.
1977
Sri Chinmoy receives a letter of greeting from Walter F. Mondale, Vice-President of the USA.
1979
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ’Scientist Einstein’ about the visionary scientist.
1979
Sri Chinmoy delivers the keynote address, entitled ‘God, Prophet and Religion’, at the World Parliament of Religion and Culture, in Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Sri Chinmoy is invited to speak at the Parliament by Sree Sree Mentu Maharaj and the Universal Peace Mission.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A Seeker’s Life’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA.
1980
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy Jharna-Kala paintings opens at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy donates 100 of his books to Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his eighth Esraj Anniversary at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to commemorate his ninth Esraj Anniversary at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (172) and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Silence Within, Sound Without’ and also lifts seven dignitaries — including Diana Eck, Professor, Harvard University, Study of Comparative Religions and Indian Studies; and John J. McAleer, author and Professor of English Literature, Boston College — at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song for Harvard University.
1990
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on the national television show Alla Ricerca dell'Arca (In Search of the Ark)’ in Rome, Italy.
1993
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the nineteenth anniversary of his esraj playing — calling it his “dearest and fondest instrument” — by offering a concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (459) for his 22nd Esraj Anniversary — later released on CD as The Beauty of a Oneness-Family-Home — at Public School 117 in Briarwood, New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy gives an hour-long esraj performance to celebrate his 25th Esraj Anniversary, which is recorded at PS 117 in Briarwood, New York, and later released on CD as ‘My Esraj: My Inspiration-Aspiration-Source’.
2001
Qatar is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2006
Sri Chinmoy meets with Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, at Langkawi Airport in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2006
Sri Chinmoy performs 32 songs on the esraj to celebrate his 32nd Esraj Anniversary, in Langkawi, Malaysia.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Flame-Waves from the Upanishad-Sea, Part 1’, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
1973
A report on Sri Chinmoy’s spoken meditations, broadcast daily at sunrise on the Dave Herman Show on WNEW FM, appears in a column called ‘Radio Round up’ in New York’s Sunday News newspaper. The first ‘Sunrise Meditation’ was broadcast on 1 February 1973.
1973
Three of Sri Chinmoy’s spiritual plays are performed by members of the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey Sri Chinmoy Centres at the Victoria Congregational Church in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love Human, Love Divine, Love Supreme’, at the State University of New York in Purchase, NY, USA.
1977
A bronze bust of U Thant is presented to Sri Chinmoy by UN Under-Secretary-General Robert Muller and sculptor Domenico Mazzone, at the United Nations in New York.
1984
Sri Chinmoy sends a message of encouragement to track and field champion Sudhahota Carl Lewis.
1984
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his tenth Esraj Anniversary by playing 27 songs in concert, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously improvises on a piano for 2½ minutes at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. This is the precursor of his world-acclaimed piano performances.
1988
Sri Chinmoy performs piano improvisations at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA. The concert, marking Sri Chinmoy’s first piano anniversary, is recorded live and released as ‘Earth’s God-Hunger-Power-Tears’. After the concert, Sri Chinmoy composes his Piano song and teaches it to the audience.
1989
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“If I am known as a musician, then I owe my musical aspiration, musical dedication and musical talents to my beloved esraj.” — Sri Chinmoy (after the concert) |
Sri Chinmoy plays 57 songs in concert to celebrate his fifteenth Esraj Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (219) and organ recitalance at Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, Germany.
2001
Sudan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2004
Flautist Paul Horn gives a private concert for Sri Chinmoy and his students at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts Russian musician Boris Grebenshikov and his wife Irina at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2006
Sri Chinmoy opens a Jharna-Kala Exhibition and offers a Peace Concert at Langkawi Lagoon Resort in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2007
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The words of a song composed for the occasion: “Baby elephant, baby elephant, I love you. You are Mother Earth’s achievement new. Your father, your mother, strong, stronger, strongest You are indeed cute, cuter, cutest. I love, I love your sweet family. You give my eyes and my heart purest glee.” — Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy lifts a seven-month-old baby elephant weighing 701 lbs. using a standing calf-raise machine with a shoulder platform, at Elephant Special Tours, in Mae Sapok, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. The total weight of the lift, including the apparatus, is 785 lbs.
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1971
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk to the students of Karate Teacher Mr. Kimo Wall of Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Sagrado Corazon College in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after Mr. Wall and his students had given an extraordinary demonstration of their skills.
1975
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘O My Puerto Rico’ dedicated to the Governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernandez Colon.
1975
Sri Chinmoy completes his 7,000th Jharna-Kala artwork, after painting another 1,000 while in Puerto Rico. The final 181 paintings are completed in 2 hours. This achievement comes just three months after he began creating his ‘Fountain-Art’ in Ottawa, Canada, on November 19, 1974.
