Talk:Ekadashi

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"Ekadashi also coincides with the times when the moon is the closes to Earth ( Perigee) and the time when moon is farthest from the Earth ( Apogee ) . These are also the times of high tide and low tide respectively. During Ekadashis in the Krishna paksha, the moon is the closest to the earth and during Ekadashis in the Shukla paksha the moon is farthest from the earth."

This doesn't seems true... Example try to compare the data on this two page:

http://vcal.iskcongbc.org/Traditional.aspx?Code=52&Location=Budapest%2c+Hungary+(019E07+47N28%2c+Time+zone+%3d+%2b1.00)&Gaurabda=519 http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html

LUNAR DATA: Perigee: 2005-Apr-4 11:11 368490 km Apogee:  2005-Jan-23 18:55 406442 km

VAISNAVA CALENDAR: 2005-Apr-5 Ekadasi (Trisprsa Mahadvadasi) -- Fasting for Papamocani Ekadasi 2005-Apr-20 Ekadasi (suitable for fasting) -- Fasting for Kamada Ekadasi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bela.mihalik (talk • contribs) 11:20, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Do we really need articles for each individual Ekadashi?
Somebody has made short articles for each Ekadashi. They need cleaning up, but before I attempt that, do we need them at all? Apart from the ones that had articles before, do all the Ekadashis each have a separate character deserving of an article or is it enough to have a table of their names? At the moment the new articles all say more or less the same thing, which makes me think that maybe they are not distinct enough subjects for separate articles. Maybe that is just inexperience on the part of the author? As I see it there are three options: What does everybody recommend? --DanielRigal (talk) 18:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Delete the ones with no substantial content
 * 2) Redirect the ones with no substantial content back here
 * 3) Tidy them all up and add information and references to distinguish each one

I think there should be just one page for all these dashis. Field Marshal Aryan (talk) 17:11, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Delete request
"These are also the times of high tide and low tide respectively." This is factually wrong. Actually the highest and lowest tides of a Lunar Month are on Amavasya. On Amavasya the Sun and Moon will pull the sea water at the place on earth where they are in the middle of the sky. So High tide happens at this location and at the antipodal (50% away) location. When this happens the location 25% away on earth will have lowest tide as all water is drawn to the other locations.

Ok! I think you are right but we would probably need moderator permit. Field Marshal Aryan (talk) 17:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Starting some work.
I think the problem with this article (regarding the banner) is that the article does not specify the  Manual of Style guideline being used for a English being used. Without any style specified in the Project Hinduism any neutral reader would think Grammar correction is required. A larger discussion would be required and needs to be started. The second problem is the number of red-links. For now I am removing the hyper-links because there are no corresponding pages. I will then wait to see if there are any responses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikishagnik (talk • contribs) 2017-07-30T22:24:39 (UTC)

Calculation controversy
In the early days of ISKCON Ekadasi was observed all around the world according to the Mayapur calendar - and some devotees still do this, even if it means the moon is in the wrong tithi for that day wherever they are! I'm not sure if this used to happen because ISKCON's founder Bhaktivedanta Swami only carried the Mayapur calendar on his travels, but nowadays in this computer age everyone has access to calculations done for their local time which seems more sensible and appropriate in some ways.

A similar controversy surrounds peanuts which ISKCON devotees used to eat on Ekadasi thinking they were nuts but now everyone knows they are legumes and should therefore be avoided. Also many foods are erroneously called beans when they are not eg vanilla, cocoa, coffee (not that true devotees eat all of those!). Vanilla 'beans' can certainly be used on Ekadasi. Is any of this worth including in the article? Ningnongtwit (talk) 10:55, 18 March 2021 (UTC)