Ekadashi upavasa is on Sunday November 21stand Dwadashi parane is on Monday November 22nd after local sunrise.
Significance: This is a very special ekadashi also known as Prabodhini or Haribhodini Ekadashi. It is on this ekadashi day the Gods and Brahma woke up Sri Hari from his yoga nidra by performing prabhodotsava, to rescue the Vedas from Asura Shanka. This results in the matsya avatara and led to the rescue of the Vedas by Sri Hari. This ekadashi also marks the beginning of Bheeshma Panchaka Vrata. Please consult your Gurus for more information. This also marks the end of Chaturmasya and end of dwidaLa vrat. It is also Uttan Ekadashi leading to Uttana Dwadashi. On Dwdashi day Tulsi pooja is done with lots of love and devotion. Please make it a point to take care of your Tulsi plant on Uttana Dwadashi..This day is also celebrated as Tulasi Vivah. draSHtA spraSHtA tavADHyAtA nAmatastutA | rOpitA sEchitA nityaM pUjitA tuLasI shubhA || To see, touch a tulasi plant or leaves. To praise, think or medidate on Tulasi. To water or do pooja to a tulasi plant To do such nine action on Tulasi with devotion leads to Sri Hari's grace. Thats why in kartika month we do pooja to Sri Hari with tender Tulasi leaflets. This is equivalent to do many yagnas and other austerities. Padma Puran Part-3 62nd chapter. Also on the uttana dwadashi day, sleeping daamodara and tulsi are worshipped with shodasha upachara. Tulasi is decorated with ornaments and damadora is woken up with variety of musical instruments ( vadya ghosha ) idaM vishnu vichakramE trEtA nidadhE padaM | samULhamasya pAmsurE iyaM ca dwAdashi dEva prabhOdArthaM vinirmitA | tvataiva sarvalokAnAM hitArthaM sheShashAyinA || utthiShTOthiShTa gOvinda tyaja nidrAM jagatpatE | tvayi suptE jagatsuptaM uttitEchOtThitaM bhavEt || Uttaradi Matha and other mathas: Sri moola raama pooja in the evening as well on uttana Dwadashi day. Please consult your gurus and pandits for details on Tulsi vivah. Story from Skanda Purana Lord Brahma said to Narada Muni, "Dear son, O best of the sages, I shall narrate to you the glories of Haribodhini Ekadasi, which eradicates all kinds of sins and bestows great merit, and ultimately liberation, upon the wise persons who surrenders to Sri Hari. "O best of the brahmanas, the merits acquired by bathing in the Ganges remain significant only as long as Haribodhini Ekadasi does not come. This Ekadasi, which occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Kartika, is much more purifying than a bath in the ocean, at a place of pilgrimage, or in a lake. This sacred Ekadasi is more powerful in nullifying sin than one thousand Asvamedha sacrifices and one hundred Rajasuya sacrifices." Also from Hari Bhakti Vilasa.( Padma and Skanda Purana ) Prabodhini Ekadasi in Kartik: (Sukla paksha) from Hari Bhakti Vilas - Vaishnava Smriti. PRABODHINIM UPOSYA EVA NA GARBHE VISATE NARAH SARVA DHARMAN PARITYAJYA TASMAT KURVITA NARADA (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 16/289 from SKANDA PURANA spoken by Lord Brahma) Oh Narada Muni, one who fasts on Prabodhini Ekadasi, does not enter again into the womb of another mother. Therefore, a person should give up all varieties of occupation and fast on this particular Ekadashi day. DUGDHABDHIH BHOGI SAYANE BHAGAVAN ANANTO YASMIN DINE SVAPITI CA ATHA VIBHUDHYATE CA TASMINN ANANYA MANASAM UPAVASA BHAJAM KAMAM DADATY ABHIMATAM GARUDANKA SAYI (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 16/293 from PADMA PURANA) One who fasts with one pointed intelligence on the day when Sri Hari, Who sleeps on a bed of the enemy of Garuda (snake) goes to take rest in the Milk ocean on the bed of Ananta Sesa and also the day He gets up, gets all of his desires fulfilled. BHAKTIPRADA HAREH SATU NAMNA KSATA PRAVODHINI YASA VISNOH PARA MURTIR