Kadacha Magazine n.1 (English)

Ekadasi Book (in English), eBook PDF format.

Ekadasi means the 11th day after the full moon and the 11th day after the new moon. The are called Sukla Paksa (of the brightening moon) and Krishna Paksa (of the fading moon).

There are usually 24 Ekadasis in a calendar year. Occasionally, there are two extra Ekadasis that happen in a leap year. Each Ekadasi day is purported to have particular benefits that are attained by the performance of specific activities.

During Ekadasis it is strongly advised to fast from grains and sometimes completely, even from water.

In this book you find all the Ekadasis and the stories related to the particular day.

Introduction The epoch: five thousand years ago; the place: a quiet and luxuriant forest of India; the setting: a conclave of holy ascetics. Suta Gosvami, a young yet already renowned sage arrives. The ascetics ask about his last pilgrimages and Suta tells of having witnessed a great sacrifice, during which Vaishampayana, one of the disciples of the famous Vyasa, tells the wonderful story called Maha-bharata. Saunaka asks Suta to faithfully repeat everything he has heard, and the latter willingly accepts. Thus began the Maha-bharata of Vyasa, one of the most magnificent works that humanity has ever seen.

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