The Importance Of Ekadasi By Janvi Nandwani Pranams

The Importance Of Ekadasi By: Janvi Nandwani

Pranams Om Ajnana Timirandhasya Jnaanaanjana Salaakaya Caksur Unmilitam yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah

What Does Ekadasi Mean? • Ekadasi means 'the Eleventh Day‘ • Once days on each 11

The Moon Cycle? • Two Ekadasis occur in one month. The progression of the moon. • Each arc measures one lunar day, called "tithi " •

How do we Observe Ekadasi? • Anhydrous fast is the most preferred way to fast on Ekadasi Or one can have only fruits and vegetables, but no grains. •

Why This and Not That? • You can eat fruits and drink water • You cannot eat grains on Ekadasi

When and How do we Break Ekadasi? • Break the fast on Dvadasi morning • Take some offered grains (prasadam) • You can also offer the Ekadasi Result • Do you know when is the next Ekadasi coming?

Lord Krishna and Ekadasi • Lord Krishna says that “If a person fasts on Ekadasi I shall burn all sins. “ • He also says, "I shall remove all obstacles in the path of spiritual life and bestow perfection of life“

The Health Benefits of Ekadasi • Fasting will clean the toxins out of the body especially in the digestive system. • The body will feel light and energetic after fasting.

The REAL Importance of Ekadasi To get Bhakti for Krishna • Serving Krishna can only be done when we have Bhakti •

Krishna can be obtained only by Bhakti CC-14 Bhakta āmā preme bāndhi. Yāche hrdaya-bhitare yahān netra pade tāhān Dekhaye āmāre. . (C. C. Madhya 25. 127) [ My pure devotee binds Me in his heart with the ropes of prema, and sees only Me wherever he looks. ]

The Story of Bhakta Keshava Elephant • Guruvayur South India Temple of • Keshava elephant ALWAYS observed Ekadasi. • At end of life, he left the body in front of the temple

Quiz Time! • What is the meaning of Ekadasi? • How many Ekadasis come in a lunar month? • What is the next day to Ekadasi called? • What is the topmost purpose of fasting for Ekadasi? • What items should one not eat on Ekadasi? • How do you break the fast on Dvadasi? • When is the next Ekadasi coming?

Bibliography • http: //hinduism. about. com/od/festivalsholid ays/a/Ekadasi-Fast-11 th-Day. htm • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Ekadashi • http: //www. indiadivine. org/content/topic/1 363533 -health-benefits-of-ekadashi/ • The Vow of Ekadasi • On The Day Of Ekadasi

Thank You! Hare Krishna!