Mohini Ekadashi 2028: Date, Parana Time & Vrat Vidhi

Parana (breaking the fast) is on Saturday, 6 May 2028, from 5:36 AM to 8:16 AM (New Delhi).

Break with water and tulsi, then fruit, then a light non-grain meal; a full meal after.

It is the grain-free Ekadashi fast (the fasting and parana rules are on the Ekadashi page), kept for freedom from grave sin and from delusion.

By its mahatmya it carries the merit of a great pilgrimage and cleanses what no ordinary prayaschitta can.

The Kurma Purana tells of Dhrishtabuddhi, the wicked son of the wealthy Dhanapala of Bhadravati, who ruined himself with vice and theft and was cast out of his home. Wandering and starving, he reached the ashram of the sage Kaundinya on the bank of the Ganga, who told him to keep the Mohini Ekadashi; his sins fell away and he reached Vishnu's abode.

Source: Kurma Purana — the Mohini Ekadashi mahatmya

The Mohini Ekadashi mahatmya is given in the Kurma and Padma Puranas; the day-rule, parana and vrat vidhi are those of every Ekadashi (see the Ekadashi page). It falls near Akshaya Tritiya and Narasimha Jayanti.

• Kurma Purana — the Mohini Ekadashi mahatmya
• Padma Purana — the Ekadashi mahatmyas

1. Vishnu is worshipped in his Mohini form, the enchantress who took the nectar of immortality from the asuras after the churning of the ocean.
2. The katha from the Kurma Purana tells of Dhrishtabuddhi, a wastrel son freed from his misdeeds by keeping this fast on the sage Kaundinya's advice.
3. Temples dress the deity as Mohini; devotees keep a vigil with bhajans and break the fast at the Dwadashi parana.

• Pan-Indian (Vaishnava). Kept for release from grave sin and delusion, with a Vishnu puja and the katha of Dhrishtabuddhi.

• Phalahar — Litchi, mango and curd, with makhana roasted in ghee.
• Parana — Tulsi water and a sweet of milk and sugar, the nectar of the Mohini story.

Mohini Ekadashi is kept on the day when Ekadashi of Vaishakha Shukla paksha prevails at sunrise. That day is Friday, 5 May 2028. Ekadashi holds at sunrise only on this day.

at sunrise

Mohini Ekadashi is the Shukla Ekadashi of Vaishakha — the Moon 120°–132° ahead of the Sun (sidereal, Lahiri), with the Sun in sidereal Mesha. See the Ekadashi page for the day-rule and the Smarta / Vaishnava difference; the Gregorian date drifts about 11 days earlier each year.

A lunar date: Ekadashi of the bright half of Vaishakha drifts about 11 days earlier each solar year, then jumps back ~19 days when a leap (Adhika) month is inserted.