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1969
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Connecticut Sri Chinmoy Centre, in Wilton, CT, USA.
1971
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: The Fount of World Peace’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Hunger’, at the Graduates’ Memorial Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
1974
“I have been reading your book, The Garland of Nation-Souls, which I like very much. I, too, believe in meditation ... I really believe that in these days of turmoil and strife, we all need something like meditation ... You know, we have tried teaching something about this in our schools, but the only people who have made a real effort to teach this idea have been people from the East, such as yourself.” — Erskine Childers, President of Ireland (1974-1975)
Sri Chinmoy meets with Erskine Childers, the 4th President of Ireland (1973–1974), at 4 p.m., in the Presidential Palace at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the first of 28 concerts given in July – at Woodrow Wilson Hall, Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. Sri Chinmoy also gives a spiritual talk:
| I Pray, I Meditate | 9:30 p.m. | Monmouth College, Asbury Park, NJ, USA | ||
This talk, the first of 100 lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered in 20 days, is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts the daughter of the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Princess Michaela von Habsburg. As well, Sri Chinmoy lifts her husband, the Duke of Alba, Eric Henry Alba-Teran d'Antin of Spain. Both lifts take place at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy observes the first ‘Grandfather’s Day’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Arif Mardin, nine-time Grammy-Award music producer, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘A True Seeker’, at St. Xavier Auditorium, St. Francis Xavier School, 122 West 17th Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Gratitude | 5:30 a.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Do Not Know | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Dream | 3:50 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA |
| Security | 4:38 p.m. | Bethpage State Park, Long Island, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 2-5) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy is selected to perform the daily ‘Changing of the Rose’ ceremony, symbolising the constant renewal of the peace process, at the National Palace, Peace Monument in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Fear in the Spiritual Life’, at Biblioteca Comunale in Milan, Italy.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Theoretical Surrender and Practical Surrender | 8:37 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Satisfaction | 8:35 p.m. | P.S. 86 High School, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 6 & 7) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Donna Halper on ‘The Other Hour’, a radio program broadcast live in New York on radio station WRVR.
1983
Sri Chinmoy completes his epic 10,000-poem series, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames in Jamaica, NY, USA. Read article...
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy composes two songs for Ten Thousand Flower-Flames – one in English and one in Bengali – on the 5th anniversary of the completion of his poetry epic.
1992
Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the World Telugu Conference and receives the Peace Award, at Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY, USA.
1993
Sixty-two thousand of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Kuwait is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to United Nations Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari at the United Nations in New York.
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1972
Sri Chinmoy visits Vivekananda Rock on Wellesley Island, Thousand Island Park, NY, USA, to honour the 70th anniversary of the passing (4 July 1902) of his revered spiritual predecessor in America, Swami Vivekananda. Sri Chinmoy meditates at the very spot where Swami Vivekananda had once meditated and entered into Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spiritual Strength’, at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany.
1976
Sri Chinmoy holds his first 13-hour public meditation, offered in honour of America’s Bicentennial, for the Soul of America, at the 72nd Street Bandshell in Central Park, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Compassion-Height and Justice-Light | 8:05 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Desire | 8:05 p.m. | Informal Gathering at a Private House, Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 8 & 9) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1994
Sri Chinmoy’s first joke video ‘Humour: My Only Saviour’ is shown in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy sinks 863 baskets out of 1,300 basketball throws, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 Bangladeshi nationals, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert in honour of the Bengali cultural community worldwide, in Jamaica NY, USA.
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JULY 5TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Miracles’, at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| The Shortcut, the Shorter Cut, the Shortest Cut | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Happiness and Unhappiness | 9:05 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School, Hollis, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 10 & 11) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert; gives a talk, entitled ‘You Are Our All’; and recites 5 peace poems, at the State Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts the children of Jacob Zuma, Executive Deputy President of South Africa, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 6TH | |
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1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Two Instruments: Impurity and Purity’, at the Indian Cultural Society in London, England.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Human Reality and Divine Reality | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Am Grateful | 9:20 p.m. | Unitarian Church, Flushing, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 12 & 13) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 10 prominent Australians, including Mt. Everest climbers Greg Mortimer and Lincoln Hall, at the Town Hall in Sydney, Australia.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,250-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Zambia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 people, including staff members of the United Nations Development Programme, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts former President of Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1973
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Spirituality’, at ABF Huset, Sveavägen, in Stockholm, Sweden.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Aspiring Life’, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.
