Ramnavmi fasting help please!

[vijay]

Dear devotees,

 

Please can someone give me insight on when fasting should end today noon or sunset, aslo do we break with grains or ekadashi?

I've heard a few things any references would help to.

 

Thank you!

 

Hari Hari

[narayani]

According to the Vaisnava calender I have, break fast is at sunset.

[Guest guest]

Hare Krsna.

 

We break the fast after sunset with Ekadashi Prasadam.

 

Here are some references from Srila Prabhupada:

 

Srila Prabhupada wants us to fast until evening and have light ekadasi style preparations to break the fast with

 

710407LE.BOM Lectures

 

So this process should be adopted, how to become sukrtina. Sukrti means yajna-dana-tapa-kriya. One must perform sacrifices as prescribed in the sastras, and they must give in charity their hard-earned money for Krsna’s cause. That is called dana. Yajna, dana, and tapasya. Tapasya. Just like tomorrow is Sri Rama-navami. The tapasya will be that all the devotees will observe fasting from morning till evening. This is called tapasya. Just like Ekadasi day–there is no eating sumptuously. Simply you take little fruits and flowers. Try to avoid that also. You don’t take even water. That is really ekadasi. But because we cannot do it–in the Kali-yuga the time is different–therefore we are allowed to take little fruit and milk, which is called anukalpa. These are different methods of tapasya. And yajna. This yajna, sankirtanaih prayair yajnaih, yajanti hi su-medhasah. In this age you cannot perform that big asvamedha yajna, gomedha yajna, rajasuya yajna, so many other yajnas. It is not possible. First of all, you have no means to perform such yajnas, hundreds and hundreds of tons ghee required for putting into the sacrificial fire. You have not even a drop of your ghee. So forget all those yajnas. In this age, yajnaih sankirtanaih prayaih.

 

8-03-26.Letter: Mukunda

 

Please accept my blessings. I am sorry I am delayed to reply your letter dated March 14, 1968, which I received over a week ago. I am very glad that you are repentant even for some action which is not sanctioned by me. This attitude is very nice and improves one in progressing on the path of devotional service. The Rakhi Bandhan ceremony observed by you under instruction of Prasad isn’t approved by our Vaisnava rituals. Of course, such ceremony is observed among the Hindu community as a socio-religious convention. But in our Vaisnava community there is no such observance. Now, forget the incidence, and in future don’t be misled by some unauthorized person. Our next ceremony is Lord Ramacandra’s Birthday, on the 7th of April. It should be observed in the same way as Lord Caitanya’s Appearance Day, namely, fasting up to evening and then accept Prasadam, and all our ceremonies should be performed with continuous Kirtana, of Hare Krishna, Hare Rama. That will make all our functions successful.

 

68-03-28.Letter: Mahapurusa

 

So far the Advent Day of Lord Rama Candra, it should be celebrated as Lord Caitanya’s Birthday was done. Fasting up to evening, and then take prasadam, and chant Hare Krishna whole day, and be engaged in reading and chanting off and on, chant for some time, then read for some time, then again have Kirtana and so on, throughout the day. If you have not got a Ramayana, then you can read Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam, that is all right.

 

770326r2.bom Conversations

 

Prabhupada: Rama-navami is upavasa up till the… Go to observe fasting up to the evening. Tamala Krsna: So moon. Prabhupada: Sunset.

 

 

 

Dear devotees,

Please can someone give me insight on when fasting should end today noon or sunset, aslo do we break with grains or ekadashi?

I've heard a few things any references would help to.

Thank you!

Hari Hari

[vijay]

Thanks, All glories to Lord Rama

[bija]

Readings on Lord Rama can be found in the Srimad-Bhagavatam

in the following locations:

Canto 1 ch.3 vs.22

Canto 2 ch.7 vs23-25

Canto 5 ch.19 vs.1-8

Canto 9 ch.10 and 11