14/09/24 evening – Ekadasi Tithi (English translation) | Murwillumbah, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Incorrect ways of following ekadasi.
We should follow all ekadasis from eight to eighty years of age.
The names for Ekadasi: Madhavi Tithi, Bhakti Janani, Harivasara Tithi.
The two meanings of upavasa: to sit and be close to God during the fast.
There is no difference between God Himself and His name.
One should not eat the night before and eat only once during the day before ekadasi and do nirjala on the day of ekadasi.
The rules that should be followed on the day of ekadasi.
The importance of paran (time of breaking the fast on the day after ekadasi).
On dvadasi one should eat at most twice.
Following an ekadasi in a pure way, following all the rules and regulations, the fruits are immense.
The true story of the ghost in the abandoned house where Vaikanasa Maharaja, a diksa disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, spent the night.
It is possible to give the fruit of an ekadasi to a dying person, for example, to help free him/her.
Whoever does not wear tulasi-mala around the neck and tilaka, the Yamadutas take that person after death.
The body of a ghost is a body of suffering.
The ghost can be freed by offering it the fruit of an ekadasi or caranamrta (water that washed the feet of a Vaisnava).
The story of Paresananda Brahmacari who currently resides in Gopinatha Bhavan, and one day fell in love with a ghost.
The glories of ekadasi.
The brahmanas of Jagannatha Puri do not give correct instructions on Ekadasi.
Mahaprabhu’s pastime when he received Jagannatha Prasada on an Ekadasi day.