1975
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 220 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Austerity | 7:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Smile, Love and Claim | 9:15 p.m. | Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, USA |
These talks (nos. 14 & 15) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 50 lb. using one arm in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, delivers a talk, entitled ‘I Need’, and recites 5 peace poems, at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, NZ.
1990
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, including one finger painting, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Chile is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in Barcelona, Spain.
2004
Sri Chinmoy opens the week-long Fourth Parliament of the World’s Religions at the Universal Forum for Cultures in Barcelona, Spain, with a silent meditation and a performance of his music on the esraj.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for Prabhu Jagannath, a disciple of Indian singer Dilip Kumar Roy, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 8TH | |
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1975
Sri Chinmoy meets with Pir Vilayat Khan, Head of the Sufi Order in the West, at Willow, Woodstock, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks:
| Imagination | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Lifelong Friends | 12:35 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
| Aspiration | 9:30 p.m. | Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 16-18) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Centro De Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The 75 paintings fill the entire museum.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening silent meditation for an international gathering of several hundred Hindu leaders, on the final day of the 10th World Hindu Conference, held at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, delivers a talk, entitled ‘Stupidity, Insecurity and Fear’, and recites 6 peace poems, at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, NZ.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 17th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy sets to music ‘August 15, 1945’, his epic 194-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo on his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 9TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Spirituality’, at ABF Huset in Stockholm, Sweden.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Realisation | 7:50 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| A Fleeting Life | 11:25 a.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
| I Wish to be Free | 3:20 p.m. | Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Experience and Realisation | 9:20 p.m. | North Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 19-22) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 11 prominent New Zealanders, including Rod Dixon, 1972 Olympic bronze medallist in 1,500m, and 1983 New York City Marathon winner, at the Regent Hotel in Auckland, NZ.
1994
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Conference on World Religions at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ganesh Hindu Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.
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JULY 10TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Secret of Joy’, at the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden.
1976
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives a spiritual talk:
| I Am a Born Prayer | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
This talk (no. 23) is later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1982
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Receptivity’, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. He also completes a 7-mile solo run in 54 min. 53 sec., as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ series, in Boston, MA, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy begins his epic poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy completes 7,000 poems in one year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy competes in the 100-metre race (15.29 sec.), 600-gm javelin (27.26m), 1-kg discus (23.70m) and 4-kg shot put (8.65m) at Sri Chinmoy Masters Games, held at Victory Field, Long Island, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘No Expectation’, at his home in Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 5 members of the US Congress: Neil Abercrombie, Congressman from Hawaii; Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York; Sanford Bishop, Congressman from Georgia; Benjamin A. Gilman, Congressman from New York; Ed Towns, Congressman from New York, at the Rayburn Office Building, US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.
2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in, in Kamakura, Japan.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Capacity’, at St. Thomas’ Church Hall in Vasteras, Sweden.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Love, Service and Transformation’, in White Plains, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on National Public Radio and broadcast nationwide throughout the USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| You are Spiritual | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Spirituality | 10:00 p.m. | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 24-25) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 1.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 5 miles in a time of 38:11 (7:38 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at the ‘Runners are Smilers’ race in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Flushing, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 100m in the West (13.67 sec.), and 200m (29.69 sec.) at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field, in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 18th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr Josephine Davis, President of York College — a branch of the City University of New York, based in Queens — at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, New York.
2000
Sri Chinmoy bench presses a 700-lb. dumbbell, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mount Fuji’s Sengen Jinja shrine in Fujiyama, Japan.
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JULY 12TH | |
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1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Satisfaction’, at the Fédération Internationale d’Acceuil in Paris, France.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Learn’, at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives two spiritual talks:
| Illumination | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Expectation | 1:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 26-27) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers an outdoor concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,400-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy composes his 4,000th Bengali song Karo Alokito Karo, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy receives a Doctor of Philosophy in Peace Education Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Laxmi Mall Singhvi, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in New York, NY, USA.
