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	Ekadasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ekadasi is the eleventh lunar day (Tithi) of the shukla (bright) or krishna (dark) paksha (fortnight) respectively, of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar (Panchang).
		The Ekadasi observance is an astrological phenomenon and it is observed due to this relation we have with some of the planets in the system.
		Ekadasi day in both fortnights is the occasion when the mind finds itself in its place — in the bright fortnight in the Ajna Chakra, and in dark fortnight in the Anahata Chakra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ekadasi (1009 words)

	Ekadasi
		Sri Ekadasi is the utmost pious activity and is situated as the head among all vows.
		If Ekadasi tithi is not in the sunrise and the tithi begins, say after a few minutes after the sunrise, then we accept that day as previous to Ekadasi.
		Therefore "Ekadasi feast" is an oxymoron, something that was invented by ISKCON in the West.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/ekadasi.htm (4429 words)

	Vaikunta Ekadasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vaikunta Ekadasi, the Ekadasi of Vaikunta (the abode of the Vishnu) falls on the 11th day of the Sukla Paksha (the waxing phase of the moon) of the Dhanur (Margazhi in Tamil terminology) month - the ninth of the Hindu Lunar Calendar.
		Vaikunta Ekadasi: Ekadasi means 'the eleventh' in Sanskrit and refers to the eleventh day of a fortnight belonging to a lunar month.
		If one fasts on Ekadasi day, with full devotion, what happens to him by the mercy of the Supreme Lord, I cannot say (the merit he achieves cannot be described).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaikunta_Ekadasi (1069 words)

	Ekadasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ekadasi is a day of austerity regularly observed by those who follow sanatana-dharma or Krishna consciousness.
		Ekadasi is thus the eleventh day of both the dark and light fortnight of each month.
		Ekadasi fasting is not meant for brahmacaris or sannyasis, nor only for widows.
	www.iskcon.org.uk /snorwood/ekadasi.htm (715 words)

	VNN Editorial - Q&A: 'Ragas & Ekadasi' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Faith requires that it be strengthend by an understanding of the import of scripture for one to progress from the neyophyte stage of devotion to the intermediary stage.
		For these devotees Ekadasi vrata is important as a support for the culture of their particular bhava.
		They are already serving him unlimitedly and he is enjoying unlimitedly, but Ekadasi allows them to somehow serve more, for it allows Krishna to accept more service, as he is (in their minds) more prone to enjoy on this day.
	www.vnn.org /editorials/ET9907/ET20-4334.html (1208 words)

	Sri Ekadasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ekadasi first appeared from the body of Lord Vishnu during the wanning moon in the month of November/December in order to kill the demon Mura.
		Sri Ekadasi, which falls on the eleventh day of each waxing and waning moon is very dear to Lord Hari.
		Observing the vow of Ekadasi is among the first ten principles of the sixtyfour items of devotional service described by Srila Rupa Gosvami.
	www.radhakunda.com /ekadasi (1266 words)

	Ekadasi
		It is said that even if one mistakenly misses the observance of an Ekadasi, he or she may make up for it by observing it the very next day on Dvadasi, and then break one’s fast from grain on the next day, Trayodasi.
		Breaking the Ekadasi fast on the next day with some foodstuffs made from grains is usually done two-and-a-half hours or shortly thereafter from the time of the sunrise.
		In this way, by the observance of the special Ekadasi day and its special fast, a person can accelerate their spiritual growth and awareness, and free themselves from negative karma that will only further bind them to the continuous rounds of birth and death.
	www.stephen-knapp.com /ekadasi.htm (2212 words)

	Essence of Srivaishnavam Practices Ekadasi / Ekaadasi Fasting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ekadasi is the 11th day in the moon cycle, i.e.
		Those who observe on Ekadasi days are keeping fittest health, cleansing their bowel system and mostly free from frequent ailments.
		Ekadasi is also an excellent time to purify the body, mind and thoughts!.
	www.trsiyengar.com /id18.html (913 words)

	Krishna-Gemeinschaft Schweiz: Putrada Ekadasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The glories of Putrada Ekadasi which occurs during the waxing moon in the month of December/January are described in the Bhavisyottara Purana in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Maharaja Yudhisthira.
		By observing this Ekadasi all one's sinful reactions are counteracted.
		By the blessings of the sages and the influence of the piety accumulated by observing Putrada EkadasI, the King begot a pious and brilliant son.
	www.krishna.ch /putrada.html (702 words)

	VNN Editorial - Ekadasi: 'Residing Closer To The Lord'
		So the main principle of Ekadasi is to reside near the Lord.
		We have to become acquainted with the principle of Ekadasi, as we must with all the devotional practices.
		So at the time of Ekadasi, the water in the body rises up by the influence of the moon and puts pressure on the senses and increases our tendency to enjoy.
	www.vnn.org /editorials/ET0010/ET18-6343.html (1294 words)

