Our Story

The Name

Why Panchavati.

In the Ramayana, Panchavati is the forest hermitage where Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana lived during their years of exile. A sacred grove of five ancient trees, alive with purpose, simplicity, and grace. Not a place of grand architecture. A place where the sacred and the natural were inseparable.

We chose this name deliberately, as a description of what we are building: a campus where organic farming, a cow sanctuary, Vedic education, healing arts, and community are not separate things but a single, living whole. A grove of five sacred trees, grown in Texas soil.

For those who know the Ramayana, the name carries centuries of meaning. For those who don't, it simply evokes what it is: something lush, purposeful, and real.

The Vision

A way of life, with a commercial engine.

Panchavati is not one business. It is seven entities, each with its own governance and purpose, connected by shared land and shared mission. The values at the center are ahimsa, sattvic living, seva, and community, brought into practical, modern form.

What makes it different: the for-profits fund the non-profits through legally pledged revenue, not charity. Every entity is designed to sustain itself and the ones around it.

The Founder

Viswanath Eranki.

Decades of business leadership. A lifetime of values. And a deep belief that a community this large, this rooted, and this underserved deserves something no strip-mall or conventional farm can offer: a place that is fully, authentically theirs.

Viswanath grew up immersed in ahimsa, sattvic food, and Vedic learning. He spent his career building enterprises. Now he is building an ecosystem, not for profit alone, but for legacy. His family lives on the campus, adjacent to the temple. That is the soul of Panchavati that no outside investor can replicate.

The vision was not born in a boardroom. It was born from a simple question: what kind of community do I want my children and grandchildren to grow up in?

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What We Stand For

Mission, Vision & Values.

Every entity, every decision, every harvest — measured against these.

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Ahimsa

Non-harm as a living practice — zero pesticides, vegetarian food only, sacred treatment of cows, and a campus that does not take more from the earth than it returns.

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Sattva

Purity in food, in mind, in environment. The farm grows sattvic produce. The restaurant cooks sattvic meals. The healing center restores sattvic equilibrium.

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Seva

Selfless service is not a slogan here — it is the business model. Volunteers engage because the funding structure is permanent. The cows are cared for because the system is designed to care for them.

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Community

300,000 families in DFW who want organic heirloom produce, a Vedic school, a sattvic restaurant, and a cultural home. Panchavati is being built for them, and with them.

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Discipline

Mission without financial discipline is a wish. Every entity is designed to be profitable or structurally funded. The ecosystem works because the numbers work.

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Legacy

We are building for the next generation, not the next quarter. The temple will stand in perpetuity. The land will regenerate. The community will carry this forward.