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15. GITA
Five occasions when you should tell lie
Vasishtha's Smriti
Finding Yudhisthira unwilling to tell a lie, Krishna overcame his reluctance by a long exhortation, in the course of which he announced his ethics of untruth in the following edifying text from Vasishtha's Smriti. "In marriage, in amorous dealings, when one's life is in danger, when the whole of one's possession is going to be lost, and when a Brahman's interest is at stake, untruth should be told. The wise have said that speaking untruth on these five occasions is not a sin."
KRISHNA THUS DECLARES
THE DHARMA THAT IS TO BE FOLLOWED IN
KALIYUGA BY CUTTING OFF THE THIRD LEG OF DHARMA.
HE INAUGURATED KALIYUGA WITH HIS DEATH. NOW ON DHARMA WAS TO STAND ON ONE LEG.
BUDDHA AND MAHAVIRA WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THIS DECAY.
atruly THEY INSISTED ON
inconvenienttruth AHIMSA AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. JESUS TAUGHT THAT EVEN IF YOU ARE TO LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE,
STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
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