Acharya Prashant explains that while anyone can claim to be spiritual, true spirituality is fundamentally based on compassion for oneself and the entire world. He describes spirituality as the science of transcending suffering, tension, and grief. To be spiritual, one must have enough self-love to seek a cure for their internal state. This involves a rigorous examination of the mind, much like a medical test. Through this internal investigation, one discovers that their own feelings of pain, fear, and the urge to live are shared by all other creatures. The speaker highlights that just as modern medicine shows that human blood and organs are essentially the same across different races, spiritual insight reveals that the internal experience of life is universal. He references Kabir Saheb to emphasize that the pain felt by a human is no different from that felt by a bird or an animal. Consequently, a person who is truly sensitive to their own suffering cannot bear to inflict pain or death on another being. He concludes that it is impossible to be spiritual while participating in the violence of eating meat, as spirituality and such cruelty are mutually exclusive.