Interrupting the existence of a spiritual soul that quite simply wants to progress on the level of true spirituality, causes to this last a terrible suffering. Also, we must preserve life, not destroy it, and ensure that it is so for each of all living beings, humans, animals and plants, all species combined.
If the human being has a soul, know that all animals and all plants without exception, also have a spiritual soul. These are not empty bodies.
This is why God asks us to stop slaughtering animals, no longer destroying plants including trees, and no longer eating meat, fish and eggs.
Verily, the imperfect eye cannot see things as they are, from their proper perspective. One can only perceive truth if one receives it from a higher source, and the highest truth there is spiritual knowledge emitted by the Lord Himself. Only the human being who has reached his spiritual liberation can become a virtuous being and see all living beings as his own brothers and sisters.
The holy being for his part, sees each living being as a spiritual soul, and when he serves his neighbour, it is to her alone that he addresses himself, at the same time meeting the material and spiritual needs of his brothers and sisters.
Depending on his level of spiritual realization, the human being will have different ways of seeing living beings, embodied souls.
He or she who has a bodily conception of existence will establish differences between function of their body. The individual soul does take on many and varied material bodily forms, but despite all of its body changes, it remains eternal, and always the same.
Thus, for those whose vision corresponds to a conception of existence based on the material body, beings will appear different from each other. In truth, no one is a friend or an enemy to anyone. Each by the law of karma, law of action-reaction or law of cause and effect, reincarnates in different bodies of dense matter. But as soon as the human being becomes aware of his true spiritual identity, he no longer makes any distinction according to this law.
A holy being already liberated, who is aware of the truths stated above, does not make a distinction according to the different carnal envelopes. He considers all living beings, humans, animals and plants, as so many spiritual souls embodied in these various bodies, and knows that they are all the eternal servants of the Lord. This is the vision that the human being must adopt.
In our daily relations, we must maintain friendly relations with all beings in general, humans, animals which moreover are sensitive and suffer when they are confronted with pain or misfortune, and plants which are incapable of defend against criminals who want to destroy them.