What is the importance of Ekadashi and of visiting temple on Ekadashi?

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importance of Ekadashi and the benefit of visiting temple on Ekadashi? Yes Ekadashi is an opportunity for us to do intensely at least for what for one day what we are meant to do normally that means the idea is that for us as sadhakas to practice intense bhakti constantly is not very easy so what we can do is at least for one day we practice intense bhakti and by that intense practice of bhakti we become, we get a taste of Krishna consciousness and that taste increases more and more closer and closer to Krishna so all the Ekadashi we may fast but fasting is not the primary purpose of Ekadashi sometimes we may fast we may fast and then we may go and see who is eating what this person eats so much Ekadashi and you are eating sweets, you are eating this eating that if we are doing like that then our body may be fasting but our ego is feasting so the purpose of fasting is not to just show how sense controlled we are to the world, the purpose of fasting is to increase our meditation on Krishna, to put aside bodily distractions so that we can increase our focus on Krishna and we decide that whatever bhakti that we do on Ekadashi Ekadashi is a special day for Lord Vishnu and I said whatever bhakti we do on Ekadashi on that day we get special mercy, we get much much more devotional credits for whatever we do on Ekadashi and that’s why any devotional activity that we do on Ekadashi such as coming to temple that is very beneficial so if we can’t come to temple regularly at least we can come on Ekadashi and the important thing is we try to increase our remembrance of Krishna and the more we remember Krishna, more we try to connect with Krishna especially on sacred days like Ekadashi the more we can come closer