Acharya Prashant states that one must understand clearly that if you call yourself religious and are associated with violence and cruelty towards animals and living beings, then you are not religious from any perspective or angle. He recalls a story from a few days ago, from the poem 'Maa Kah Ek Kahani' (Mother, tell me a story), where Yashodhara narrates a story to her son, Rahul. She tells him that his father, Siddhartha Gautama, before becoming the Buddha, used to wander in the garden early in the morning. During one such walk, Siddhartha finds a bird, injured by a hunter's arrow, which falls in front of him. He picks it up. The hunter then approaches and claims the bird, saying, "I shot it, it is my property, return it." Siddhartha refuses. The hunter argues that this action goes against the rules and the law, as the bird is his. Siddhartha replies that it may be against the law, but he will not return it. The matter escalates and reaches the court. The court delivers the verdict that "the protector is always greater than the predator." It doesn't matter that the bird was the hunter's; the hunter was going to consume it, whereas Siddhartha protected it. The speaker emphasizes the line, "Justice is the giver of compassion," explaining that justice is smaller, and compassion is greater. This, he asserts, is Dharma. No one has the right to kill an animal, and if an animal is being killed, it is not a personal matter. No living being can be the property of another. He explains that our civilization and culture are still underdeveloped and incomplete, which is why we use terms like "livestock" (pashu-dhan), treating animals as wealth. Just as it was once believed in some parts of the world that women were the property of men—an idea now considered base—a day will come when animals will also have rights, at least the right to life. They will not be counted as someone's property. One cannot say that a butcher's goats are his to kill, as it is not his personal matter. Just as a man cannot kill his own children and call it a personal matter, no one has permission to kill, harm, imprison, or make food out of any animal.