14 Sep 2024 evening – Ekadasi Tithi (Hindi) | Murwillumbah, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • 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.

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