Editor's preface to the first edition

Most of these essays and poems were written in India between 1961 and 1962. The poems “Unique” and “Kennedy-Nehru” were written in 1964 after Sri Chinmoy came to America.

From:Sri Chinmoy,America in Her depths, Vishma Press, 1973
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