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Dear all,

Regarding ekadasi,Padma Purana says:

ekadasyam samayantyam prapunantyam jagattrayam
sthatavyam annamasritya bhavata papa purusa

sansare yani papani tany eva ekadasi dine
annam asritya tisthanti sriman narayana ajnaya

(Padma Purana, Kriya Yogasara 22.46.50)

When ekadasi arrives, at that time, all of the sins
from the three worlds reside in grains in the form of
a sinful person.

Whatever sins are available in this world, they all
together reside in grains on Ekadasi day by the order
of Lord Sri Narayana.

Brahma-vaivarta Purana says "Ekadasi destroys all a
person's sin, bestows limitless piety, and causes them
to remember Govinda."

Thus, there are three aspects mentioned here to
following Ekadasi (1) removal of bad karma, (2) gain
of good karma, and (3) remembrance of Govinda.

ekadasi vrata samam vrata nasti jagattraye
anicchaya'pi yat krtva gatir evam vidha'vayoh
ekadasi vratam ye tu bhakti bhavena kurvate
na jane kim bhavet tesam vasudeva anukampaya

(Padma Purana, Kriya Yogasara 23.172,173)

In the three worlds, there is no kind of fasting which
is even comparable to the Ekadasi fast. Even if one
performs this fast without a proper attitude, he
achieves the Supreme Abode. Anyone who fasts on
Ekadasi day, with full devotion, what happens to him
by the mercy of the Supreme Lord, I can not say (how
much merit gets cannot be described).

Vaishnavas follow ekadasi, because they are MAdhava
Tithi, days very dear to the Lord. They consider it as
anukulyasya sankalpam, accepting things favourable in
the service to the Lord.Those who eat nothing other
than prasadam at any time, sometimes even do not eat
even that, for fasting on the day of ekadasi.
They don't follow it because it destroys papa or
bestows punya or even as an upaya for moksha, but only
as service to the Lord.

Ramanuja dasi
Vedavalli Ranganathan
--- Guna Venkat <gunsee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sri:
>   Adiyen wish to intervene and get myself clarified
> with some of my basic doubts, 
>   initally I wish to query the objective of the
> vratham , if its for some purushArtham like
> attaining more knowlede on Him, or attaining abode
> or controlling our physics/chemisstry of the dheham 
>    
>   Let we take the case of top 2 attaining more
> gnAnam or even attaining him , here our sampradayam
> is very clear by No way or these are no means of
> attaining Him een against our swaroopam too , let we
> take it that we follow that as our elders follow ,
> agreed then think about the case of His prasadam ,
> now I see a height of negligence that we wont take
> His prasdam and we will give it some one else , 
>    
>   This looks like non appreciation of Archa Moorthy
> at our divya desam or any temple even our Athu Koil
> Alwar , He is same every where and thats His prasdam
> , all the vrathan we follow (as per earlier para) is
> for getting a kainkaryam at His thiruvady and on
> getting the same what more you need ? I am surprised
> . Thats the reason why our poorvAcharyas never dwelt
> too much on the Akaram or any vratham etc , because
> these are dheham sambanda vishayangal and non Athma
> sambandam and for our Athama He blesses with his
> Krupai and thats His Job too and so what ever you do
> to take care of dheham is only for a particualr time
> period and its not reklevant afterwards .
>    
>   If you choose to have vratham for any medical
> advises or dieting its totally differrent science
> and let we take it offline
>    
>   So Adiyen's request is to conside His prasdam as
> the top most and never ever show any negliegence on
> that on any day , 
>   Though I have seen the cases of both negligence
> and adoption to the core in our temples adiyen prays
> to Him for blessing us with the mind of adoption to
> the core
>    
>   Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan
>   Guna
> 
> varadha rAmAnuja dAsan
> <varadha.ramanujadasan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>             srI: 
>   srimathE rAmAnujAya namaha:
>    
>   Obviously, ekAdasi is meant for all of us and not
> for him. He can be offered his usual offerings. Some
> people claim that taking prasAdam is ok. But thats
> not right. Actually the concept is that on all days
> we are supposed to be taking ONLY prasAdam. So
> fasting on EkAdasi day obviously means fasting from
> everything (which includes prasadam - rice that is
> offered). When adiyEn asked this to a scholar, he
> mentioned that there are levels of vrata. (Nirjala,
> jala, phala etc). One can a level choose that suits
> his level of practice and should follow it strictly
> and try to reach next higher level over a period of
> time. But what about prasadam that is offered to the
> Lord? Wasting it is also a sin. That prasadam can be
> given to people who are at the level of taking that
> prasadam (old people, people who are not well et
> al). People who are young and fit should necessarily
> try to follow nirjala EkAdasi (NOT taking the Lord's
> prasadam also). To reach that level, they can take
> prasadam
>  like fruits (again that should also be necessarily
> ONLY prasadam -it should first be offered to the
> Lord). adiyEn has heard a full lecture by velukkudi
> swami (30 mins) on the importance of eating ONLY
> prasadam. 
>    
>   kshamikka prarthikkirEn.
>    
>   adinAyEn,
>   varadha rAmAnuja dasan. 
>   
> 
>          
> 
>               
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