Editor's preface to the first edition

Since the spring of 1970, Sri Chinmoy has been conducting meditations for United Nations delegates and staff and delivering the monthly Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture Series. This book is a compilation of the lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered at the United Nations between January 1973 and August 1974. An earlier collection of his UN lectures, The Garland of Nation-Souls, was published in 1972.},