Do you ever feel that you need more of something 'good' in order to cope with everyday life? More peace, more love, more positive energy, more patience...? In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers some simple but very effective mantra exercises that help to bring forward our latent inner qualities from the inmost recesses of our spiritual heart. Sri Chinmoy also offers some sage advice on the value of repeating mantras aloud.

Please inwardly repeat the word "love, love, love", most soulfully. While uttering "love" most soulfully, please try to feel that this word is reverberating in the inmost recesses of your heart. "Love, love, love." If you care more for the concept of peace, divine peace, then please chant the word "peace" inwardly, or repeat it to yourself. Try to hear the sound, the cosmic sound that embodies that word. The word "peace" will be a seed-sound reverberating the very depths of your heart. If you want light, then please repeat the word "light, light, light." While uttering the word, chanting or soulfully repeating, please feel that you have become that word, or divine quality. Feel that your very existence, from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head, has become love, or the quality you are repeating. All your nerves, your subtle body, your physical body, everything, everything is flooded with love. The quality has that magic power. Love. Peace. Light. Delight. You choose the divine quality which you wish to embody and become. (Source: Prayer-World, Mantra-World, Japa- World)

I know that some of you repeat 'AUM' and 'Supreme' at home. It is wonderful that you practice this, but please practice it aloud, not silently. Let the sound of the mantra vibrate even in your physical ears and permeate your entire body. (Source: Prayer-World, Mantra-World, Japa- World)

A mantra is a seed.
It develops into a plant.
The plant grows into a tree.
The tree bears fruits.
But who can eat them?
Only he who is sincerity's delight
And
Intensity's height.
– Sri Chinmoy