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JULY 13TH | |
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1970
My Ivy League Leaves is the first book published by Chinmoy Publishing Company, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy completes his 1,000-poem volume, entitled Europe-Blossoms, which he began on 21 June 1974. The poems were all written during his trip to Europe.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘You do not Know, He does not Know, I do not Know’, at the Aum Center for Self-Realization, Yoga Center, in Ellicottville, NY, USA.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Happiness’, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives seven spiritual talks:
| Obedience was My Way of Life | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| You and Your Perfection | 9:35 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Yoga and Oneness | 9:37 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Hatha Yoga | 9:39 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Intuition | 9:41 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| Perfection | 9:43 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
| If You Have, Then Come to Me | 9:45 p.m. | Yoga-Life Perfection, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 28-34) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
2000
Mali is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
France is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 113 pilots in a single day, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, at Boeing Field Auditorium in Seattle, WA, USA. An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks also takes place at the same venue.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Sri Chinmoy also offers a bouquet in a soulful tribute at the Peace Memorial.
2006
Sri Chinmoy meets with Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, and presents him with a Jharna-Kala painting at City Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.
2006
Sri Chinmoy composes the words to his 13,000th Bengali song Shakpura Shakpura Purba Shakpura Gram on a trip from Hiroshima on the Shinkansen Bullet Train between Kyoto and Kamakura and sets them to music the following day.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 14TH | |
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1973
Sri Chinmoy tells three spiritual stories — Inner Meditation and Outer Vibration, The Yogi's Advice and With Hope-Food I Exist — subsequently published in the book, Is God Really Partial?
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks:
| I am Privileged | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I am Helpless | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Get Up! | 5:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Don’t Suffer! | 5:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Disciples, Followers, Admirers and Well-Wishers | 8:40 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA |
| Reliance | 8:53 p.m. | Martin Van Buren High School Hollis, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 35-40) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1985
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 60-lb. lift using only one-arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy composes words for Mozart’s ‘Minuet in G’ – the first time his words are set to classical music, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy wins a 100m race in 15.47 sec. and places 2nd in the 200m event in 31.78 sec., in the Sri Chinmoy Masters Games at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people at Victory Field in Forest Park, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 19th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,000-lb. lift using a seated calf-raise and a 2,000 lb. lift using a standing calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 55 people, including numerous professors at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy plays 51 of his own melodies on the sitar. The recording of this first-ever performance on the sitar is later released on a CD entitled ‘Impossibility Surrenders’.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and a Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Great Buddha Temple, Daibutsu, Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan, where he presents one of his Jharna-Kala paintings to Michiko Sato, daughter of the late Head Priest Mitsuo Sato of Kōtoku-in Temple.
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JULY 15TH | |
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1968
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘I Know What to Do’, at the Retailer’s Centre in Haro Rey, Puerto Rico.
1970
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘The Garland of Nation-Souls’, to the United Nations World Youth Congress at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Experiences’, at Friends House in Brighton, UK.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives three spiritual talks:
| It Is Not Enough | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Awareness, Devotedness, Soulfulness and Selflessness | 12:50 p.m. | Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, United Nations, NY, USA |
| I Do Not Imitate; I Do Not Initiate | 10:00 p.m. | North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 41-43) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including Therese Rossides, wife of Zenon Rossides, former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United Nations, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy honours his former boss at the Indian Consulate, the veteran Indian diplomat Mr. Lakhan Mehrotra, by lifting his daughter Aparna at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
1992
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first sixteen of sixty-one traditional Sanskrit chants, in celebration of his upcoming 61st birthday on 27 August 1992. He completes the songs — later published in the songbook, I Prayerfully Bow — on 9 August.
1994
Sri Chinmoy completes 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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JULY 16TH | |
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1966
Sri Chinmoy leaves New York for a nine-day visit to Puerto Rico.
1967
Sri Chinmoy gives his first radio talk on Radio Station WITA (‘Imparcial’). He speaks for eight minutes on the subject, ‘What Does Your Soul Need?’
1968
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Temas del momento, ‘Themes of the moment’, a TV programme directed by Mr Evelio Otero, in Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Inner Obedience’, at the University of Bristol, in Bristol, UK.
