Why is Mokshada Ekadashi celebrated on the day of Geeta Jayanti? know the importance

Mokshada Ekadashi 2024: Ekadashi day is considered the best day to please Shri Hari Vishnu. On this day people observe religious rituals like fasting, Satyanarayan Katha etc. It is said that the one who fasts on Ekadashi does not have to endure the tortures of Yamraj.

Astrologer Anish Vyas ji says that the basic aim of a person’s life is to attain salvation. To attain salvation, Mokshada Ekadashi fast of Margashirsha month is infallible. Geeta Jayanti is also celebrated on this day, let us know the importance of both the festivals and why Mokshada Ekadashi fast is observed on the day of Geeta Jayanti?

Mokshada Ekadashi on Geeta Jayanti

• Mokshada Ekadashi falls on Margashirsha Shukla Ekadashi. Mokshada Ekadashi this year
• This day is called the day of attaining salvation.
• Geeta was born from the mouth of Lord Krishna on Mokshada Ekadashi. On this day, Lord Shri Krishna gave the knowledge of Geeta to Arjun, in which he told the path to freedom from worldly attachment and attaining salvation.
• It is said that the doors of heaven open for those who fast on this day and recite Geeta.
• When Lord Krishna preached Geeta to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the whole world became enlightened.

Mokshada Ekadashi fasting story

In Gokul Nagar, a king named Vaikhanas dreamed that his father was in hell. Then the king got upset. He told the story to the scholar-yogi Parvat Muni that his father was talking about liberating him from hell in his dreams. The sage told that he had committed a sin in his previous birth due to which he had to go to hell.

He asked the king to take a pledge to fast on Margashirsha Ekadashi and give his virtue to his father. Which will liberate his father. The king along with his family observed a fast on Ekadashi and offered his blessings to his father.

Due to this his father got salvation and while going to heaven he said to his son, may you be well. Saying this he went to heaven. Therefore, it is believed that by observing this fast the ancestors get salvation and heaven.

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