Yogini Ekadashi 2027: Date, Parana and the Hemamali Story

In 2027 Yogini Ekadashi is kept on Wednesday, 30 June 2027, and the fast is broken on Thursday 1 July. It comes sixteen days after Nirjala Ekadashi and fourteen days before Devshayani, and no other Ekadashi falls between those two, so it is the last one of the year before Chaturmas opens. The date itself is settled by every reading this page checks. The two points worth a closer look are the month it belongs to, which depends on the calendar, and the hours around the parana.

A Tithi From Late Tuesday Night to Wednesday Evening (योगिनी एकादशी)

This Krishna Ekadashi opens at 22:04 on 29 June and closes at 20:31 on 30 June. The festival tables have no row for it, so both instants come from the site’s own lunar computation; over the 86 tithi instants it shares with the DE421 tables, the two never differ by more than 1 minute.

The New Delhi daily table shows Krishna Dashami at sunrise on Tuesday the 29th (05:26), Krishna Ekadashi on Wednesday the 30th (05:26) and Krishna Dwadashi on Thursday the 1st (05:26). The same pattern holds in all 38 cities in the site’s panchang: the tithi arrives more than two hours after each of them has seen the sun set on the 29th, and the 30th’s sunrise is the only one it contains. For a household that eats a single plain meal on Dashami, the whole of the 29th’s daylight is still Dashami.

At the other end, the Ekadashi is still current when the sun sets on the 30th. In New Delhi, sunset is at 19:23, 68 minutes before the tithi closes, and in every listed city the gap is at least 49 minutes (the smallest is in Jammu). So the fasting day, evening included, belongs to Ekadashi. How the fast itself is kept, from going without grain to taking nothing at all, is a matter of family custom and is covered on the Ekadashi vrat niyam page. Anyone with a medical condition, anyone pregnant and anyone on medication should ask a doctor before fasting.

The Arunodaya Test Changes Nothing

Vaishnava almanacs that follow the Hari Bhakti Vilasa also look at arunodaya, the roughly 96 minutes before sunrise, and reject an Ekadashi whose arunodaya still has Dashami in it. On the 30th that cannot apply. The Ekadashi begins before midnight, and by arunodaya it will have been running for more than four hours even in Guwahati, the city where the lead is shortest. Smarta and Vaishnava calendars therefore print the same Wednesday.

Parana on Thursday 1 July (पारण)

Dwadashi follows directly, from 20:31 on 30 June to 18:15 on 1 July. Vrat manuals keep the fast through Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Dwadashi, and this year that quarter runs past midnight into the small hours of the 1st. It still ends well before dawn: in every listed city more than two hours remain between the end of Hari Vasara and sunrise, the least in Guwahati. By the time the sun is up, the only condition left is to eat while Dwadashi lasts.

That leaves plenty of time. The New Delhi sunrise on Thursday is at 05:26 and Dwadashi runs until 18:15, more than twelve hours later, although the custom is to break the fast in the morning. Dwadashi closes at one instant for the whole country, while sunrise is local. The panchang calculator stops at New Delhi; through 2027, other cities’ sunrise and sunset are listed on the city panchang pages.

Between Nirjala and Devshayani

The Ekadashis on either side of this one both have rows in the 2027 festival table, and the site’s daily panchang shows no other Ekadashi sunrise between them:

• Monday 14 June: Nirjala Ekadashi, the bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Jyeshtha, the day after Ganga Dussehra.
• Wednesday 30 June: Yogini Ekadashi, sixteen days later.
• Wednesday 14 July: Devshayani Ekadashi, fourteen days after Yogini, the bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Ashadha.

Devshayani is where the site’s closure table starts Chaturmas, which then runs to Dev Uthani Ekadashi on 10 November, 119 days later; the Chaturmas 2027 page sets out those dates. That is why Yogini, in 2027, is the final Ekadashi to fall before Chaturmas.

Jyeshtha Krishna or Ashadha Krishna

Like every dark-fortnight Ekadashi, Yogini has one name in each of the two month systems. The lunation it belongs to opens with the new moon at 01:10 on 5 June, with the Sun in sidereal Taurus. An amanta calendar names a lunar month after the Sun’s sign at the new moon that starts it, and a Taurus new moon starts Jyeshtha; the site’s festival rules agree, filing Ganga Dussehra and Nirjala, both in the first half of this lunation, under Jyeshtha shukla. The full moon comes at 06:14 on 19 June, eleven days ahead of the fast. Purnimanta calendars, which run each month from full moon to full moon, begin Ashadha there, so a north Indian almanac lists Yogini as Ashadha Krishna Ekadashi. Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada and Telugu almanacs, which count from one new moon to the next, keep it in Jyeshtha until the new moon at 08:32 on 4 July.

One detail can confuse a reader. The Sun crosses into Gemini on 15 June, the day after Nirjala and before the full moon, so the whole dark fortnight has the Sun in the sign that names Ashadha. That does not make the amanta month Ashadha: the month takes its name from the opening new moon alone. Amanta Ashadha starts with the 4th’s new moon, when the Sun is in Gemini, and Jagannath Rath Yatra on 5 July, filed under Ashadha shukla, comes right after it. The month-by-month dates are on the Jyeshtha 2027 and Ashadha 2027 pages.

Hemamali, Kubera’s Gardener: The Story the Vrat Books Tell

What the vrat books offer on the importance of Yogini Ekadashi is its mahatmya, the story attached to it. They take it from the Padma Purana, and some editions credit the Brahmavaivarta Purana instead. It is presented as a conversation in which Krishna tells Yudhishthira about Hemamali, a gardener in Kubera’s city of Alaka whose job was to bring flowers each day for Kubera’s worship of Shiva. One day he stayed home with his wife, Vishalakshi, and the flowers never came. In the Purana’s telling, Kubera curses him and he is sent away from Alaka. He wanders until he reaches the hermitage of the sage Markandeya, who tells him to keep this Ekadashi. He does, and the story ends with the curse lifted.

The mahatmya ends by naming the merit it attaches to the fast. That claim belongs to the text. This page reports the story as the Purana’s and makes no claim of its own about what keeping Yogini Ekadashi does. The name is also not connected to Yogini dasha, the planetary-period system built on eight yoginis: the two share a word and nothing more.

Yogini Ekadashi 2027: Summary

• Vrat: Wednesday 30 June 2027, the same day in Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning
• Ekadashi tithi (computed): 22:04 on 29 June to 20:31 on 30 June
• Parana: Thursday 1 July 2027, after sunrise (05:26) and while Dwadashi lasts (until 18:15)
• Month: Ashadha Krishna Ekadashi (purnimanta); Jyeshtha Krishna Ekadashi (amanta)
• New Delhi on 30 June: sunrise 05:26, sunset 19:23, nakshatra at sunrise Bharani

Every vrat in the month is on the June 2027 festival list, and every Ekadashi of the year is in the Ekadashi 2027 list. For the rest of the year, see the 2027 festival calendar and the festivals section. In Hindi: योगिनी एकादशी 2027: तारीख, पारण और हेममाली की कथा.