Question: Can you call Lord’s name in short form out of love? Will He reciprocate? Will it grant us moksa at the end when we call Him as we die? Even if we didn’t address Him by His full name? For example, some devotees call Kanhaiya, to Krsna and to Jagannath, they call Jagga.

Jayapataka Swami: If a child called out to you, mamma,mamma, mamma. She won’t say your whole name. Will you accept? Do you think that this is your daughter – recognizes you or your son? So like that you are thinking of Krsna and calling Jagga, Jagga, Jagga, will He accept? It is all in the mind, what you are thinking of!  If you are thinking of Krsna, even if you don’t pronounce His name perfectly, He is a person, you are a person, He can understand what you are meaning! He is not like some machine – voice recognition!
16-JULY-2019 CHENNAI, INDIA