Saranagati Community Network | Saranagati Community Network

dock The process of Saranagati is humility, rejecting everything unfavorable to devotion, accepting anything favorable, faith in the Lord as one's sole protector and maintainer, and total dedication of the self.

Devotees who pioneered this project committed their lives and resources to building a spiritual community for themselves, their families and others.

Ahimsa goshala cows have been receiving many guests that want to feed them. If you want to bring food for the cows, only organic fruits/vegetables and natural, chemical-free gur/jaggery will be accepted.

Do not feed jaggery directly, the goshala will store it for winter. If you cannot bring these items, make a donation for winter hay.

Perishable food, cooked foods, and jaggery with preservatives & food colouring will be thrown away. We do not feed our cows grains, dough, or cooked food of any kind. Cows have individual health and dietary needs which need to be managed carefully.

Vedic Eco Village is seeking people to participate in daily building, farm and food preparation. Campground, outdoor kitchen & solar shower facilities are under construction. Burned trees from our forest are milled for ecovillage building materials. Our building techniques improve and evolve with every ecovillage project.

Our traditional Vedic mud-stoves (chulha) used for cooking and heating are available in multiple locations. We have successfully implemented these sparkless chulha stoves, combining rocket mass heater technology and traditional Vedic cooking methods. These stoves are essential for safely cooking with fire in the summertime, as we are in a characteristically dry and high fire risk area.

Future Development Plans

As in the original Vrindavan, cows play a central role in the lives of the Brajavasis, similarly, we plan to focus all the activities within our Vedic Eco Village around cows and agriculture.

The cows in Saranagati would benefit from a heated winter barn. We are building a new goshala to host cows during cold days. The Goshala will be the first structure built in the VeV colony. …

Govardhana Academy is a school dedicated to spiritual education, is a humble attempt at serving our glorious Krsna and Balarama, who have shown to particularly appreciate the simple hearts of children. We hope to invest in the children's love for Them.

Our goal is to provide a spiritualized, personalized, professional Krsna conscious education centre, whereby the entire community can contribute to the investment and enrichment of the children. Through a partnership between the staff, the parents, and other community volunteers, we aim to ensure academic success along with knowledge of practical life skills. Classes on Vedic scriptures and devotional activities serve as the integral part of the identity and value of Govardhan Academy.

Thus, our mission is that our students learn to see every activity, field of knowledge, resource or relationship as an ingredient for service to the Supreme Lord, thereby identifying themselves as Vaisnavas throughout their lives

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

Saranagati, in its truest sense, signifies complete surrender to God, particularly Krishna.

prabhupada

Devotional service means to accept favorable and reject unfavorable. This is called śaraṇāgati. Surrender means to accept favorable things, how I can make progress towards Kṛṣṇa,

Srila Prabhupada realized that…

The ISKCON Saranagati Temple is striving to facilitate deep immersion into the teachings and practices of Krishna consciousness, especially chanting Hare Krishna, as taught by Srila Prabhupada.

Winter Hours

Daily from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Except Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

See the website saranagatitemple.com