Indhira Ekadhasi

Fasting to be observed on 11th OCTOBER 2012

By fasting on Indhira Ekadhasi all the forefathers who are in hell will be at once liverated.

 The Ekādhaśī that occurs during the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada (August – September) is the Indhira Ekadhasi.

• If a person fasts on this day, all his sins are eradicated and his forefathers who have fallen into hell are at once liberated.
• Even chithragupta cannot calculate the merits of Ekadhasi vratha.
• Prahlada says, “Wherever there is a person remaining awake overnight on Ekadashi, which is very dear to Sri Vishnu, all the demigods, including Brahma, Indra and Siva, are all available there. And where there is such a wake going on, all of the great sages, headed by Narada Muni and Vyasadeva, are available there and I (Prahlada Maharaja) who am always engaged in worshiping Lord Shri Hari, am also available there.”
• This Ekadhasi day was created as the Supreme medicine to remove the disease of material world of having a miserable material body and mind.

In the Satya-yuga there lived a king named Indrasena, who was so powerful that he destroyed all his enemies. He was greatly devoted to Lord Śrī Viṣṇu and dedicated himself to pure spiritual life and spent much time meditating on the Absolute Truth.

One day Narada muni suddenly descended to his place. The king respected him and asked for his arrival. Narada mini said “When I descended from Brahmaloka to Yamaloka, I noticed your father in Yamarāja‟s assembly. Though he had been very religious, because he broke an Ekādhaśī fast prematurely, he had to go to the Yamaloka. Your father gave me a message for you. He told you to fast on Indhira Ekadhasi and give much in charity so that he can be free from hell and go to heaven.”

King Indrasena followed the Indhira ekadhasi strictly. As he broke fast on dwadhasi, flowers fell from the sky. The merit that Indrasena earned by observing this fast released his father from the kingdom of Yamarāja and caused him to attain a completely spiritual body. Indrasena saw him rising to the abode of Lord Hari on the back of Garuḍa.

Whoever hears or reads this narration gets the merit of performing a horse scarifice, certainly enjoys life in this world, is freed of all reactions to his past sins, and at the time of death returns home, back to God, where he lives eternally.