18 November 2094
- Tithi
- Shukla Ekadashi · until 9:30 AM
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- Uttara Bhadrapada
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Festival · 2094
Prabodhini Ekadashi 2094
Falls on 18 November 2094 in New York, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Prabodhini Ekadashi
As the Lord wakes today, may something in you wake too: a purpose set aside, a kindness postponed.
उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत ।
uttiṣṭhata jāgrata prāpya varānnibodhata ।
Its meaning
Arise, awake, and having reached the wise, understand.
Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.3.14
When, for New York
18 November 2094
Shukla Ekadashi · until 9:30 AM
Do
Plant a tulsi, or a tree, and give it water this morning as the household gives water to the tulsi.
Leave aside
Waiting for an auspicious date to begin the good you could begin today.
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Shukla Ekadashi
- The Sun is in
- Vrishchika
- The Moon is in
- Meena, in Uttara Bhadrapada
The Moon is eleven days past new in Kartika, the month the tradition holds dearest to Vishnu, and the rains that opened the four months have long withdrawn.
What the day is
Chaturmasya ends. The four months of restraint close and the world resumes — marriages, journeys, beginnings.
The story
3 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 3Vishnu wakesTurn ↻
On Devshayani Ekadashi Vishnu lies down on the serpent Shesha upon the ocean, in the sleep that is called yoga nidra. Four months later, on this Ekadashi, he wakes. Prabodhini means the awakening, and in the Hindi lands the day is simply Dev Uthani, the day the god rises.
Padma Purana, Ekadashi mahatmya; the living tradition.
2 / 3Chaturmas endsTurn ↻
For the four months of the rains, monks stayed in one place and households kept a quieter rhythm: vows taken, journeys put off, weddings waiting. With the waking of Vishnu the season closes, and the world resumes its beginnings.
Skanda Purana; the living tradition of Chaturmas.
3 / 3Tulsi is wedTurn ↻
Vrinda, a woman of unbending devotion, is said to have become the tulsi plant, and Vishnu, as the Shaligram stone, is wed to her every year. On this day or the next, households dress the tulsi as a bride and hold her wedding in the courtyard, and with it the season of weddings opens.
Padma Purana; Tulsi Vivah as the living tradition keeps it.
The days around it
2 days kept as one season. Each has its own page.
What is said, and what is so
Often said
Anything begun during Chaturmas is bound to fail.
The root
The four months were a season for staying, listening and inward practice, kept when the rains made roads hard and life slowed. They were a time for depth, not a curse on what is begun.
Often said
While Vishnu sleeps, the world is left unguarded.
The root
His sleep is yoga nidra, rest held inside full awareness. The image is of one who rests without ever letting go; the waking is a celebration, not a rescue.
How to keep Prabodhini Ekadashi
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 3.
Plant a tulsi, or a tree, and give it water this morning as the household gives water to the tulsi.
Rise before dawn, as the god is woken, and sit for ten minutes before the day begins.
Say the name of Vishnu, or the name you hold dearest, one hundred and eight times, slowly.
Each act is free and done by you. Keeping one writes it to your karma ledger with the day's panchang. Nothing here is ever bought, and no act is a remedy.
The family's part
The youngest
Decorates the tulsi with a red cloth and flowers for her wedding.
The eldest
Leads the song that wakes the god, as it was sung in their own home.
Everyone
Each person names one thing they set down four months ago and whether they will take it up again.
How India keeps it
The Hindi heartland
As Dev Uthani, women draw the god's feet in rice paste, sing him awake, and raise a canopy of sugarcane for the tulsi's wedding.
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Kartiki Ekadashi brings the warkaris to Vitthal a second time in the year, after the great Ashadhi wari.
Across India
The day opens the season of weddings, and many families fix their dates from it.
The day, for New York
The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.
For another city
The stories, their sources and the regional customs on this page await a scholar's review. The sky and the dates are computed for your city.