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tells his friend he has to meet someone and asks him to wait for
him. He lies to his friend in this way and goes and eats in the
restaurant. Alas! People even take a false oath in the name of
God. When the tubers erupt, they will start lying. This is what
God calls kashaya. The wretched man binds a tuber of deceit
and a tuber of lying and strengthens his tuber of eating meat.
When a tuber erupts in an ignorant person (person without Self-
realization), he will bind five more new ones. Instead if he were
to become flexible and straightforward when his tuber for eating
meat erupts, he will one day solve his problems. In his ignorant
state he will never become free from his tubers of eating meat but
by telling the truth that he is going to the restaurant to eat meat,
he can benefit greatly. If his friend comes form a virtuous family,
he may even try to free him from his meat-eating habit or may
show him a way out. His friend may help him understand and if
he continues to repent, he may break his habit in the end. But if
he does not soften and relent and goes away by lying and deceit,
then he will never become free because he will bind new tubers
of deceit and lies. That is why God has said for us to adopt a
principle of not stealing through the medium of the mind, speech
and acts. That way some day the tubers will dissolve.
There are all kinds of tubers in the mind : tubers of greed,
pride, deceit, and anger. There may be tubers of all of these
within. The tuber of pride is better than that of greed. The tuber
of greed is very bad; even the one who has it is not aware of
it. Whereas others can see the tuber of pride sprouting and
when someone asks him why he walks around being boastful
and arrogant, his tuber of pride will dissolve. The tuber of greed
may become evident some day but the tuber of deceit will
always remain hidden.
How Do The Tubers Of the Mind Dissolve?
The tubers of greed and anger will cause a lot of suffering