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[19] The Problem of Compulsive Lying
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occurs, repent (prashchyataap) for it.
Now, even if you repent after telling lies, you will continue
to tell lies because the effect of karma is inevitable. You have no
choice but suffer it for sure. So when people leave your home,
they will talk and make comments like, ‘Why does an educated
person like Chandulal have to lie? Does that suit him?’ Hence
you will have to suffer the fruit of that lying again, even if you
repent. And if you stop that incoming ‘water’ in the ‘tank’ in the
first place, if the causes are stopped in the first place, then the
effect of the cause and its effect will not be there.
So what are ‘we’ saying? You may end up telling a lie, but
are you opposed to that lie by having the opinion, ‘I should not
say things like that?’ That shows that you do not like telling lies.
When you do not have an opinion that you should tell lies, then
Your responsibility ends.
Questioner: But what can one do if he has a habit of
lying… become a compulsive liar?
Dadashri: He has to develop a simultaneous habit of
doing pratikraman. And when he does pratikraman, then the
responsibility is ‘ours’ (Dada’s).’
So change your opinion! Lying is tantamount to killing
one’s self. To lie is the same as killing the self. That is what You
have to decide. But at the same time, do not become obstinately
attached to insisting on the truth.
Lying in Worldly Life
What should the ‘relative religion’ (worldly interaction) be
like? It should be that, ‘If you have to lie, do so; but do
pratikraman.’
Questioner: I say every day that, ‘It is wrong to lie and
I did not want to lie,’ but it still occurs. Why does it occur even
when I do not want it to?