Srila Prabhupada said, Krsna consciousness is a perfect paradigm, perfect world view. The Krsna conception is all embracing, all encompassing, it includes the happiness and welfare of dogs, human beings, squirrels, ants, whales, deer, trees and every living entity. The Krsna conscious person cares about their happiness, their welfare, their comfort, their peace of mind, isn’t it? Let everyone be happy visvam purna-sukhayate, let the whole universe be happy.

Whole universe means the universe and everything in it. Let mother earth be happy, don’t pollute mother earth. Let the scared rivers, the waters be happy, pure and flow freely. Don’t put dams up on the rivers, it’s a great offense to the rivers. Rivers are meant to flow to their husband. The rivers are the wives of the ocean, ocean is their husband. So you should never stop the flow of a woman’s love to her husband or prevent a woman from meeting her husband. As it is a pious activity to bring separated people together, it is a grave sinful activity to prevent people from meeting each other that are meant to meet.

So the rivers are meant to meet the ocean, they are born in the mountains, then they grow and they move, they meander through the plains and finally they marry the ocean. They merge and become one with the ocean, their husband. So all these dams are all damned, they are cursed, they are sinful, they are the most sinful thing.

So when one is Krsna conscious then everything is perfectly adjusted, the earth is happy, when devotees walk on the earth she becomes thrilled. And if it is a devotee like Krsna, the Supreme Lord, the epitome of devotion or a devotee like Radha, when such a devotee walks on the earth, mother earth feels so thrilled that her grass stands on end. The grass that we are sitting on is the hair on the body of mother earth. And when Krsna walks on the earth, not only does the grass stand straight in jubilation or exaltation but flowers bloom instantly, lotus flowers, they are called land lilies or land lotuses. There are water lotuses and there are also land lotuses in Vrndavana.

So when Krsna walks, the mother earth says – “Oh Krsna’s feet are so soft, so tender, so many beautiful marks there, carana cinha. Such a loving touch and such a loving caress of Krsna’s feet, such a radiance of His toe nails, such a soft and gentle touch” and she feels so thrilled from the core of her heart and she responds by, utpala, blossoming forth with flowers for every step that Krsna takes. So if you are a Krsna devotee, the water will flow freely, purely. Flowing water becomes pure.

So when rivers flow, they are pure. There is no question of water pollution. With Krsna conscious government there will be pure air, pure water, pure land and most importantly ceto darpana marjanam, pure minds, pure minds means pure dealings, pure dealings means love, appreciation, generosity. All will live happily, all will eat sufficiently, all will prosper, all will be fulfilled – Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven, so there will be the kingdom of God on earth. Sometimes they have phrases like ‘Heaven on earth.’

So the devotee wants to benefit everyone. Let everyone be benefited. Let everyone improve, let everyone rise, let everyone grow. No stifling, no suffocation, no destruction, no degradation, no diminishing. Let everyone expand, let everyone grow, let everyone thrive and prosper. This is the beautiful heart and the vision of the devotee.