Editor's preface to the first edition
The ten lectures in this book are part of a fifty-state lecture tour Sri Chinmoy was invited to give in 1974. The talks in this first series were delivered in January of 1974. The questions in this book were put to Sri Chinmoy by students at the universities where he spoke.
Sri Chinmoy, Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 1, Sri Chinmoy Centre, New York, 1974