AVYAKTA ANEKA RUPINI SA KSIPTA MANUSE LOKE DVADADI MUNI PUNGAVA (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 16/301 from VARAHA PURANA conversation between Yamaraja and Narada Muni) This Prabodhini Ekadasi is famous for rewarding devotion to Lord Sri Hari. Oh best of the sages (Narada Muni), the personality of Ekadasi is present on this earthly planet in an unmanifested form of Sri Hari. CATUR DHA GRAHYA VAI CIRNAM CATUR MASYA VRATAM NARAH KARTIKE SUKLAPAKSE TU DVADASYAM TAT SAMACARET (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 16/412 from MAHABHARATA) A person who observed Caturmasya fast stated in four different ways should end his fast on the Dvadasi day on the light fortnight of the month of Karttika. EVAM YA ACARET PARTHA SOBHANAM DHARMAM APNUYAT AVASANE TU RAJENDRA VASUDEVA PURAM VRAJET (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 16/433 from BHAVISYA UTTARA PURANA) Oh son of Prtha, Oh best of the kings, one who follows his vows properly as it is stated here achieves the highest merit and at last goes to the home of Sri Hari ( Vaikunta). from Padma Puran: In the month of Kartika, 1. If we don't eat outside its equal to Chandrayana vrata. 2. Study Vedas and Vedantas, debate, sharavana etc., is equal to performing to 10000 yagnas. 3. If we even recite a single shloka from Bhagvata purana infront of Keshava its equivalent to hundreds of GodAna ( cow donation ) 4. Listening to Sri Hari's stories and honour the pravachnakara its equal to akshyaloka prapti. 5. Perform pravachana, SharavNa of Bhagvadgeetha no rebirth. In Kartika month people perform the following.. 1. Sri Hari's pooja with devotion 2. Offer various fruits 3. Offer Arghya to Sri Hari via Shanka 4. Gurupooja, AnnaDAna, dAna dhkshina 5. Bhagvata purAna shravana, manana, paTaNa. 6. Pooja to Sri Hari with flowers like Kedhige, agastikusuma, munipushpa and tulasi leaves +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tulasi Vivah Story ( read from Padma Puran Not sure if this is the right one..please correct me if I am wrong ) This is perhaps the most sentimental but not the least important festival which falls on the 11th day of the bright half of Kartik. This story from padma Puran revolves round Tulsi, the plant Tulsi which in her former birth was Vrinda, the daughter of a giant named Nemi, and the faithful wife of Asura Jalandhar. Being born in water Jalandhar claims sovereignty over the ocean and demands the 14 treasures churned out of the ocean in Vishnu's second incarnation. He declares war and becomes a cause of danger to the gods. More so because of a boon that he would be free from death till his wife Vrinda was chaste. As a last resort to kill Jalandhar, Vishnu beguiles Vrinda by assuming her husband's form. Vrinda in her wrath curses and turns Lord Vishnu into a Black stone (Salagram) for his deceit. Vishnu too retaliates but in admiration of her impeachable chastity and piety, he transfers her into the sacred Tulsi plant and promises to marry her annually on this day(Uttan Dwadashi ) of Kartik. The origin of the ammonite black stone or Salagram found on the bed of the river Gandaki may be attributed to their legend. As a consequence, all devout Hindu women worship the Tulsi plant with flowers and milk assuming Lord Krishna to be present on it on this auspicious day. Literally a mock marriage is performed between the Tulsi and the Salagram. The belief is that one who performs this ceremony of giving away Tulsi considering them to be one's own daughters, gets the credit as making a Kanyadan which is regarded as an extremely meritorious act in sanatana dharma. This sacred ceremonial day marks the auspicious opening of the annual marriage season of the Hindus. Sri MadhveshArpaNamastu.
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