Mokshada Ekadashi

Mokshada Ekadashi
The day Krishna delivers the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra
Also called	Margashirsha Mokshada Ekadashi day
Observed by	Hindus
Type	Hindu
Significance	Fasting day
Observances	Prayers and religious rituals, including puja to Vishnu and Krishna
Date	Agrahayana, Shukla, Ekadashi

Mokshada Ekadashi (Sanskrit: मोक्षदा एकादशी, romanized: Mokṣadā Ekādaśī, lit. 'The eleventh day of moksha') is a Hindu holy day, which falls on the 11th lunar day (ekadashi) of the fortnight of the waxing moon in the Hindu month of Margashirsha (Agrahayana), corresponding to November–December. Hindus, particularly Vaishnavas, observe a 24-hour fast in honour of the deity Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu.

Mokshada Ekadashi is an auspicious day dedicated to worship of Vishnu for liberation from sins, and to achieve moksha (liberation) after death.^[1] It is celebrated on the same day as Gita Jayanti, the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna, as described in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The 700-verse Bhagavad Gita told at the beginning of the climactic Mahabharata war between the Pandavas and their cousins, the Kauravas at Kurukshetra, deals with a variety of Hindu philosophical ideas.^[2][3]