1976
An interview with Sri Chinmoy for the Ted Bonnet Show is broadcast at 2:00 p.m. on radio station WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy performs piano improvisations in concert to celebrate his second Piano Anniversary at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 18th Esraj Anniversary and his 5th Piano Anniversary at the Wednesday evening meditation at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA. His performance on the Bösendorfer piano lasts 23 minutes and 13 seconds.
1996
Sri Chinmoy meets Masanobu Ikemiya at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy answers questions from the famous Japanese composer and concert pianist.
1997
Sri Chinmoy’s book I Go Out, I Come In second printing contains 92 poems.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (486) and celebrates his 23rd Esraj Anniversary at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert appears in the Slovakian newspaper ‘Trhak’.
2000
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Sri Chinmoy lifts two 650-lb. dumbbells (1,300 lbs. in total) simultaneously, using both arms, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 13th Piano Anniversary by giving an 18-minute perfornance at Public School 177 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The recording is later released as a CD, entitled ‘Omnipotence-Poise’.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with flautist Paul Horn — who had given a concert for Sri Chinmoy and his students the previous evening — for an extended lunch at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York. In the evening, Paul Horn attends a concert performed by Sri Chinmoy.
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Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 30th Esraj Anniversary by performing 30 songs in a concert — the recording is later released on a CD entitled Esraj: My Heart-Song.
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1971
Sri Chinmoy entertains his youngest students — ranging in age from six to ten years — with six stories at an afternoon of storytelling held at ‘Divine Robe Supreme’ in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1973
The first credit course on Sri Chinmoy’s Philosophy at an academic institution is developed and taught by Professor Peter Pitzele (Brihaspati) of Harvard University, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, USA. A compilation of Sri Chinmoy’s writings is assembled by Prof. Pitzele to form the basis of the curriculum. It is later published as Beyond Within.
1974
>Sri Chinmoy delivers a morning lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom, Justice and Moderation’, at the Student Center Chapel, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture, entitled ‘Hope and Life’, in the Foreign Student Lounge at Clemson University in Clemson, SC, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture, entitled ‘Success, Failure and Progress’, at the Humanities Lecture Hall, in the University of North Carolina in Asheville, NC, USA.
1975
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“The Presidency makes his own each and every one of the tributes that were motivated by the visit of this illustrious son of the world which honours and distinguishes the people of Puerto Rico and our Senate. His very presence is an inspiration to the Senate of Puerto Rico and to every Senator. His feet stepping on the land of Puerto Rico is also an inspiration to all men and women of our country. May we welcome this distinguished philosopher. May he be our spiritual brother and adviser in the Senate of Puerto Rico today. And when he leaves the Senate, may he take the Senate of Puerto Rico and all its members in his thoughts.” —Juan Cancel Ríos, Senate President (1972-1976) | |||
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“As our Speaker has said, he is a man of extraordinary simplicity which denotes the highest knowledge of God ... I feel that the visit of this great Guru will tremendously benefit the country of Puerto Rico. Here at the Legislature, I am sure love, understanding and brotherhood will be felt without any religious differences. I wholeheartedly join our Speaker in welcoming Sri Chinmoy and telling him that his presence has greatly honoured us.” — Ruth Fernández, Senator (1972-1976) “I would like to bring to the attention of this Senate the fact that on this day we have the great privilege and honour of receiving the visit of a spiritual leader, whom I would not call a spiritual leader of India, but rather a spiritual leader of the world. ... I feel he is a person of profound simplicity, yet a great spiritual intensity radiates from his being.” — Hipólito Marcano, Senate Floor Leader (1972-1976) |
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Sri Chinmoy is honoured by the Senate of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1975
Sri Chinmoy holds a private meditation with Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico at the Governor’s mansion in Cayey, Puerto Rico.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Imagination, Inspiration, Aspiration and Realisation’, at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1976
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘O My Australia’ during a bus trip in Canada, just ten days prior to commencing his first Australian lecture tour. The score for the song is printed in New York and brought to Australia in early March and distributed at Sri Chinmoy’s public lectures and meditations.
1977
A television program about Sri Chinmoy is broadcast on ‘Terry Katz Nelson’s City Scene’, across the New York area, NY, USA.
1978
An aphorism by Sri Chinmoy appears in Forbes Magazine, the influential American business magazine.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘A True Seeker’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo marathon in 5:25:20 along Hempstead Turnpike in Long Island, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (93) at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a viola concert at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA
1990
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (220) and lifts 31 German residents, at the Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC) in Stadtpark, Hannover, Germany.
