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Yogini Ekadashi Katha: Read this Vrat Katha to get full fruit of your Fast on this Yogini Ekadashi

Yogini Ekadashi Vrat Katha: The vrat of Yogini Ekadashi is dedicated to great Lord Vishnu. This vrat has great importance in hinduism. On of the main r…

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Yogini Ekadashi Katha: Read this Vrat Katha to get full fruit of your Fast on this Yogini Ekadashi

Yogini Ekadashi Vrat Katha: The vrat of Yogini Ekadashi is dedicated to great Lord Vishnu. This vrat has great importance in hinduism. On of the main reason, why this Vrat is important is, becuase after this day Devshayani ekadashi falls, on which day Lord Vishnu will go to ‘Yoga Nidra‘. Yogini Ekadashi is falling on 05 July, Monday this year. Let us tell you, it is believed by devotees of Shrihari, that those who worships Lord Vishnu on this day, with full devotion, they will get freedom from all there Sins, and will get place in the feets of Lord Vishnu.

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Yogini Ekadashi Vrat Katha

The katha of Yogini Ekadashi Vrat was narrated by Lord Krishna himself to Dharmraj Yudhishthira. Lord Krishna told Yudhishthira that O king! Listen, I’m telling you the story of Yogini Ekadashi as described in the Puranas.

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Lord Krishna Said – Once upon a time there was a king named Kubera in heaven, he was a devotee of great Lord Shiva. He used to worship Shiva every day. He had a gardener named Hem, who brought flowers for worship for the King to worship Lord Shiva. The Hem gardener had a very beautiful wife named Vishalakshi, on whose beauty the gardener was enamored.

One day in the morning Hem Gardener plucked flowers from Mansarovar, but after being enamored with his beautiful wife at home, he did not reach the king till noon. King Kuber was late for worship. Knowing the reason for the delay, Kuber became very angry and cursed the gardener. Kuber said that you have given priority to sex power over devotion to God, you will fall from heaven and you will suffer the pain of female separation and leprosy on earth.

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As a result of the curse of Kubera, the gardener Hem fell on the earth, he got leprosy and his wife also left. Hem endured many sufferings on earth for years. One day he had a vision of Markandeya Rishi. He narrated all his agony to them and asked the way of his atonement. Rishi Markandeya told him about the importance of fasting on Yogini Ekadashi.

He said that this Yogini Ekadashi fast dedicated to Lord Vishnu will end all your sins and you will again attain heaven by the grace of God. Hem, the gardener kept the fast of Yogini Ekadashi with full devotion. Lord Vishnu forgave all his sins and gave him a place in heaven again.

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