Dev Uthani Gyaras 2025: Date, Significance and Rituals

Dev Uthani Gyaras, also known as Dev Uthani Ekadashi or Prabodhini Ekadashi, is a festival that marks a new beginning in the Hindu calendar. Celebrated with devotion and joy across India, this auspicious day not only holds deep spiritual meaning but also signals the start of the wedding and festive season. Let’s explore when Dev Uthani Gyaras is observed in 2025, its significance, traditional story and the rituals that make it so special.

When is Dev Uthani Ekadashi Celebrated?

• Date: Kartik month, Shukla Paksha Ekadashi (Dev Uthani Ekadashi)
• In 2025: Saturday, 1 November 2025
• Parana (Breaking the Fast): 2 November, 01:31 PM to 03:46 PM
• Ekadashi Begins: 1 November 2025, 9:11 AM
• Ekadashi Ends: 2 November 2025, 7:31 AM

Significance of Dev Uthani Ekadashi

• Awakening of Lord Vishnu: It is believed that Lord Vishnu enters a divine sleep (Yog Nidra) on Ashadha Shukla Ekadashi and awakens on Kartik Shukla Ekadashi (Dev Uthani Gyaras). With his awakening, auspicious activities such as weddings, housewarmings and other ceremonies resume.
• Tulsi Vivah and Shaligram Worship: Tulsi Vivah, the symbolic marriage of the Tulsi plant and Shaligram (a form of Vishnu), is performed, seeking blessings for happiness, prosperity and marital bliss.
• Spiritual and Social Renewal: According to scriptures, observing this fast and worship brings peace, merit and spiritual progress. Offering Tulsi leaves to Lord Vishnu is believed to yield the merit of donating thousands of cows.
• New Beginnings: After Dev Uthani Gyaras, the community resumes all auspicious events, infusing life with positivity and hope.

The Story of Dev Uthani Ekadashi

As per ancient texts, a king and his people observed the Ekadashi fast. One day, a man asked the king for work, agreeing to a condition that he would not receive food on Ekadashi. However, on the fasting day, he became desperate for food. The king, moved by compassion, gave him food. The man cooked and invited Lord Vishnu to eat. Miraculously, Lord Vishnu appeared and dined with him. Witnessing this, the king realized that true devotion and purity of heart attract divine grace, not mere external rituals.

Rituals and Traditions

• Wake up early, bathe and wear clean clothes, remembering Lord Vishnu.
• Prepare the Tulsi plant for worship, decorating it with cow dung or red clay.
• Create a sugarcane pavilion at home or in the temple and install the Shaligram form of Lord Vishnu.
• Offer seasonal fruits, sugarcane and water chestnuts as prasad.
• Decorate around the Tulsi plant with garlands, rangoli and lamps.
• Invoke Tulsi with special mantras, offer clothes and ornaments and light lamps around her.
• Married couples seeking children should recite the Tulsi Namashtak.
• Observe a fast throughout the day, breaking it at the prescribed time with fruits, milk or juice.
• Perform the Tulsi Vivah ceremony, sing devotional songs and distribute prasad.

Important Mantras

Tulsi Mantra

• Devi tvaṃ nirmita pūrvam architāsi munīśvaraiḥ
• Namo namaste Tulsi pāpaṃ hara haripriye
• Om Shri Tulsya Vidmahe Vishnu Priyaye Dhīmahi Tanno Vrinda Prachodayāt
• Shreem Hreem Kleem Aim Vrindavanyai Swaha

To Awaken Lord Vishnu

• Uttishtha Govinda tyaja nidrām jagatpataye
• Tvayi supté jagannātha jagat suptaṃ bhavedidam
• Utthite cheshtate sarvam uttishthottishtha Mādhava
• Sharadāni cha pushpāṇi grihāṇa mama Keshava

How to Break the Fast (Parana)

• Break the fast after the Hari Vasara period ends, during the prescribed time on Dwadashi.
• Remember Lord Vishnu before partaking of food, fruits or water.

A Message of Renewal and Blessings

Dev Uthani Gyaras is more than a festival-it is a celebration of new beginnings, faith and divine blessings. As Lord Vishnu awakens from his cosmic rest, the world is infused with hope, positivity and the promise of auspicious events. The rituals, stories and devotion of this day inspire balance, peace and prosperity in life. Every year, this festival reminds us that true blessings come from sincere devotion and purity of heart, lighting the path for a harmonious and joyful life.