can we sweetcorn on ekadasi?

[Guest guest]

Nitai Gaura Haribol!

 

pranams!

 

Dear devotees, is it ok to eat sweetcorn on Ekadasi? Is it a vegetable? Or a grain food?

 

pranams!

 

Gaurahari dasi.

[Guruvani 0]

corn is a grain, not a vegetable.

 

Corn flour makes bread.

 

Corn has always been considered a grain around the Hare Krishna movement.

[Guest guest]

Corn is certainly a grain. Good of you to ask. Quinoa is good though!

[celina12 0]

I don't think you can.

[stonehearted 0]

Here's a big part of the problem with observing ekadashi among many devotees: We wonder what we can get away with. (Hmmm . . .is chocolate really a "bean?" Can I have a soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup? What about simply wonderfuls?) It's one day twice a month. A little inconvenience (if you insist on seeing it that way) for the Lord. Once in Honolulu Srila Prabhupada told us to eat leaves and fruits that had fallen from trees on Ekadasi. (He was chuckling when he said it. The devotees had brought a plate of cookies at guru-puja. He asked, "Isn't it ekadashi today?"

 

The boastful reply: "These are made from potato flour, Srila Prabhpada!"

 

His response: "You should eat leaves and fruits fallen from trees."

 

Moral: The question is not what you can eat, but what you can do for the Lord's pleasure. The point of observing a fast on ekadashi is to give extra attention to Krishna.