Ekadashi upavasa is on Thursday March 27th andDwadashi parane is on Friday March 28th after local sunrise but before 7:51 AM.
Significance: This is also called the Papamochini Ekadashi. For the faithful devotee it removes the influences of ghosts and demons. this EkAdashi also awards the eight perfections of life, fulfils all kinds of desires, purifies one's life of all sinful reactions, and makes a person perfectly virtuous. Story of papamochini from Purana: The history of this EkAdasii was once narrated to the Emperor MAndhAta by Lomasa Rishi. King MAndhAta addressed the Rishi, 'Oh great sage, for the benefit of all people, please tell me the name of the EkAdashi that occurs during the dark fortnight of the month of Phalguna, and please explain the process for observing it. Also, please describe the benefits one gains by observing this EkAdasii.' "Lomasa Rishi replied, "The EkAdashi that occurs during the dark part of the month of Phalguna is named Paapamochanii EkAdashi. "'Now please listen to a historical account concerning this EkAdashi and Chitraratha, the chief of the Gandharvas (heavenly musicians). During the spring season, in the company of heavenly dancing girls, Chitraratha once came upon a beautiful forest bursting forth with a great variety of flowers. There he and the girls joined the Gandharvas and many Kinnaras, along with Lord Indra himself, the king of heaven, who was enjoying a visit there. Everyone felt that there was no better garden than this forest. Many sages were also present, performing their austerities and penances. The demigods particularly enjoyed visiting this celestial garden during the months of Chaitra and Vaisakha. A great sage named mEdhAvi resided in that forest, and the very attractive dancing girls would always attempt to seduce him as he was young brahmachari. One famous girl in particular, MaNjughoshA, contrived many ways to allure the exalted Muni, but out of great respect for the sage and feat of his power, which he had attained after years and years of ascetics, she would not come very close to him. At a spot two miles from the sage, she pitched a tent and began singing very sweetly as she played a tamboura. Seeing that he was highly intelligent and learned, wearing a clean white brahmana's thread draped across his shoulder, holding a sannyasi's staff, and sitting handsomely in the asrama of Chyavana Rishi, MaNjughoshA came before him. Captivated, MedhAvi gave up his meditation and decided to sport with her. Forgetting even the difference between night and day, he lost lost track of time and forgot all his duties. He went away with her to sport for a long, long time. Seeing that the young yogi's sanctity had become seriously eroded, MaNjughoshA decided to abandon him and return home. She said. "O great one, please permit me to return home." "'MedhAvi replied, "But you have only just arrived, O beautiful one. Please stay with me at least until tomorrow." "'Fearful of the sage's yogic power, MaNjughoshA stayed with MedhAvi for precisely fifty-seven years, nine months, and three days, but to MedhAvi all this time seemed like a moment. Again she asked him, "Please permit me to leave." "'MedhAvi replied, "O dear one, listen to me. Stay with me for one more night, and then you may leave tomorrow morning. Just stay with me until I have performed my morning duties and chanted the sacred GAyatri mantra. Please wait until then." "'MaNjughoshA was still fearful of the sage's great yogic power, but she forced a smile and said, "How long will it take you to finish your morning hymns and rituals? Please be merciful and think of all the time you have already spent with me." "'The sage reflected on the years he had been with MaNjughoshA and then said with great astonishment. "Why, I have spent more than fifty-seven years with you!" His eyes turned red and began to emanate sparks. He now regarded MaNjughoshA as death personified and the destroyer of his spiritual life. "You rascal woman! You have turned all the hard-earned results of my austerities to ashes!" Trembling with anger, he cursed MaNjughoshA, "Oh sinful one, Oh hard-hearted, degraded one! You know only sin! May all terrible fortune by yours! Oh rascal woman, I curse you to become an evil hobgoblin - pishAcha!" "'Cursed by the sage MedhAvi, the beautiful MaNjughoshA humbly beseeched him, "Oh best of the brAhmanas, please be merciful to me and revoke your curse! Oh great one, it is said that association with pure devotees gives immediate results but their curses take effect only after seven days. I have been with you for fifty-seven years, Oh master, so please be kind to me!" "'MedhAvi Muni came to his senses and replied, "Oh gentle lady what can I possibly do? Your association has destroyed all my austerities. that lead to my anger. The anger then lead to this curse.However I shall tell you a way you can be released from my wrath. In the dark fortnight of the month of Phalgun/Chaitra there is an all-auspicious EkAdashi that removes all one's sins. Its name is PApamochanii, Oh beautiful one, and whoever fasts on this sacred day becomes completely freed from having to take birth in any kind of devilish form." With these words, the sage left at once for his father's Ashram. Seeing him enter the hermitage, Chyavana Muni said, "Oh son, by acting unlawfully in anger you have squandered the wealth of your penances and austerities." "'Medhavi replied, "Oh Father, kindly reveal what atonement I must perform to remove the obnoxious sin I have incurred by privately associating with the dancing girl MaNjughoshA and my anger" "'Chyavana Muni answered, "Dear son, you must fast on PApamochanii EkAdasii, which occurs during the dark fortnight of the month of phalguna/Chaitra. It eradicates all sins, no matter how grievous they may be." "'MedhAvi followed his father's advice and fasted on PApamochanii EkAdasii. Thus all his sins were destroyed and he again became filled with excellent merit. Similarly. MaNjughoshA observed the same fast and became free of the hobgoblin curse. Ascending once again to the heavenly spheres, she too returned to her former position.' "Lomasha Rishi continued, 'Thus, Oh king, the great benefit of fasting on PApamochanii EkAdasii is that whoever does so with faith and devotion will have all his sins completely destroyed.' Sri Krishna concluded, "Oh King Yudhishthira, whoever reads or hears about PApamochanii EkAdashi will rid of their sins and their anger." Thus ends the narration of the glories of Phalguna-Krishna EkAdashi, or PApamochaniii EkAdashi. **From Padma Maha PurAna Part-3 utaarkhanda 47th chapter.
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