Panchang for Thursday, 22 October 2026

Tithi	Ekadashi
Paksha	Shukla
Nakshatra	Shatabhisha, pada 2
Yoga	Vriddhi
Karana	Vishti
Vara	Guruvara
Sunrise (Ujjain, IST)	06:26
Sunset (Ujjain, IST)	17:55

Today's tithi is Ekadashi, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Shatabhisha nakshatra, pada 2. The vara is Guruvara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Vriddhi yoga and Vishti karana.

What is Vriddhi yoga?

Vriddhi is the eleventh of the 27 nithya yogas, and its name means growth or increase, the ordinary word for something getting larger.

The classical associations are with expansion of the kind you can measure: adding to something that already works, extending a business, learning more of a subject you already know, and anything that compounds rather than starts from nothing.

Yogas are read from the combined sidereal longitudes of the Sun and Moon in steps of 13°20', so the cycle turns over about once a lunar month. Vriddhi sits directly after Ganda in that order, which readers of the sequence often notice: the tradition puts growth immediately after untangling.

The useful thought is that growth has a direction. Something growing is also getting harder to change, and choosing what to feed is a more consequential decision than choosing how hard to work. This is the classical slot for making it deliberately.