Bhaimi Ekadasi
Tue, 23 Feb
|Fasting From Grains
Bhaimi Ekadasi, fasting from grains and beans, also fasting until noon in observance of tomorrow's appearance of Varahadeva. Feasting happens tomorrow.


Time & Location
23 Feb 2021, 00:00 GMT – 24 Feb 2021, 11:05 GMT
Fasting From Grains
About the event
Bhaimi Ekadasi (Jaya Ekadasi) It is said that if one observes upavasa on this day then one receives entrance to Visnu's abode, even though one has not performed the other vratas of the year. The half day fast (vrata) for the appearance of Lord Varahadev is also observed on this Ekadasi day, and the utsav (festival celebration - pujas and feasting, etc.) is observed on the Dvadasi, which is when He appeared.
Ekadasi means eleven in Sanskrit. On every eleventh day, there is a day of fasting from grains and beans which is set aside for us to focus on our spiritual life and meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna.
Srila Prabhupada said we can observe the fast by avoiding food with grains and beans and eating only light foods. Fasting should cause buoyancy of feeling and not tiredness or fatigue. We should only practice as much fasting…