Purpose of ISKCON

“Srila Prabhupada, as the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, has chalked out Seven Purposes for developing his spiritual organization. The sixth of these seven purposes, deals directly with the need “to bring the members closer together for the purpose of teaching a simpler, more natural way of life.” For most members of ISKCON this clearly means establishing rural communities, villages, where one can more easily introduce the concepts of “simple living and high thinking”, something truly in line with the Vedic culture, in particular an agrarian cow-based culture. And although ISKCON has established some farm communities over the years, this dimension of the mission has still largely been undeveloped throughout the larger ISKCON family.”

– His Holiness R.P. Bhakti Raghava Swami. Taken from the book, “Modernity is Killing Civilisation”, Chapter 1-Introduction