Let us love one another unconditionally.

Krishna, God, the Supreme and Sovereign Person, has given us this wonderful commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Let us joyfully apply it.

The Lord asks us to love our neighbor, whoever they may be. Regardless of their race, community, nation, origin, or skin color; White, black, yellow, red, mixed-race, their religion, their culture, etc., for we are all, in truth, incarnate spiritual souls, born of God. Each of us is a spiritual soul; we all share the same origin; we all spring from the primordial energy of God.

Through the application of this commandment, the Supreme Lord desires that we establish a harmonious, peaceful, respectful, benevolent, compassionate, and tolerant society, of which He would be the Sovereign Monarch for the good of all living beings, as is the case in the spiritual world.

Let us love one another unconditionally and harm no one. Those who truly love God also naturally love all living beings, the celestial beings inhabiting the Edenic, paradisiacal planets, and all human beings without exception, for their hearts are truly filled with love. The true believer rejects no one and has no enemies.

Love of neighbor, as God conceives it, also means loving all animals without exception, terrestrial and aquatic, and all plants in their diversity, from blades of grass to trees, for each shelter and nourishes numerous living beings: insects, caterpillars, butterflies, birds, monkeys, and so on. We have a duty to protect them and watch over them all, so that no harm comes to them.

In truth, if all human beings are souls incarnated in human physical bodies, the same is true for all animals and plants, for each is also a soul incarnated in a specific physical body, according to its karma.

All souls, regardless of the physical body in which they are incarnated, are the same. They are all equal, have the same spiritual level, and the same importance. None is superior to another.

This is why God forbids killing living beings—human, animal, and plant—and to avoid harming them, God asks us not to eat meat, fish, or eggs.

Here is the word of God, in which He specifies what we should eat: Behold, I give you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it; they shall be yours for food.

This is what loving one's neighbor is all about.