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 frequent lectures, including those in the Dag Hammarskjold Lecture Series. This book is a compilation of many of the lectures Sri Chinmoy delivered at the United Nations between 1970 and 1975. Earlier collections of his U.N. Lectures, The Garland of Nation-Souls, The Tears of Nation-Hearts and Reality-Dream were published in 1972, 1974 and 1976 respectively.
Sri Chinmoy, Union-Vision, Agni Press, 1975