1991
Sri Chinmoy observes his 17th Esraj Anniversary by giving a concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (329) at the Flushing Jewish Center in Flushing, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Nepal Award.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in honour of the birth anniversary of the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (February 21st), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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Sri Chinmoy gives a 10½-minute extemporaneous piano performance to commemorate his 19th Piano Anniversary in Langkawi, Malaysia.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, introduced by University President Reverend Pradit Takerngrangsarit, at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prana and the Power of the Chakras’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God’s Love’, at 9 a.m. in Baird Lounge at Berea College in Berea, KY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Center, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy meets with the former Governor of Puerto Rico, Roberto Sanchez Vilella; and has a separate meeting with the current Governor of Puerto Rico, Rafael Hernandez Colon, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Warriors of the Inner World’, at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1988
Sri Chinmoy performs his first left-arm lift of 170 lbs., in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert (221) at the Berlin State Library — Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB) — in West Berlin, Germany.
1990
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Sri Chinmoy offers an evening Peace Concert (222) at the International Congress Center (ICC) Berlin — Berlin Kongresszentrum — in West Berlin, Germany.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (486) at Public School 86 in New York, NY, USA.
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“This lift by Sri Chinmoy is the reason my wife and I started the elephant camp 12 years ago, because he is showing that we can succeed at anything that is good for life on this planet.” — Owner of the Mae Taeng Elephant Park |
Sri Chinmoy lifts two baby elephants separately – the heaviest of which is a one-year-old weighing 969 lbs. (1,074 lbs. including platform) — using a standing calf-raise machine with a shoulder-height overhead platform, at the Maetaeng Elephant Park, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
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On hearing a recording of Sri Chinmoy’s debut performance: “It is ‘out of earth’ music. It is cosmic music, beyond this galaxy. Sri Chinmoy’s sense of harmony and rhythm is fantastic. You have to have the wisdom of the innermost Truth to play like this. Sri Chinmoy is doing what other musicians would like to but can’t because they are so moulded. His music is the ultimate!” — Milford Graves, jazz percussionist |
Sri Chinmoy performs his first public piano improvisation – ‘The Battle of Kurukshetra’ – at a Peace Concert (94) at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA. Read more…
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers his first Peace Concert (223) in East Germany and lifted 13 German residents at Opernhaus Leipzig, in Leipzig, East Germany.
1991
Sri Chinmoy receives four awards from the International Association of Educators for World Peace — two Diplomas of Honour, an Award proclaiming him Dharma Raja (King of Dharma) and the ‘Fountain of Universal Peace Award’ — at the United Nations in New York.
1992
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (296) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA. A cassette, entitled ‘Peace Blossoms’, of Sri Chinmoy singing 22 of the songs from the concert, is released in 1992. Listen to the recording...
1997
Sri Chinmoy breaks his personal Basketball Record by shooting 79 baskets out of 100 throws from the foul line at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Macedonia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
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Sri Chinmoy lifts nine mature elephants, all weighing more than 4,000 lbs., including the heaviest elephant he ever lifted – an 8,046 lb. female carrying a mahout and the apparatus for a total of 8,622 lbs. – using a calf-raise machine with a ground platform at the Mae Taeng Elephant Park, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Also lifted is a baby elephant.
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Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Who are We?’, at the United Nations in New York.
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Sri Chinmoy inaugurates a Peace Mile at Bürgerpark in Pankow near the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, East Germany. He and his students then walk the one-mile course.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (224) and lifts 19 people, including Mr. Bernard A. Molewa, Ambassador of the ANC to East Germany as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at the Kongresshalle am Alexanderplatz in East Berlin, East Germany.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (261) at the Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Malta and the Heart of Malaysia
2001
Seychelles is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
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1988
Sri Chinmoy records two half-hour interviews with New York TV personality Joel Martin for cable TV in New York, NY, USA. They will be aired during the spring.
1989
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings opens in Städtische Ausstellunghalle Klingental in Basel, Switzerland.
1993
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his sixth Piano Anniversary with a piano concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (460) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy cooks prasad for his students to mark the completion of his first 1,000 poems in his Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees series. It takes him five hours, 20 minutes to prepare the dish.
Sri Chinmoy also holds a four-hour meditation to commemorate the occasion. There will be future four-hour meditations to be held on the 24th of each month.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Cook Islands Award.
2005
Sri Chinmoy performs on the Chinese erhu in a duet with legendary flautist Paul Horn in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy performed on 8 Thai musical instruments at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed about his Jhanra-Kala artworks on New York television.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Does It Mean To Be Spiritual?’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a seven-hour meditation for his 20 years in the West, in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy has a private meeting with Karan Singh, former Ambassador for India to the USA, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. (Karan Singh has just resigned his ambassadorial post in America and meets with Sri Chinmoy before returning to India.)