	Ekadasi recipes
		Ekadasi is a fast day observed by followers of Vaisnava tradition on the eleventh day of both the waxing and waning moon, (roughly every two weeks).
		The purpose of the fast being to minimize bodily activities and increase in activities of devotion, observers either abstain from food completely or omit all grains and beans from their diet that day.
		On Ekadasi, the potato reigns supreme, and meals usually include wide varieties of tastes and textures without delivering the heavy bog-down feeling experienced after eating the same size meals cooked with grains and beans.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Courtyard/8761/f15.htm (230 words)

	Ekadasi Vrata
		It appears that before the request of Lord Caitanya Sacimata was not observing Ekadasi because of her being sa-dhava, which means that her husband was living.
		Ekadasi is observed for increasing the strength of devotion.
		Tamala Krsna: Sometimes we have heard that ekadasi is a inauspicious alignment of the planets and therefore one has to counteract this inauspiciousness by more chanting.
	devotees.krishna.org /Articles/2003/01/004.html (4568 words)

	Ekadasi
		Ekadasi is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Suddha Ekadasi means that the whole eleventh day of the moon elapses during the period between one sunrise and the next.
		Viddha Ekadasi means that the eleventh day of the moon begins on one solar day (sunrise to sunrise) and finishes on the next solar day, that is after sunrise on the next day.
	www.experiencefestival.com /ekadasi (657 words)

	Ekadasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The special feature of Ekadasi, as most people know it, is a fast, abstinence from diet.
		So, the Ekadasi day in both fortnights is the occasion when the mind finds itself in its place—in the bright fortnight in the Ajna Chakra, and in dark fortnight in the Anahata Chakra.
		Thus the observance of Ekadasi has many advantages—physical, astral, spiritual—and because this day has connection with the relation of the mind with its abode together with the moon, you feel mysteriously helped in your meditation and contemplation,—mysteriously because you cannot know this consciously.
	www.divinelifesociety.org /html/dls/calender/ekadasi.shtm (1913 words)

	ekadasi-vratHBV
		Both the Ekadasi from the light fortnight and the one from the dark fortnight are equally powerful.
		O Saunaka, Ekadasi which is the source of happiness, religiosity and good qualities, which is the topmost meritorious day, which is the most dear day to the Supreme Lord, the Lord of the universe, anybody who takes a vow to fast on this day becomes eligible to be completely liberated from this material world.
		Trisprsa Ekadasi, which is free from Dasami, falling in Caturmasya during one of the dark fortnights is said to be observable.
	www.salagram.net /ekadasi-vratHBV.htm (4670 words)

	RamA EkAdasi
		By the potency of Ramaa Ekadasi, Shobhana found his kingdom on the peaks of Mt. Mandarachala able to fulfill all his desires and bestow upon him everlasting happiness, like that achieved from the transcendental Kaama-dhenu milch cow.
		So the Ekadasis of the dark fortnight (Krishna paksha) and the light fortnight (shukla or Gaura paksha) award the same high degree of merit and eventually liberate one from the repeated cycle of birth and death.
		Thus ends the narration for the glories of the sacred Karttika-krsna Ekadasi, or Ramaa Ekadasi, from the Brahma-Vaivarta Purana of Srila Krishna Dwaipayana Veda Vyaasa.
	www.salagram.net /ekadasi-23.htm (1679 words)

	JET: Bheeshma Ekadasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bheeshma Ekadasi is an auspicious occasion, the birth day of Sri Vishnu Sahasra Nama Sthothram.
		Ekadasi day(11th day of the full/new moon phase) is considered to be very holy day on which devotees take minimum food and spend most of their time contemplating on the Lord.
		It is the spirit or bhava that matters; so as long as one chants the name of God with sincerity, considerations such as not knowing the meaning, not knowing the pronunciation, etc., do not matter, and God who is the Mother of all of us will confer His blessings on us.
	www.jetwashingtondc.com /vsn.asp (1276 words)

	Hare Krishna - Vaishnava Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All countries-Fasting for Yogini Ekadasi (refer to the end of the page for the appropriate Ekadasi-diet).
		But if you have observed Ekadasi by eating fruit and vegetables etc., then it should be broken the following day by taking grains at the times mentioned herein.
		Spices that are used on Ekadasi are: turmeric, fl pepper, ginger and salt, taken from a new or clean package.
	members.surfeu.fi /gaudiya/id9.htm (3402 words)

	Apara Ekadasi
		This Ekadasi is so sublime and meritorious that even the greatest sins can be erased by its potency.
		Also, the merit attained by one who donates a pregnant cow, along with gold and fertile land, is attained by one who fasts on this day.
		One who does not observe this fast must be born again in the material world, like one bubble among millions in a huge body of water, or like a small ant among all other species.
	www.goloka.com /docs/calendar/ekadasi/13-apara-ekadasi.html (490 words)

	iskcon.com - Education - Ekadasi
		Ekadasi refers to the eleventh day after the full moon and the new moon (once a fortnight).
		One should fast on the two Ekadasi days, which fall on the eleventh day of the waxing and waning moon, and on the birthdays of Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, and Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
		Completely fasting from food and drink on Bhima-nirjala Ekadasi atones for any mistakes one has made on all the other Ekadasis for the previous year.
	www.iskcon.com /basics/ekadasi.html (561 words)

