Krishna Katha - Verse for meditation - 05/01/2012 - Sri Vaikuntha Ekadasi today - please see some attached pictures of Lord Sri Ranganatha

SB 2.1.6

etavan sankhya-yogabhyam
sva-dharma-parinisthaya
janma-labhah parah pumsam
ante narayana-smrtih

 

etavan—all these; sankhya—complete knowledge of matter and spirit; yogabhyam—knowledge of mystic power; sva-dharma—particular occupational duty; parinisthaya—by full perception; janma—birth; labhah—gain; parah—the supreme; pumsam—of a person; ante—at the end; narayana—the Personality of Godhead; smrtih—remembrance.

 

The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers, or by perfect discharge of occupational duty, is to remember the Personality of Godhead at the end of life.

Sukadeva Gosvami

Please find some reading material about Sri Vaikunta Ekadasi at Srirangam in the URL below - the correspondent has used the term IDOL - should be DEITY. Not idol.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/article2776944.ece