"About fasting on Ekadasi Day, Baba said, "In the state of Karnataka, they say in Kannada, "Bidabedi bittu kedabedi", which means don't give up and spoil yourself. When you give up anything, don't pick it up again. It is a bad habit. Instead, what is happening? They get the flour ready, well grinded and preserve the dough for three days. With this, they make nice, tasteful dosas, South Indian tiffin. So, in Kannada, it is said, "Indu adide ekasasi ondu tindu nalavattu dosa". It means, in the name of Ekadasi, on one fasting day a month, preparations are made for as many as forty dosas. Is this upavasa? No, definitely not."
(From "Sathyopanishad", Pt, II by Prof. K. Anil Kumar, Answer by Baba to Question 148)
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