1976
“We want only peace, peace. You are praying for peace. I know what you and the Group are doing for us. I know it, I can feel it.” — Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981)
Sri Chinmoy has his first meeting with Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, and receives the UN Silver Medallion, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives six spiritual talks:
| Why do I Hide? | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I am In Preparation | 12:20 p.m. | John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, NY, USA |
| Humility and Compassion | 6:25 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
| Obedience | 6:45 p.m. | In transit to New Jersey, USA |
| I Need More | 9:05 p.m. | Kean College, Union, NJ, USA |
| Salvation, Liberation, Realisation, Perfection and Satisfaction | 10:00 p.m. | In transit to Jamaica, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 44-49) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1979
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Will Stone Collection in San Francisco, CA, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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JULY 17TH | |
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Religion?’, at the home of Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy juggles 3 balls over 450 times in London, UK.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Force’, at the University of Swansea, in Swansea, Wales, UK.
1976
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks is officially opened by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Juan Albors, at the Department of Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nine spiritual talks:
| Charity | 7:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Examination | 8:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Gifts | 3:00 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Who is the Winner? | 3:05 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Two Trains | 3:10 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Who is Knocking? | 3:15 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Disobedience and Penalty | 3:20 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Secrets | 3:25 p.m. | In transit from Jamaica, NY to Washington, DC, USA |
| Something is Missing | 9:10 p.m. | American University, Washington, DC, USA |
These talks (nos. 50-58) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 2 and Part 3. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1977
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed in Bengali by journalist Kamal Ashish Chakravarty from ‘Voice of America’ in Washington, DC, USA. The taped programme, which includes a short esraj performance by Sri Chinmoy, is later broadcast on Hindi and Bengali radio stations throughout Bangladesh and India, and is heard by Sri Chinmoy’s family in Pondicherry.
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
1982
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first in a series of chalk poems, which he writes on the green scoreboard at the side of his tennis court in Jamaica, NY, USA. He refers to the tennis court for the first time as ‘Illumination-Ground’. (Later, he will give it the permanent name of ‘Aspiration-Ground’.)
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, dedicated to Dag Hammarskjöld, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Who Can Grant Me Peace?’, at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Life’, at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with President Mikhail Gorbachev, at The Ritz in London, UK.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers Peace Concert with an organ performance — the 20th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.
2000
70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings are exhibited in the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
2004
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the one-year anniversary of his sitar playing with a performance in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy gives his first esraj concert, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks:
| Off the Path | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Disobedience is the Order of the Day | 6:55 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| The Red Stoplight | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Yesterday was the Time | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| To be Divinely Great | 12:35 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| If You Want to be Great | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Gratitude | 12:45 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| In the Human World | 7:00 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Our Beloved Supreme | 7:05 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| God’s Compassion Flows, God’s Justice Grows | 7:10 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| To Live in the Desire-World | 7:15 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I was a Student of Prayer | 7:20 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Wanted to Tell God | 7:25 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Lived Only Twice | 7:30 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| I Shall Sing Today | 7:35 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| The Purpose of Human Life | 7:40 p.m. | In transit to the Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| What More Can I Give You? | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Divine Pilgrimage | 8:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
| Lord of My Life, Friend of My Heart | 8:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Norwalk, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 59-77) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 3 and Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert performance at the annual puja in the Geeta Temple, Elmhurst, NY, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Art Gallery in London, UK.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘My Puerto Rico’, under the auspices of the YMCA of Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, at the Grand Hall, Caxton Hall, in London, UK.
1976
Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an ‘Honorary Resident of Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives four spiritual talks:
| Acceptance | 7:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Empty Moments | 7:40 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Do You Want to be Perfect? | 7:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Where are They? | 10:15 p.m. | Co-op City, Bronx, New York, NY, USA |
These talks (nos. 78-81) are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the ‘Center for the Light’ in New Marlboro, MA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Champaklal-ji from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Retretti Concert Hall in Punkaharju, Finland.
1996
Sri Chinmoy completes 5,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 480-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift (240 lbs. with both arms simultaneously) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 2,100-lb. lift using a standing calf-raise machine in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘What is Yoga?’ and an explanation of ‘Bhakti Yoga’, at the home of Sita (Mrs. Maria Teresa Gonzalez) in Rio Pedro, Puerto Rico.
