How to fast for Vaikunda Ekadasi?

Question

Sri Vaikunda Ekadasi is falling on the coming 30th Dec , a holy day for Lord Vishnu, is there any special way to fast .
How to go about it...

Any advice

Answer 1

Don't eat grains, just fruits roots, and milk /milk products. Details on when to start the fast and when to break the fast can be found at the link below
more details
• Restricted foods on Ekadasi:
• Tomatoes, eggplants, cauliflower, broccoli, bell peppers, beets, bitter melon
(karela), loki, parmal, toroi, kunli, drumsticks, bindi (ladies' fingers) and banana
flowers
• Peas, chickpeas and all types of beans, including products made from beans (e.g.,
papadams, tofu, tempeh)
• All leafy vegetables (e.g., spinach, salads, cabbages) and leafy herbs like parsley,
coriander leaves, celery and curry leaves
• Grains (e.g., millet, barley, farina, pasta, rice, corn) and all types of flour made
from grains and beans (e.g., rice flour, chickpea flour, urad dahl flour)
• Starches from corn or grains, and products made from or mixed with these
starches like baking soda, baking powder, certain soft drinks with corn syrup,
custard, certain yoghurts and puddings, certain varieties of cream and cottage
cheese, certain sweets and candies, and tapioca balls
• Oils made from grains (e.g., corn oil, mustard oil, sesame oil) and products fried
in these oils (e.g., fried nuts, potato chips and other fried snack foods)
• Honey, and sweets made with starches
• Spices used on Ekadasi: black pepper, fresh ginger, pure salt and fresh turmeric,
all taken from a new and clean package
• Spices not used on Ekadasi: hing (asafetida), sesame seeds, cumin, fenugreek,
mustard, tamarind, fennel, cardamom and nutmeg
• Foods that can be taken all days of the year, including Ekadasi and
Caturmasya:
• All fruits (fresh and dried), all nuts and all oils made from nuts
• Potatoes, pumpkin, cucumber, radish, squash, lemon, avocado, olives, coconut,
buckwheat, all sugars
• All pure milk products (except yoghurt during the 2nd month of Caturmasya and
milk during the 3rd month)
• For sannyasis, brahmacaris and vanaprasthas: shaving head and cutting nails
is to be done on full moon days
Don't forget to remember God, for this s the main purpose and rule for Ekadasi.
Calender can be downloaded from here


http://www.purebhakti.com/calendar/calendar.php

Answer 2

well, i don;t know the procedure. But if you want to pray, you can pray this way. Take bath in morning and evening, light the lamp and say vishnu sahasranamam twice a day. IF you want to do fasting you can. Coz i belive that vishnu sahasranamam is very powerfull sloga. I even can feel the power of it. Unless you belive in it, you cannot happen to see it. Or you can ask a priest near by temple, or you can call near by temple and ask about it.

Answer 3

God never told to fast.Fasting pooja goes waste,you know y? the actual meaning of UPAVASAM, staying in neighbourhood and eating their food ,not of your choice (like be roman while in rome) hope u got me,.worshipping god with empty stomach is also a bad symptom , as the waste will be reverted back tht is the tthrown out garbage of the food. did u catch my point.So dont do fasting in your life , rather u feed the poor people or the animals like cow the most sacred animal.

Answer 4

Fasting is always good- for both body and the mind

Answer 5

wont simple fasting do?

Answer 6

have a bacon cheeseburger.

Answer 7

You stepped in what????