Ekadashi — Less known facts

You will be amazed to read all this. Worth spending time.

Significance of numeral 11

There are 11 sensors in our body

5 knowledge acquiring senses — touch, test, hearing, sight and smell

5 working senses — legs, hands, tongue, rectum and genitals

Mind is the eleventh sense

Ekadashi works on all these 11 senses.

DNA and lifespan

There is something in human body which is called as junk DNA. It means that DNA that has no information on it.

Junk DNA is like casing at the end of shoeless and it protects the other information.

Every time when the cell duplicates, a small piece of of junk DNA is lost. Every time you lose a piece of junk DNA your life span reduces.

In medical terms this junk DNA is called as telomere.

Scientists have discovered that there are two ways to increase our lifespan

1. To reduce the duplication of cell

2. To reduce the telomere loss.

Reducing the calorie intake can achieve this but it’s not feasible to follow it rigorously as it can make us feel tired and low. Ekadashi fast helps us achieve this.

Ekadashi and Ayurveda

As per Ayurveda it is mentioned in Patanjali sutras that to slower down the cell duplication and telomere loss

1. Non vegetarian people should keep complete one month fast from sunrise to sunset

2. Vegetarian people should keep 36 hours fast every two weeks.

Ekadashi and Eligibility

Who can keep fast for Ekadashi?

In Padma Purana it is mentioned that everyone between the age 8 to 80 can and should keep fast for ekadashi it is also scientifically proven.

Ekadashi and what to avoid

As we all know grains retains water. On the eleventh day that is the ekadashi tithi, the tides of moon are very high. We can observe the effect clearly in sea waves. Human body consists of more than 70% of water so if we consume grains the water will be retained and this much water can cause health hazards. So we should avoid eating grains. Lukewarm water is best to have as it reduces the acids.

Ekadashi and diseases

In the year 2009, scientists have done research on all these things and got a Nobel prize this is even mentioned that most of the diseases are cost for accelerated on the 11th day.

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