1967
Sri Chinmoy appears on television for the first time. He is interviewed on the Government Station, WIPR (Channel 6), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1977
Sri Chinmoy gives nineteen spiritual talks:
| It is Never Too Late | 6:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| God Has Made This World Round | 6:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Am I a Giver? | 6:35 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Is it My Fate? | 6:45 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| What am I Doing? | 8:10 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Without Man and Without God | 8:15 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| My Heart-to-Heart Talk | 8:20 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Never Make an Outer Promise | 8:30 a.m. | Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Struggle | 12:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Special Messages | 12:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Transformation | 12:40 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Why Do I Not Share? | 12:50 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Substitutes | 1:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Now | 1:15 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| I Kept Praying | 1:30 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Newness | 5:00 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Why are You in a Hurry? | 5:10 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Dreaming and Planning | 5:20 p.m. | Sri Chinmoy Centre, Jamaica, NY, USA |
| Are You the Lamp of God? | 9:40 p.m. | Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT, USA |
These talks (nos. 82-100), the final in the series, are later published in Everest-Aspiration, Part 4. Sri Chinmoy delivers a total of 100 lectures in 20 days.
1981
Sri Chinmoy composes his famous song, ‘Everest-Aspiration!’ — on the 4th anniversary of the completion of his 100 Everest-Aspiration talks — in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at El Capitolio, the capitol building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy sets music to the first of his poems from his newly started poetry series Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 20 people, including Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago; and Beverly Owens, daughter of Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist, at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, IL, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, recites four peace poems and delivers a talk, entitled ‘Helplessness’, in Arie Crown Theater, at McCormick Place, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games held at Columbia University’s Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York, NY, USA.
2000
An exhibition of 70,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the United Nations Secretariat South Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
2000
Grenada is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 28 people, including Dr. Robert C. Atkins, author and nutritionist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Payton Jordan, US Track and Field Olympian and coach, holder of over 60 world records in Masters sprinting, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
2005
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy gives talks on ‘Karma Yoga’ and ‘Jnana Yoga’ at the home of Lakshmi and Narayan (Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Elvira), on San Jose Street in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Dedication’, at the University of Reykjavik, in Reykjavik, Iceland – completing his third European lecture tour – later published in My Rose Petals, Part 4.
1974
Sri Chinmoy first plays the Indian flute, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a public concert at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 1,500 metres (6:15) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 21st of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and Peace Concert in the Madison Building at the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, USA.
2000
Niger and Panama are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Quincy Jones, musician, composer, arranger and producer, at his home in Los Angeles; and later lifts Lee Underwood, musician, biographer, music critic and author, at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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1966
Excerpt from an informal talk given at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Puerto Rico, on September 29, 1974: “Seven years ago, when I was totally unknown to the seekers’ world, it was Puerto Rico that saw something in me. Call it Light, call it Peace, call it Bliss... That is why it opened its heart’s door and welcomed me to be of dedicated service to the Supreme here.
As long as I am on earth and when I am gone, when the soul leaves the body-cage, I shall remember Puerto Rico with my heart’s eternal gratitude and my soul’s concern-light.” — Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Aum Centre (later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre) in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It is legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.)
1974
Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presents President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2.
1975
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Action’, in the Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations, at the United Nations, New York.
1977
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
1981
Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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1944
Together with his brothers and sisters, the twelve-year-old Chinmoy joins the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he stays for the next twenty years before coming to the West. His eldest brother Hriday had already left the family home in Chittagong almost twelve years earlier to join the Ashram. On this day, all seven children of Shashi Kumar and Yogamaya Ghose are reunited.
1971
Sri Chinmoy offers a prayer, entitled ‘Serve and Love’, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, in New York, NY, USA.
1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Human Art, Divine Art, Supreme Art’, at the Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Consciousness’, at St. Xavier High School, New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Museo del Arte, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1988
Sri Chinmoy performs a concert sponsored by the Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 champion runners and athletes, including Sudhahota Carl Lewis, 9-time Olympic gold medallist; Butch Reynolds, Olympic gold and silver medallist, 400m; and Jim Hines, Olympic gold medallist 100m, at the ‘The Morning of Champion-Hearts Supreme’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 22nd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Burkina Faso Award.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy leads the first National Day of Prayer Observance at the United Nations in New York.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 23rd of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Bayard Taylor School in New York, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Peru and Swaziland are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
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JULY 25TH | |
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1966
Sri Chinmoy leaves Puerto Rico to return to New York.
