All yogas eventually converge in bhakti-yoga; even a fallen devotee gains more than one perfectly executing duties without Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.7 — September 10, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750910SB-VRNDAVAN [26:22 Minutes] SB-06.02.07_750910SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, Second Chapter, verse number seven. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] [01:43]
Prabhupāda: ayaṁ hi kṛta-nirveśo janma-koṭy-aṁhasām api yad vyājahāra vivaśo nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ [SB 6.2.7] ayaṁ hi kṛta-nirveśo janma-koṭy-aṁhasām api yad vyājahāra vivaśo nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ [SB 6.2.7] So the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu, Viṣṇudūta, declared that "This man, although he was very sinful, but now he is cleared of all sinful reaction. He is now clean." How he is clean? Yad vyājahāra: "He has uttered the name of Nārāyaṇa," yad vyājahāra vivaśo, "not any artificially, but automatically," vivaśaḥ, nāma, "the holy name." Svasty-ayanam: "To chant the holy name of the Lord means to achieve all auspicity." Hare. Now this name, hare... Sometimes the Māyāvādīs, they say that any name, either of Hari or any other demigod, is equal.
No. That is not. That is nāmāparadha. If one thinks that the holy name of Hari is as good as the name of other demigods, then it is nāmāparadha.
That is not śuddha-nāma. So people are being misguided in that way. But the śāstra does not say that. The śāstra says, harer nāma.
Harer nāma [Cc. Ādi 17.21]: the holy name of Hari, Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu, viṣṇu-tattva. Hari means viṣṇu-tattva. There are... Tattva is manifested in different ways: viṣṇu-tattva, viṣṇu-śakti-tattva, jīva-tattva, like that.
So śāstra says that harer nāma, viṣṇu-tattva. Viṣṇu... Of course, Lord Viṣṇu has several thousands of names according to His different activities: Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa, Hari, Govinda, Mādhava—many names. So any name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari...
Harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma. The śāstra reminding us three times. Just like we stress upon something that "Do this! Do this!