Indira Ekadashi 2024: Date, Shubh muhurat, significance

Indira Ekadashi 2024: Indira Ekadashi is one of the most important Hindu festivals dedicated to Lord Vishnu. This festival holds its own religious and spiritual significance among Hindus. Indira Ekadashi is a holy day that honors our ancestors and frees them from ancestral debts. On this day, devotees observed fast to please the Lord and seek his blessings.

Throughout the year, we celebrate the 24 Ekadashi, among them, this particular Ekadashi stands out as it takes place during the Krishna Paksha for the Ashwin month. In this article, we are sharing the form data to puja timing.

Indira Ekadashi 2024: Date and Timing

In 2024, the Indira Ekadashi is celebrated today, Saturday, September 28. As per the Drik Panchange, the auspicious timing to celebrate the significant Hindu festival is as follows:

• Parana Time – 06:13 AM to 08:36 AM, September 29
• On Parana Day Dwadashi End Moment – 4:47 PM, September 29
• Ekadashi Tithi Begins – 1:20 PM on September 27
• Ekadashi Tithi Ends – at 2:49 PM on September 28

Indira Ekadashi 2024: Significane

Indira Ekadashi holds religious significance in the Hindu religion. It is one of the highly significant Hindu festivals in the calendar as it falls during Pitru Paksha when ancestors come down on earth from Pitru Loke for 16 days. Devotees celebrate this festival through rituals, fasting, and prayers to Lord Vishnu, pursuing blessings for themselves and the sole of their deceased loved ones.

Moreover, the fast frees the devotees from the birth and death cycle and people get salvation or Moksha. It is believed that fasting and acts of devotion during this time strengthen the bond between the living and the departed, ensuring that the ancestors remain satisfied and blessed.

Indira Ekadashi 2024 Puja Rituals

• Get up early in the morning and take a holy bath before the puja rituals.
• Clean the puja room
• Inaugurate an idol of Lord Vishnu, light he deep with desi ghee.
• Offers garlands, fruits, Tulsi, and homemade sweets.
• Prepare sattvik food and offer it to Brahmins and cows, dogs, and ants.
• Recite the Bhagavad Gita
• Break your fast the next dau on Dwadashi Tithi

Note: Remember that plucking Tulsi leaves is prohibited on this day.