1979
Sri Chinmoy offers a Concert at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Landmark Community Center in Port Washington, NY, USA. At the concert, he recites 20 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
2005
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best lift of 1,200 lbs. using a double dumbbell bench press (600 lbs. in each hand), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee and his wife Sanghamitra, one of India’s leading vocalists, at the ’Oneness, Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon’ function at Aspiration–Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1967
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Students, Devotees and Disciples’, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1980
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in Woodstock, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy composes his 8,000th Bengali song, ‘Phukai Amara Jibana Samare’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1977
Sri Chinmoy and his students perform a concert of spiritual music in the auditorium of Public School 86, at the intersection of Parsons Blvd and 87th Ave, Jamaica, NY, USA.
1981
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday are read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.
1981
The Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix — 31 races over 31 days — begins, in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday. Sri Chinmoy runs 440 yards (402.3 m) in a time of 1 min. 21.1 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy runs 7 miles solo in a time of 52:58 (a 7:34/mile pace) in Westerly, and offers a concert at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ tour. During the run, he records unofficial personal bests times for 4 miles (30:21), 5 miles (38:07), 6 miles (45:47) and 10 kilometres (47:11).
1982
The Governor of Rhode Island proclaims Sri Chinmoy Day and awards Sri Chinmoy honorary citizenship in the state. Providence and four other cities issue proclamations.
1985
The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1994
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. More than 400 people come to celebrate his peace-bird project, which he calls ‘My Three Million Heart-Bird-God-Manifestation-Songs’. Events include, a silent meditation, musical performances, a play and a huge meal.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 31st anniversary of his first bamboo straight flute performance — in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA..
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1981
Sri Chinmoy runs 2 miles in a time of 14 min. 33 sec. (7:16/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy hosts a reception for Vinay Verma, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bösendorfer Center in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 24th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts 13 professors at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Great Drikung Kagyu Yogi, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy achieves an 800-lb lift using a seated one-arm lift in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with the Consul General of India in Chicago, Mr. Pran Nevile, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Chicago. IL, USA.
1979
The first Sri Chinmoy Triathlon is held in Groton, CT, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 800 metres (2:47) on the road at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on 150th Street in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Seventy-five of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala, ‘Fuente de Arte’, paintings are exhibited (8-29 July) for the first time in Latin America at Centro de Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Joe Franklin, TV talk show host of the ‘Joe Franklin Show’, and tapes an interview with him in Secaucus, NJ, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, where he meets with Olympic Relay champions Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh, at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also composes a song, entitled ‘The New York Games’, for the occasion.
1999
Kyrgyzstan is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts Addwitiya Roberta Flack in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Kristio Wahyono, Consul-General of Indonesia to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts 6 planes and a glider at Brookhaven Airport on Long Island, NY, USA.
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1966
Sri Chinmoy’s writings begin to appear regularly in El Mundo in Puerto Rico under the heading ‘Una Pausa en el Dia’. Sri Chinmoy’s words are translated into Spanish by Sudha (Miss Carmen Suro).
1978
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1979
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 937 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.
1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 70 lbs. using one arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 1,500 lbs. using a standing calf raise at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 boxing champions, including Don Lalonde, WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Hollis Conway, 1988 Olympic silver medallist, high jump, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 25th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Patience’, at All Angels’ Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert – the final of 28 given in July as part of his ‘Everest-Aspiration’ series – at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy runs 200 metres in 33.6 seconds — his personal best time in America — during the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 250½ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
The Starr-Camargo Bridge linking the USA with Mexico across the Rio Grande, from Rio Grande City in Texas to Camargo, Tamaulipas, is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge during the 1991 ‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run.
1993
Sri Chinmoy observes his astrological birthday with a morning meditation, during which he walks up and down the tennis court very slowly three times, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 26th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at the Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy lifts an 18-man pyramid weighing 3,587 lbs., using a standing calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Founder and President of the Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and also lifts him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest single overhead platform lift – 4 men weighing a total of 872 lbs. – in Jamaica, NY, USA.