Mokshada Ekadashi 2024: Know the date, time, significance and rituals of the holy day

Updated on: Dec 10, 2024, 10:18:58 IST

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Moskshada Ekadashi, dedicated to Lord Vishnu, will be observed on December 11. (Pinterest)

Mokshada Ekadashi 2024: Lord Vishnu is prayed to on this day as devotees believe it liberates them from the cycle of rebirths and they gain ‘moksha.'

Mokshada Ekadashi 2024: Mokshada Ekadashi is observed on December 11. On this day, Lord Vishnu, the Hindu God of preserving and protecting of the universe, is worshipped. Mokshada Ekadashi is observed during the Shukla Paksha, or the waxing phase of the moon, in the month of Margashirsha. Devotees believe that observing a fast and offering prayers to Lord Vishnu on this day helps cleanse all sins and grant moksha. Moksha is the liberation from the perennial cycle of birth and rebirth.

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Date and time

According to Drik Pachang, the date is December 11, Wednesday. Ekadashi Tithi begins at 03:42 AM on Dec 11, 2024, and ends at 01:09 AM on Dec 12, 2024. Parana Time is on December 12, 2024, from 07:04 AM to 09:08 AM. And Parana Day Dwadashi end moment is on December 12, 2024, 10:26 PM.

Significance and rituals

The word ‘Mokshada’ in Mokshada Ekadashi means liberation, marking this Ekadashi as spiritual. According to Narayan Seva San, religious texts state the significance of this spiritual Ekadashi. Worshipping and celebrating this Ekadashi helps devotees escape the cycle of rebirth. Devotees believe it acts as redemption for past lives’ sins and wrongdoings. The ancestors are also freed from the rebirth cycle and gain salvation.

On this day, devotees observe a fast. Some may completely refrain from water or food, while others may consume Saatvik food. Observing a fast on the revered, holy day has several spiritual benefits. They pray to Lord Vishnu and offer tulsi leaves, flowers, and lamps. To celebrate Lord Vishnu’s holy and spiritual energy during the day, they chant mantras like the Vishnu Sahasranama and read the Bhagavad Gita. On this day, many mediate and donate to the needy. Devotees meditate and seek for spiritual guidance.

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Adrija Dey
Adrija Dey’s proclivity for observation fuels her storytelling instinct. As a lifestyle journalist, she crafts compelling, relatable narratives across diverse touchpoints of the human experience, including wellness, mental health, relationships, interior design, home decor, food, travel, and fashion that gently nudge readers toward living a little better. For her, stories exist in flesh and bones, carried by human vessels and shaped through everyday endeavours. It is the small stories we live and share that make us human. After all, humans and their lores are the most natural and raw repositories of stories, and uncovering them, for her, is akin to peeling an orange under a winter afternoon sun. Always up for a chat, she believes the best stories come from unfiltered yapping, where "too much information" is kind of the point. A graduate of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and an alumna of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, Adrija spends her idle hours cocooned with herbal tea and a gripping thriller, scribbling inner monologues she loosely calls poetic pieces, often with her succulents in attendance. On lazier days, she can be found binge-watching, for the nth time, one from her comfort-show holy trinity: The Office (US), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Modern Family. Dancing by herself to her peppy playlists, however, is an everyday ritual she swears by religiously.Read More

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