🌼 Saphala Ekadashi 🌼

💐Significance Of saphala Ekadashi 💐

                      In the “Brahmanda Purana,” a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Dharamraja Yudhisthira discusses the significance of Saphala Ekadashi. Hindu scriptures state that following a holy fast on the day of Saphala Ekadashi is more advantageous than even 100 Rajasuya Yagas and 1000 Ashvamedha Yagas. It is accurate to say that the day of Saphala Ekadashi is a day that ends all of life’s sorrows and turns ill luck into good fortune. Saphala Ekadashi has the ability to make someone’s goals and aspirations come true. Additionally, it provides the observer of the Saphala Ekadashi fast with inner tranquility and satisfaction. 

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🍀Saphala Ekadashi Puja Vidhi:🍀

• Get up early on the day of Saphala Ekadashi. Perform your routine activities. 
  
  
• Take a vow of fast by wearing clean clothes and offering water to the Sun. 
  
  
• Offer yellow flowers and yellow objects to Vishnu. 
  
  
• Worship the Lord by offering incense, lamp, fruits, coconut, betel nut, amla, pomegranate, Panchamrit, etc. 
  
  
• After this, recite Aarti, Chalisa, Mantra and a thousand names of God. 
  
  
• Chant “Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya” 108 times. 
  
  
• The donation has special significance on this day, donate according to your ability. 
  
• Stay awake all night, sing bhajans, kirtans, or hymns in the name of Shri Hari. 
  
  
• End the fast on the day of Dwadashi. 
  
  
• Offer food and other donations to Brahmins and the needy. After this, you can eat too. 
  
  

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🌻 Benefits of Observing Fast on Saphala Ekadashi?🌻
 

                                          One of the main advantages of fasting on Ekadashi is that it can make anyone more moral. In the meantime, it might absolve the person of the sins they committed during this birth as well as in previous ones. In addition to bringing happiness, prosperity, and tranquility to a family, this fast also earns the blessings of Lord Vishnu. 

  
                                          The rewards of a thousand years of penance can be obtained on this day by keeping vrat and fasting. Fasting for the entire day has more advantages than taking a sacred dip in the Ganges following Surya Grahan, or the solar eclipse. When performed with sincerity and devotion, the Saphala Ekadashi vrat can cleanse the heart and mind and prepare one for entering Moksha after death. 

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🍀Mantras of Utpanna Ekadashi:🍀 

Gaytri Mantra  
 

ॐ नारायणाय विद्महे वासुदेवाय धीमहि तन्नो विष्णु प्रचोदयात 

Om Narayanaya Vidmahe Vasudevaya Dhimahi Tanno Vishnu Prachodayat.  

  
Maha Mantra  
 

नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 

Namo Bhagwate Vasudevay. 

  
ॐ नमो नारायणाय 

Om Namo Naraynay.  

  
panch-Akshar Mantra  

 
ॐ क्लीं विष्णवे नमः 

Om Kleem Vishnu Namah.  

  
ॐ अं प्रद्युम्नाय नमः 

Om Am Pradyumnaya Namah.  

  
ॐ आं संकर्षणाय नमः 

Om Aam Sankarshanaya Namah.  

  
ॐ अ: अनिरुद्धाय नमः 

Om A Aniruddhaya Namah. 

 
लक्ष्मी-विष्णु मंत्र: 
 

 “ॐ ह्रीं श्रीं लक्ष्मीवासुदेवाय नमः।” 

Om Heeram Shreem Lakshamivasudevay Namah.

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💐Conclusion 💐

                                        Saphala Ekadashi is an extremely auspicious day. One who observes fast on this day bears favourable results in life. It generates a different kind of reverberations into your whole being that takes you towards your betterment. All the fast and festivals in the Hindu culture were not about religion but about the highest way of living that transforms you into a conscious human being. 

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