RAM NAAM

Ram Naam

Once a Guru or teacher was teaching Vishnu sahasra naam
to a group of boys aged between 8 and 12 years.
Guru chanted the slokam :

Sri Ram Ram Ramethi Rame Rame Manorame
Sahasranaama Tathulyam Ram Naam Varaanane

and told the students, "if you chant Ram naam three times,
it is equivalent to chanting the whole Vishnu Sahasranaam or
chanting Lord's Naam 1000 times. One of the boys was very
naughty and always had questions about everything the teacher
said. Immediately he asked " Guro, how can three times become
equal to 1000 times? I do not get the logic. Please explain to us
how that equation of 3 naam =1000 naam works".

Guru was not only smart, but was a great devotee of Lord Ram.
In one moment, Guru knew how to explain the validity of the
unusual equation.
He said: Lord Shiva says that the name of Lord Ram is the
sweetest of all the words & chanting this name would be
equivalent to chanting the whole Vishnu Sahasranama or
thousand names of Vishnu .

Here is the interesting calculation by which we can prove that
3 times chanting of Rama naam becomes equivalent to 1000
times chanting or chanting the whole Vishnu Sahasra naam.

Take the name Ram. It has two Sanskrit letters Ra and Ma.
When you take the consonants in Sanskrit alphabet,
Ra is the second consonant in the group of five consonants
Ya, Ra, La, Va, Sha and
Ma is the fifth in the group of five consonants Pa, Pha, Ba, Bha, Ma.

When you substitute the value of RA and MA as 2 and 5
RAM is equivalent to 2x5 = 10. Then,
Sri Ram Ram Ram (iti) is equivalent to........................
2x5 x 2x5 x2x5 = 10x10x10 = 1000.

The boy was happy with the answer and started learning Vishun
Sahasranaam with full concentration and devotion.

Jai Shri Ram!
Sree Seetha Lakshmana Bharatha Shathrugna Hanumath
Sametha Sree Ramchandraswamine Namaha.