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Fasting on this Ekadasidestroys all terrible curses

The Ekadasi that occurs during the darkfortnight of the month of Jyeshta is

the Yogini Ekadasi. Fasting on Yogini Ekadasi will nullify all

the curses. The curses and its reactionsin this irth and in our !re"ious irthswill e nulli#ed y fasting YoginiEkadasi. $hate"er merit one o tains yfeeding %%&000 !ious rahmana's isalso o tained sim!ly y o ser"ing astrict fast on Yogini Ekadasi. This fastwill destroy hea!s of !ast sinfulreactions and makes us most !ious. (nthe !uranas& an incident has eennoted that )emamali& the Yaksha has

nulli#ed his curse and its reactions yfasting on this Yogini Ekadasi.

The king of *laka!uri is +u era& thetreasurer of the demigods , was a


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steadfast de"otee of lord -i"a.)emamali was his !ersonal gardener.)emamalis daily duty was to "isit

anasaro"ara /ake and ring ackowers for his master& +u"era& with

which he would use them in the !u ao erings to lord S i"a. ne day& after!icking the owers& )emamali went tohis wife for s!end some with her& andforgot to returning directly to hismaster and ful#lling his duty y

ringing the owers for the !u a.+nowing this& +u"era who was totallyangry cursed )emamali to fall in thelower !lanets and to su er from whitele!rosy and to ecome se!arated from

your elo"ed wife. *nd so )emamalifell at once from grace in *laka!uri and

ecame ill with the terri le a4iction ofwhite le!rosy. *s he was wanderingnear )imalayas& he had the wonderfulgood fortune to come u!on the greatsaint arkandeya rishi& the est ofascetics& whose duration of life it issaid& e5tends to se"en of the days of

rahma. )emamali told the rishi all hisstory and asked him for hel!.


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+ind hearted arkandeya rishi re!lied&7 ecause you ha"e told me the truth& (shall tell you a out a fast day that will

ene#t you greatly. (f you fast on theEkadasi that comes during the darkfortnight of the month of eshta you willsurely e freed of this terri le curse.8!on hearing these lessed words from

the renowned sage& )emamali fell tothe ground in com!lete gratitude ando ered him his hum le o eisancesagain and again. ut arkandeya 9ishistood there and lifted ) emamal i u!lling him with ine5!ressi le ha!!iness.

Thus& as the sage had instructed him&)emamali dutifully o ser"ed theEkadasi fast& and y its in uence heagain ecame a handsome Yaksha.

Then he returned home& where he li"ed"ery ha!!ily with his wife.

The arkandeya :urana relates thatthe gods created goddesses from theirown -haktis to assist ;urga in killingthe demon 9akta"irya& the ally of-um a& who had the !ower to multi!ly


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himself into demons of the samestature and !rowess from the dro!s of

lood oo


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of the 8ni"erse as mothers. $hoeing !ossessed y the s!irit of

goddesses ecame yoginis.

The ;uty of the Yoginis is to indicatethe ignorance of the souls y way ofdoing testing and make them surrenderto the su!reme lord +rishna and hisforms to get relie"e from irth and

death cycle. :ractically those who are not ado!ted

s!iritual !ath and not ado!ting fastingon Ekadasi they cannot withstand ofe ect of Yoginis& that why some of the!eo!le getting failed in s!iritual!rogress. $hat is 9eal solution for this!ro lem? $hether it is !ossi le tofollow all astrological and @edic rules in+ali yuga? -urrendering to -u!remelord and following the ad"ice of thes!iritual guru is the only solution.

The age of +ali is the most condemnedage due to its Auarrelsome features.+ali>yuga is so saturated with "iciousha its that there is a great #ght at the


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slightest misunderstanding. The-u!reme :ersonality therefore comesto teach us how to act according to the@edic !rinci!les. (n this age of +ali& the-u!reme :ersonality of Bodheada!!eared as -ri Caitanya aha!ra huand !reached that in this age the @edicacti"ities cannot e systematically!erformed ecause !eo!le are sofallen. )e ga"e this recommendationfrom the shastrasD

)arer nama harer nama)arer namai"a ke"alamkalau nasty e"a nasty e"anasty e"a gatir anyatha

(n this age of Auarrel and hy!ocrisythe only means of deli"erance ischanting the holy name of the /ord.

There is no other way. There is no otherway. There is no other way. The +rsnaconsciousness mo"ement is therefore

teaching !eo!le all o"er the world howto chant the )are +rsna mantra& andthis has !ro"ed "ery much e ecti"e inall !laces at all times. This is the innersecret of Yogini Ekadasi.


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