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, and his wife Mrs. Hanne Strong, at the United Nations in New York.
1993
Sri Chinmoy lifts Anatoli Sergeyevich Chernyayev, aid to President Gorbachev, former Soviet National Security Advisor; and Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko, interpreter, as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, in the garden tent behind Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy receives the President’s Award from the Metropolitan Athletic Congress for his contributions to New York area running and his personal running achievements, in New York, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his ninth Piano Anniversary with a piano recital at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA. At the beginning of the concert, Sri Chinmoy blesses a bust of Franz Schubert, one of his inspirations in the piano world.
1999
Norway is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation, in a motion signed by all seven National Parliament Leaders.
2000
The Indian state of Gujarat (home of Mahatma Gandhi) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 10,000 paintings in 100 days in Jamaica, NY, USA. The final 1,000 paintings are completed in 21 hours.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘What Is It?’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1984
A half-hour interview with Sri Chinmoy on WCBS-TV’s ‘The Way To Go’ is aired in New York, NY, USA. The interview is conducted by Dr. James P. Carse, professor and Chairman of the Religion Department at New York University.
1988
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sy Mah, a senior citizen who has completed over 490 marathons, honouring him with a song and a plaque, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (173), an organ performance, delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration’, and recites 5 peace poems, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy lifts Don Ritchie, ultra-distance runner, the world-record holder for 100 miles and 100 km, in the garden tent at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
An exhibition of Sr Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at New South Wales Parliament House in Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
1997
Sri Chinmoy composes two songs about the United Nations Office of Project Services and holds a special meditation at the invitation of the Executive Director, Reinhart Helmke, at the United Nations in New York.
2001
Sri Chinmoy visits Russia for the first time at the invitation of President Gorbachev for his 70th birthday on March 2nd.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Compassion’, at 9 a.m. in Kendall Cram Room, Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love Human and Love Divine’, at 2 p.m. in Room 132, Jefferson Davis Campus, Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College in Gulfport, MS, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Human and the Divine’, at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom, the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Giver and the Receiver’, at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (95) at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (225), with a performance on two pianos simultaneously using an electronic replay, at Buchman Hall in Manhattan, NY, USA. The performance is recorded live and released as ‘The Cries of the Unknown and the Smiles of the Unknowable’. Listen to the CD…
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (330) at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on the cable TV programme ‘Father Tom and Religious Leaders’ on Telecare, in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (559) at Cirque D’Hiver in Paris, France.
2002
Sri Chinmoy celebrates his 28th anniversary of first playing the esraj, by offering a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Flame-Waves from the Upanishad-Sea, Part 2’, at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.
1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Concentration, Meditation, Willpower and Love’, at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Problems’, at 1:30 p.m. in The Chapel at Wheeling College, Wheeling, WV, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for his first visit to Australia. He will give a total of 10 lectures in Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, which are later published in My Heart’s Salutation to Australia, Part 1 and Part 2.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and meditation in the Cole Auditorium of Greenwich Library, on West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1979
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Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Community Church of New York in New York, NY, USA.
1982
Green Leaves and Ripe Fruits, a new series of Sri Chinmoy races for children under 10 and adults over 50, is inaugurated at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The 400-and 800-metre events will continue to be held there every Sunday at 5 p.m., rain or shine.
1992
Sri Chinmoy attends the Mobil Games at Madison Square Garden to watch Carl Lewis compete in the long jump in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed for the Literary Gazette (Moscow) by its US correspondent Mr. Edgar Tcheporov.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Ghana Award.
2004
Sri Chinmoy holds a special memorial at PS 86 in Jamaica, New York, for his dear friend, President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia, who had tragically died in a plane crash just two days earlier. During the function, Sri Chinmoy sings a song he had composed for the President, entitled ‘Your Death is Not the End’.
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Sri Chinmoy’s first Indian passport is issued by the Regional Passport Office in Madras, India.
1972
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“Whoever speaks to me about you is all appreciation and I personally feel that you have been doing a most significant task for the United Nations. It has been a great privilege for me to see you. Please feel my sincere respect and concern for what you are doing for mankind.” — U Thant, Third Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Sri Chinmoy first meets with U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
1980
Sri Chinmoy gives an inspirational talk, entitled ‘Hope’, about the late UN Secretary-General U Thant, at the United Nations in New York.
1980
Sri Chinmoy’s students from his New Jersey Centre hold a 24-hour meditation for seekers, beginning at midnight, at a church in Flushing, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy visits at the end to lead a short meditation.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Sudhahota Carl Lewis for some coaching advice at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (297) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, Queens, New York, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his first meeting with United Nations Secretary-General U Thant.