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Parama Ekadashi 2026

परमा एकादशी

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Parama Ekadashi is the second Ekadashi of the extra month. Its story is about a poor couple who kept giving what little they had.

Pujas for Parama Ekadashi, in order

Vishnu Puja

विष्णु पूजाMorning, after bath

Vishnu is worshipped as the one who keeps the world in order, with tulsi and yellow flowers.

You will need
  • Vishnu idol or Shaligram
  • Tulsi leaves
  • Yellow flowers
  • Panchamrit
  • Ghee diya
  • Incense
Steps
  1. Bathe the idol or Shaligram with panchamrit.
  2. Offer tulsi leaves and yellow flowers.
  3. Chant the mantra 108 times.
  4. Sing the aarti.
Mantraॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवायom namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Aarti: Om Jai Jagdish Hare

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे।
भक्त जनों के संकट, दास जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे॥

जो ध्यावे फल पावे, दुःख बिनसे मन का, स्वामी दुःख बिनसे मन का।
सुख सम्पत्ति घर आवे, कष्ट मिटे तन का॥

मात पिता तुम मेरे, शरण गहूं मैं किसकी, स्वामी शरण गहूं मैं किसकी।
तुम बिन और न दूजा, आस करूं मैं जिसकी॥

तुम पूरण परमात्मा, तुम अन्तर्यामी, स्वामी तुम अन्तर्यामी।
पारब्रह्म परमेश्वर, तुम सब के स्वामी॥

तुम करुणा के सागर, तुम पालनकर्ता, स्वामी तुम पालनकर्ता।
मैं सेवक तुम स्वामी, कृपा करो भर्ता॥

तुम हो एक अगोचर, सबके प्राणपति, स्वामी सबके प्राणपति।
किस विधि मिलूं दयामय, तुमको मैं कुमति॥

दीन बन्धु दुःख हर्ता, ठाकुर तुम मेरे, स्वामी रक्षक तुम मेरे।
अपने हाथ उठाओ, अपने शरण लगाओ, द्वार पड़ा तेरे॥

विषय विकार मिटाओ, पाप हरो देवा, स्वामी पाप हरो देवा।
श्रद्धा भक्ति बढ़ाओ, सन्तन की सेवा॥

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Many families also worship their own deity on a festival day. Each one opens a full guide with steps, mantra and aarti.

Vishnu Puja

विष्णु पूजाMorning, after bath

Vishnu is worshipped as the one who keeps the world in order, with tulsi and yellow flowers.

You will need
  • Vishnu idol or Shaligram
  • Tulsi leaves
  • Yellow flowers
  • Panchamrit
  • Ghee diya
  • Incense
Steps
  1. Bathe the idol or Shaligram with panchamrit.
  2. Offer tulsi leaves and yellow flowers.
  3. Chant the mantra 108 times.
  4. Sing the aarti.
Mantraॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवायom namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Aarti: Om Jai Jagdish Hare

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे।
भक्त जनों के संकट, दास जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे॥

जो ध्यावे फल पावे, दुःख बिनसे मन का, स्वामी दुःख बिनसे मन का।
सुख सम्पत्ति घर आवे, कष्ट मिटे तन का॥

मात पिता तुम मेरे, शरण गहूं मैं किसकी, स्वामी शरण गहूं मैं किसकी।
तुम बिन और न दूजा, आस करूं मैं जिसकी॥

तुम पूरण परमात्मा, तुम अन्तर्यामी, स्वामी तुम अन्तर्यामी।
पारब्रह्म परमेश्वर, तुम सब के स्वामी॥

तुम करुणा के सागर, तुम पालनकर्ता, स्वामी तुम पालनकर्ता।
मैं सेवक तुम स्वामी, कृपा करो भर्ता॥

तुम हो एक अगोचर, सबके प्राणपति, स्वामी सबके प्राणपति।
किस विधि मिलूं दयामय, तुमको मैं कुमति॥

दीन बन्धु दुःख हर्ता, ठाकुर तुम मेरे, स्वामी रक्षक तुम मेरे।
अपने हाथ उठाओ, अपने शरण लगाओ, द्वार पड़ा तेरे॥

विषय विकार मिटाओ, पाप हरो देवा, स्वामी पाप हरो देवा।
श्रद्धा भक्ति बढ़ाओ, सन्तन की सेवा॥

Add your own deity

Many families also worship their own deity on a festival day. Each one opens a full guide with steps, mantra and aarti.

Other mantras for the day

  • ॐ क्ष्रौं नमो नरसिंहाय om kshraum namo narasimhaya

Parama Ekadashi 2026: date and timings

Parama Ekadashi 2026 has passed. The next date is added here as soon as it is worked out.

Date
Thursday 11 June 2026
Tithi
Adhik Jyeshtha Krishna Ekadashi
Ekadashi begins
12:58 AM, 11 June
Ekadashi ends
10:37 PM, 11 June
Parana (breaking the fast)
5:22 AM to 8:10 AM (12 June)
Sunrise
5:22 AM
Sunset
7:18 PM

Times for New Delhi (IST). Use the city button above for your own city.

How to observe

  1. Take a light meal before sunset on Dashami.
  2. Keep Ekadashi without grains, taking fruit and milk or keeping it nirjala. People with health conditions, pregnant women, the elderly and children can keep it with fruit and water instead.
  3. Worship Vishnu with tulsi and a lamp.
  4. Give something within your means, such as food, clothes or a lamp, gladly and without show.
  5. Break the fast on Dwadashi within the parana time shown.

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About Parama Ekadashi

Parama Ekadashi falls in the dark half of Adhik maas, the extra lunar month that is added about every three years so the calendar stays in step with the seasons. With Padmini Ekadashi, it is one of only two Ekadashis that belong to this month, and like the rest of Purushottam maas it is kept in Vishnu's name, with a special place for giving.

The story, as Krishna tells it to Yudhishthira, is about a Brahmin named Sumedha who lived with his wife Pavitra in the city of Kampilya. They were very poor, yet they never turned a guest away, and Pavitra would often go without food herself so that a visitor could eat. When Sumedha thought of going to another land to earn a living, Pavitra asked him to stay and trust that they would manage together. One day the sage Kaundinya came to their door. Moved by their kindness, he told them of Parama Ekadashi and how to keep it. They kept it faithfully, and the story says their home slowly grew full again.

The heart of the story is not the plenty that came later but the giving that came first. That is why many people mark Parama Ekadashi with a gift that fits their own means: a meal shared, grain or clothes given, a lamp lit in a temple. A small gift given gladly is held to be as dear as a large one.

The fast is kept the usual way: a light meal on Dashami evening, no grains or rice on Ekadashi, fruit and milk or a nirjala fast by choice, Vishnu puja with tulsi, and bhajan through the evening. Some keep a longer, five-day practice that begins on this day, usually in a gentle form with fruit and water. The fast is broken the next morning on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara, in the parana time shown above.

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