Fasting to be observed on 25th OCTOBER 2012
If a person strictly observes Papankusa Ekadasi, hundreds of his ancestors are taken by Garuda to the spiritual world, where they attain their original, four-armed, transcendental forms
The Ekādhaśī that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Āśvina (September – October) is the Papankusha Ekadhasi.
- Whether one is a child, a youth, or in old age, fasting on Pāpāṅkuśhā Ekādhaśī frees him from all sins and makes him immune to suffering a hellish rebirth.
- One can achieve the same merit as is gained by performing great penances for a long time restraining and controlling the senses.
- Although a person might have committed unlimited and abominable sins, he can still escape hellish punishment just by paying his obeisances to Lord Śrī Hari.
- The merits gained by going on pilgrimage to tīrthas of this earthly planet can also be achieved simply by chanting the holy names of Lord Viṣhṇu.
- The merit obtained by performing one hundred horse sacrifices and one hundred Rājasūrya sacrifices is not even equal to one sixteenth of the merit a devotee is able to attain by fasting on Ekādhaśī. There is no higher merit one can achieve than that attained by fasting on Ekādhaśī.
- Whosoever observes it faithfully and even donates something in charity will never see the death personified, Lord Yamarāja.
- Not only that, but ten generations of ancestors on his mother’s side, ten generations on his father’s side, and ten generations on his wife’s side are all liberated by a single observance of a fast on this Ekādhaśī. All these ancestors attain their original, four armed transcendental Vaikuṇṭha forms.
Madhwa saints 