Acharya Prashant explains that to understand if animals can feel love, one must first understand what love is. The mind is constantly under various kinds of pressure, trouble, and bondage. He illustrates this with an analogy: if you are tied up, and someone who loves you comes along, their duty and your expectation would be for them to untie your hands and feet. When you are in tension and sorrow, and someone frees you from your bonds, you will feel that this person is lovely and has helped you. You will feel love for them because they are freeing you from your bondage. This is what love is. There is nothing mysterious about love, but we make it so because we are not even familiar with the small things in life; we are in ignorance and do not know our own minds. Love is a very simple, true, and clear thing. We complicate it by saying things like, "Who can understand love?" The same applies to liberation (mukti). Liberation is a very straightforward thing. First, one must see that they are trapped and in bondage everywhere, unable to move in the right direction because of internal and external forces. The one who helps you in your liberation is your lover. There is no other definition of love and a lover. Applying this to the monkey, its troubles are limited to hunger and the fear of being hit by people. When you give it food and show it affection instead of harm, you are expressing love, and that is the monkey's experience of love. However, the monkey's experience of love is limited to the extent of its troubles. A human's suffering is much deeper, existing on profound mental levels. Therefore, loving a human is more difficult; it requires helping them achieve mental, psychic liberation. This is why the saints have said, "Everyone talks of love, but no one knows love. When one meets the Master (Sahab), only then does love happen." To love someone is to give them liberation, but to give liberation, one must first have it. It is easy to have biscuits in your pocket, but difficult to have liberation. The speaker also explains that animals are very close to nature. They have not been conditioned by thoughts for as long as humans have. Through millions of years of evolution and experience, they have learned to sense a person's intentions through their eyes, their scent, and their gait. If you are filled with violence, an animal will sense it and either run away or attack. Conversely, if they sense goodwill, they will approach you. This is not a magical ability but a simple, biological, scientific fact based on their instinctual knowledge.