Varuthini Ekadashi: April 13 and 14, 2026, depending on the region. Brings good luck and happiness.
🌸 Varuthini Ekadashi will take place on April 13 or 14, 2026, depending on the region.
🌾Ekadashi is a fast of grains, legumes, and non-vegetarian foods.
🌅On Ekadashi, people fast from Brahma Muhurta (1.5 hours before sunrise) on April 13 until sunrise on April 14. Breaking the fast is after sunrise.
April 13 Ekadashi will be observed in America, Europe, the European part of Russia, and Siberia.
April 14 Ekadashi will be observed in the Far East, parts of Asia, and Australia.
🗓️You can find out when Ekadashi is in your city using these apps (installed on your phone):
📱Ekadashi and Holiday Calendar app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Find it in Google Play by searching for "Vaishnava Calendar."
📱Ekadashi and Holiday Calendar app for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/%D1%8D%...
It's called "Ekadashi" in the App Store.
🤳On the website: https://vcalendar.ru
📜 Bhavishya Uttara Purana about Varuthini Ekadashi:
"Whoever observes a complete fast on this sacred day will be freed from all sins and achieve permanent happiness and good fortune. Fasting on Varuthini Ekadashi makes even an unlucky woman fortunate.
This Ekadashi grants material enjoyment in this life and liberation after death to anyone who observes it. It removes the sins of all and saves one from the suffering of rebirth.
This Ekadashi is pure, enlivening, and removes all sins."
You can choose the level of fasting according to your abilities and achieve the desired results.
📊Fasting on Ekadashi can be of varying degrees of difficulty.
🔹The first level is a fast without non-vegetarian foods (meat, fish, eggs, alcohol, coffee, tea) and grains and legumes.
🔹The second level is a fast of fruits, milk, root vegetables, and water.
🔹The third level is eating once a day (no grains and legumes, permissible foods of the second level).
🔹The fourth level is a dry fast.
💠Full Ekadashi is a dry fast and an all-night vigil on the night from Ekadashi to Dvadashi, that is, on the night of April 13-14, 2026. Observing this fast brings the full fruit of Ekadashi. It is quite difficult to observe and is a level for healthy, practiced austerities. Daytime naps are also prohibited on Ekadashi and Dvadashi. But even partially observing Ekadashi brings great results, especially if one is able to observe it regularly.
🍏It is not necessary to observe a complete fast if this is not possible. There is a verse from the Mahabharata: "Eight things do not break the Ekadashi vrata—water, fruits, roots, milk, ghee, the words of a brahmana, the guru's instructions, and medicine."
🧘Auspicious things to do on Ekadashi: reading spiritual books, chanting mantras, meditation, kirtan, serving God, very simple food (if necessary), nature walks, visiting a temple, spiritual lectures, and watching spiritual films.
🚫Avoid on Ekadashi: sports, massage, daytime (and, if possible, nighttime) sleep, intimacy, heavy work, body adornment and fine clothing, fine food, idle talk, gambling, scratching (until it bleeds), arguing, cheating, and sin.
(These prohibitions do not interrupt Ekadasi; they merely weaken the quality of the fast.)
🗣️Before the beginning of Ekadasi, a vow (sankalpa) is made:
📜"O Lord Govinda, before You I accept this vow of observing Ekadasi. By Your mercy, may it be successful and unhindered. I am a very restless and deluded being, and without Your mercy I am unable to observe this vow."
🙏And obeisances are offered to the Lord and the spiritual master (Srila Prabhupada, if one does not have a spiritual master).
This vow is made on the evening before Ekadasi or on the morning of Ekadasi. One can make the vow in one's own words.
On Ekadasi, it is auspicious to support brahmanas, cows, and needy people. We've been friends with the Goloka cow shelter for many years and invite you to get to know them and help the cows: https://t.me/Goshala_Tulasi
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