Quote of the day by Premanand Ji Maharaj: "If you want to control your mind, then chant the holy name"

Shri Premanand Ji Maharaj Ji is one of the most revered saints in Vrindavan and worldwide. He was born as Aniruddh Kumar Pandey in a Brahmin household. He is an ardent devotee of Goddess Radha Rani and Lord Krishna. He always give teachings and encourage people to walk on a path of righteousness. He always emphasize on this statement - "If you want to control your mind, then chant the holy name", this is not so simple to understand but need to get into this more deeply to understand it completely. The mind is always restless, think too much, take too much stress, recall the past memories, attachments, break ups, future anxieties and full of desires, fears and a lot more than this. In this situation, Premanand Ji Maharaj always emphasize on controlling your mind is veery difficult but when your replace that overthinking, fear, anxiety with the holy name of the Lord then it becomes bit easy to ignore that worry for sometimes and engage yourself in chanting the holy name. The holy name is one of the powerful thing that is full of high spiritual vibrations. The holy name refers to the divine names of the God such as "Ram", "Radha", "Krishna", "Madhav", "Narayan", "Hari" or any other name related to the God. If you are thinking that these are just words then you are taking it lightly, because these are not just words, these words hold power and has the divine presence in the form of the sound. When you start chanting any holy name of the God then the first changes comes in your life is that you stop thinking the other things all the time or your mind stops overthinking. When the mind gets busy in taking the holy name then it slowly detaches from the negative thought patterns, stops fearing, stops thinking about the future and past as well, stops chasing the desires and learn to rest. It is believed that your mind can never be empty and when you give your mind work to chant the holy name then slowly it starts moving in that direction. In today's world, when people are running after their dreams, trying to fulfill their desired wishes and get money then it becomes very important to keep the holy name in your mind always because once you face the disappointments in life, face challenges, and also if you are heart broken then you become really hopeless and start thinking negative and if you chant the holy name of God then it becomes easy to handle the disappointments and face challenges in life. You don't become hopeless even you become more tough and take things as God's will.