Ekadashi Vrat

The eleventh tithi of each paksha, kept for Vishnu — twice a lunar month, twenty-four times a year. Grains and pulses are given up for the day, tulsi is offered at every stage of the puja, and the fast is broken the next morning inside the Dwadashi window. Each of the twenty-four has its own name and its own katha; the discipline is identical in all of them.

Next date: 2026-09-07

Deity: Vishnu

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On Dashami, the day before, take a light sattvik meal before sunset and avoid grains after it.,Bathe at sunrise on Ekadashi, wear clean clothes, and take the sankalp before Vishnu, stating plainly whether you will keep a nirjala, phalahar or single-meal fast.,Bathe the image with panchamrit and then water, and offer yellow chandan, yellow flowers and tulsi dal — tulsi is what Vishnu accepts above everything else.,Light a ghee lamp and dhoop, and place the bhog with a tulsi leaf resting on it.,Chant Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya one hundred and eight times, or read the Vishnu Sahasranama.,Listen to the katha of that particular Ekadashi, then do the aarti.,Keep a jagran, or at least an evening of bhajan, and take the paran the next morning inside the Dwadashi window, giving anna daan before your own first mouthful.

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In an early age a daitya named Mura took the three worlds, and the devas, driven from their places, went to Vishnu. The war was long. When at last he withdrew to the cave at Badarikashram to rest, Mura followed him there, intending to strike him while he slept. From the sleeping body of Vishnu a shakti arose — radiant, armed, and fully formed — and destroyed Mura where he stood. Waking, Vishnu asked who she was. She said she had been born of him. He named her Ekadashi, since she had arisen on the eleventh tithi, and gave her the boon she asked for: that whoever fasts on this tithi and keeps him in mind should be freed of the sin they have gathered, and should come to him at the end. This is the origin the Padma Purana gives for the vrat, and the reason it is called the greatest of them — not because it is the hardest, but because it returns every fortnight rather than once a year, and so becomes a habit rather than an event. Each of the twenty-four Ekadashis carries its own name and katha — Nirjala, Devshayani, Kamika, Putrada, Mokshada, Rama and the rest — and each is said to have its own particular fruit. The tithi, the giving up of grain, and the paran on Dwadashi are the same in every one of them.

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Tulsi dal, plucked the previous evening — never on the Ekadashi day itself,Panchamrit — milk, curd, ghee, honey and sugar,Yellow flowers, yellow chandan and a yellow cloth for the seat,Ghee lamp with a cotton wick, dhoop and camphor,Fruit, makhana, singhara or sabudana for the phalahar, and sweets made without grain flour,A tulsi mala for the japa

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