Saranagati Community

Saranagati Village is home to a community of practitioners of bhakti and followers of Srila Prabhupada. The collection of individual off-grid homesteads is spread across 10 kilometers in beautiful Venables Valley located near Ashcroft, BC, a four hour drive from Vancouver.

    Our community is managed by SARANAGATI VILLAGE HOLDINGS INC, (SVHI), a British Columbia company that provides a community environment which supports and promotes the practice of Krishna Consciousness.  Spiritual association is the essence

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    Ahimsa Goshala

    Cows and oxen are at goshala all winter long, waiting for you to visit and feed and brush them.

    COW PROTECTION ~ PRESERVING SACRED BREEDS ~ DEITY SEVA ~ GOBER PRODUCTS

    PASSING ON COW WORSHIP FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

    This is the first time in the history of the western world that grandparents are teaching the children how to honor mother cow. Your support insures that daily pujas will continue.  See our webpage

    IN THIS UNIVERSE

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    Saranagati Ratha-Yatra

    Our annual Saranagati Ratha-Yatra takes place on Saturday July 6th 2024 in our beautiful scenic valley and lake.  Help pull Lord Jagannath's cart at the Ratha Yatra parade at noon and continuing at lakeside festival site park until sundown. 

    • Ecstatic Kirtans, dancing and drama
    • Old fashioned farm-style games 
    • Prasadam (delicious & free vegetarian feast)
    • Local arts & crafts and books
    • Entertainment, plays, dancing and singing
    • Evening of music and drumming by the
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    Spiritual Practices

    Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. The gigantic industrial enterprises are products of a godless civilization, and they cause the destruction of the noble aims of human life. The more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest and dissatisfaction of the people in general.  Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.40 Goal for this community:…