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
Playing esraj in concert in Bermuda
Meeting President Premadasa in Sri Lanka
At Victoria Falls, a Sri Chinmoy Peace Falls
Running 100 metres at Masters Games in Fiji
Playing esraj at the Great Wall of China
Playing his golden flute in Japan
An Honorary Doctorate in the Philippines
Playing ‘Chinmoy Beena’ in Cairns, Australia
Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport in the Canary Islands
Meeting with President Nelson Mandela
Meeting with champion boxer Muhammad Ali
Lifting over 7,000 lbs. with one arm
At the completion of two million Soul-Birds
A vertical standing jump onto a 30" platform
Meeting with Sufi leader Pir Vilayat Khan
Interview on ‘Newsline’ in Westchester
Lifting own body weight 150 times
Opening the 2006 World Harmony Run
Having just lifted a hot air balloon
Niagara Falls, a Sri Chinmoy Peace Falls
Named ‘Messenger of the Millennium’
Competing in the annual 12-hour walk
Holding the Peace Torch with Paula Radcliffe
With UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Running a marathon in New Hampshire, USA
Meeting with Yehudi Menuhin
Playing the organ in Nürnberg
Lifting 650 lbs. with each arm
Lifting an elephant in Thailand
Giving his first public piano performance
Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile near the Berlin Wal
Meeting UN Secretary-General U Thant
Meeting with conductor Zubin Mehta
Jharna-Kala gallery with Raisa Gorbacheva
Exhibition of painting dedicated to the UN
Peace Concert in Mongolia
With Princess Diana at Kensington Palace
Opening the New York Games
Peace Concert at the United Nations
Playing the balalaika in Davos, Switzerland
Peace Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
First meeting with President Gorbachev
Holding the Peace Torch with Pope John Paul II
Lifting the world’s smallest horse
Meditating at the US Congress in Washington
Planting a Peace Tree in Kamakura, Japan
Playing Western flute in Melbourne
Meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Second public musical recital in New York
First one million Soul-Birds exhibit in Ottawa
With Pope Paul VI at the Vatican
Playing the harp in concert in Zurich
First long-distance run in San Francisco
A 50-metre race in California
Playing esraj in concert at Woodstock, NY
Holding the Peace Torch
Meeting with Mother Teresa in New York
Holding the Peace Torch
Meeting with Indian President Moraji Desai
With Irish President
Offering a concert
First meeting with
Playing the piano
Playing the organ
Playing the golden flute in Canberra
Playing the harpsichord
Peace Concert
Lifting the world’s
With Erskine Childers, President of Ireland
Meditating at
Peace Concert
Parliament of World’s
With New Zealand PM
Peace Concert
Peace Concert
UN Silver Medallion
Meeting with
Peace Concert at the
National Day of Prayer
TV interview with 
