ekadasi imp points

Oh king, one should never give up fasting on Ekadasi, even if it falls on Saturday, Sunday, on an eclipse day or on Sankranti day. Ekadasi and Dvadasi are both qualified for fasting. Furthermore, one should fast when Ekadasi is combined with Dvadasi, but one should never fast when Ekadasi is combined with Dasami. One should never fast on the days when Ekadasi is overlapped with Dasami. If one does so, looses whatever merit he had accumulated for one hundred years. ref: https://www.salagram.net/ekadasi-vratHBV.htm If you have observed a complete fast (without even water), you do not need to break it with grains. You can break it with caranamrita or fruit. Those devotees who fasted all day and took nothing other than air, it is advised to drink a mixture of 50 - 50 hot milk and water, sweatened with rock candy sugar after the sun has risen at the appropriate time. The effects of this loosen the mala (stools) in the intestine where all the toxins from the fast have been absorbed, and expell it all within about half an hour. Then take a light lunch, eating only once on the dwadasi. ither way, this is also a good reason to expell the toxic waste malas (stools) collected in the intestine, this is done on the dwadasi morning with the aide of the sweet nectar mixture of hot milk and water of a ratio 50/50 and very sweet with rock candy (yellow lump - available Chinese stores) after sun-rise. If one has fasted completely there's no point in trying to pass when one first rises, as we normally do as there will be no issue due to no intake of food or water on the previous day. However, half an hour after taking the drink the mallas will be expelled from the bod https://www.salagram.net/ekadasi-page.htm#Mahadwadasi. KAmikA EkAdasii - from BrahmA Vaivarta PurANa: https://www.salagram.net/ekadasi-17.htm about each ekadasi https://www.salagram.net/ekadasi-16.htm