Question: I’ve read that if one chant a 1000 names of Visnu it gives the same result as one name of Rama and if one chants 3 names of Rama is gives the same result as Krishna.
Answer by Romapada Swami:
From SB 1.19.6– “According to the VarAha PurAna, as quoted by Srila Jiva Gosvami, there is no difference between the water of the Ganges and the Yamuna, but when the water of the Ganges is sanctified one hundred times, it is called the Yamuna. Similarly, it is said in the scriptures that one thousand names of Vishnu are equal to one name of Rama, and three names of Lord Rama are equal to one name of Krishna.”
We can understand from the above statement the nondifference feature of the Ganges and the Yamuna. We can also understand the difference between the two. Same re. the names of the Lord. The names of Visnu can deliver one to Vaikuntha but not to Goloka Vrndavan in a state of Krishna-prema. While there is a non-difference feature of these two names there is a simultaneous distinction as well.
