We were raised on this: do a thing properly or it does not count. Hence the shyness before a first prayer — the tongue slips, the words are unfamiliar, the stress lands wrong, the thoughts wander off, and it feels awkward to begin. Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu takes that shyness apart with an unexpected example. Take the words "halam ṛtam": "ha" and "ri" stand apart there, a foreign syllable wedged between them — and it still counts as an utterance of the name Hari. The same in "rāja-mahiṣī": the name "Rāma" sounds inside it by itself. Then he draws the line: the Name uttered, or heard, or remembered, spoken purely or impurely, even broken by an interruption, is still powerful and still gives liberation.