	SriPedia: Ekadasi
		Ekadasi vratham observance however is different from the observance of the DvAdasi vratham.
		Even on Ekadasi Vratham days, the elderly and the children are exempted from fasting.It is also permissible to observe EkAdasi vratham with partaking of fruits and milk for those who can not observe a complete fast.
		SaasthrAs state that those, who fail to eat on Ekadasi days due to anger, desire (kaamam) or stinginess (lobham) get the full fruits of the observance of EkAdasi Vratham, even if their intent was not on observing EkAdasi vratham.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/cgi-bin/kbase/Ekadasi (1512 words)

	ekadasi
		Sri Ekadasi is the utmost pios activity and is situated as the haed among all vows.
		I very strongly say again and again, 'On Ekadasi, don't eat grains, don't eat grains, don't eat grains!' Whether one be a ksatriya, vaisya, shudra, or of any family, he should follow the lunar day of Ekadasi.
		For any Ekadasis that have not been properly followed there is Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi which we should all observed rigidly to make up for any errors.
	www.hknet.org.nz /ekadasi-page.htm (4309 words)

	EKADASI AND HEALTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So the chances are that, if our body is not pure and balanced with any unwanted stuff, it might surface as a disease, sooner or later.
		On Ekadasi day by fasting, body doesn't have its regular food crunching job.
		Perhaps thats the reason why Ekadasi was given a religious colour.
	www.hindunet.org /srh_home/1995_12/msg00086.html (398 words)

	Utthana Ekadashi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Ekadasi, which occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Kartika, is much more purifying than a bath in the ocean, at a place of pilgrimage, or in a lake.
		Lord Brahma replied, "If a person eats once at midday on Ekadasi, the sins of his previous birth are erased, if he eats supper, the sins acquired during his previous two births are removed, and if he fasts completely, the sins accumulated during his pervious seven births are eradicated.
		This Ekadasi is very dear to Lord Vishnu, and thus it is the very essence of religiosity.
	www.acbspn.com /ekadashis/utthana.htm (3529 words)

	Black Peacock - Vijaya Ekadasi
		Yudhisthira Maharaja said, "0 Lord Sri Krsna, 0 glorious son of Vasudeva, please be merciful to me and describe the Ekadasi that occurs during the dark fortnight of the month of Phalguna [February?March]."
		All the sins of one who fasts on this Ekadasi and hears its sublime glories are eradicated.
		Similarly, anyone who observes Vijaya Ekadasi in this way will always be victorious in this mortal world, and after leaving this world he will reside forever in the kingdom of God.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/205spring/vijaya.html (962 words)

	vaishnava calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The narration of this Ekadasi is explained in the Brahmanda Purana where Lord Krsna speaks to King Yudhisthira in reference to the result one obtains by performing this Ekadasi.
		This Ekadasi is narrated by Srila Vyasadeva to Bhimasena in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana.
		This Ekadasi chapter is found in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana where Lord Krsna tells Yudhisthira how Lord Vishnu rests on the serpent, Sesha, in the Milk Ocean, and while asleep on this day that He turns over from sleeping on one side to His other.
	www.krsna.org /vaishnavacal.htm (5330 words)

	Re: EKADASI AND HEALTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Suresh> On Ekadasi day by fasting, body doesn't have its regular Suresh> food crunching job.
		Fasting on Ekadasi, puts a brake on our craving Suresh> for food.
		Perhaps thats the reason why Ekadasi was given Suresh> a religious colour.
	www.hindunet.org /srh_home/1995_12/msg00108.html (768 words)

	: kamakoti.org
		History of how Sri Sankara had a long debate with Sri Mandanat Mishra on various topics in the poorva mimamsa and in Advaita Vedanta, and how Sri Mandana Mishra was defeated in arguments and how he was given sanyasai and taken along with Him by the great Acharya, is recorded in most biographies of Sankara.
		The presence of a street till recently under the name of Mandana Misra Agraharam, and the presence of a stone icon of Sri Sureswaracharya inside the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Sankaracharya Math (which is in daily worship) confirm the connection of Sri Sureswaracharya with Kanchi Sankar Math and his videha mukthi at Kanchi.
		He attained mukti at Kanchi on Sukla Ekadasi in the month of Meena of the cyclic year Swabhanu (1524 AD).
	www.kamakoti.org /peeth/origin.html (10247 words)

	Pandava Nirjal Ekadasi
		Oh son, Lord Keshava, Who holds the club, disk, conch and lotus flower in His hand, personally told me that all of the merit achieved by fasting on whatever EkAdasis fall in one year can be attained by fasting on this one EkAdasii (nirjalA EkAdasii).
		"One who is physically unable to fast on Ekadasi may read the glories of each Ekadasi when it occurs and recite all the names of the Ekadasis; thus he will achieve the same goal as the person who observes the full Ekadasi vow."
		Water, fruits, roots, milk, ghee, the request of a brahmana, the order of a spiritual master and medicine do not wane one's fast.
	www.hknet.org.nz /ekadasi-14.htm (3479 words)

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