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speaking is easy and natural because truth is the expression of what is seen, heard or experienced by someone. It needs a negative use of mind for speaking untruth. The cause for speaking untruth is selfishness or lust or some other desire. One lie creates the chain of lies and thus a man looses his equanimous vision. Untruthfulness is conceptually an ignorance and an ignorant person cannot be a man of balanced-vision. So to be less selfish and sensuous is to be more truthful. If this process continues then a strong desire will emerge to be fully truthful. Therefore, truthfulness is the first step in the way of attaining equanimity.
It is well-known that background of any event is a fact and unless it is changed new occurrence could not take place. Likewise success in the way of attaining truth would be achieved only when we keep aside falsehood. Selfishness and narrow outlook are to be transformed in large heartedness which will allow truth-belongingness to foster and once it takes a start it will reach 10 its goal.
A disciplinarian of equanimity interally approaches towards non-attachment while externally he behaves equally with all the beings with good-intention. In real perspective the persuit of equanimity is the pursuit of non-violence.
It is the duty of a disciplinarian of equanimity to abandon all kinds of falsehoods, as also follow and contemplate truth. Whether it may be a terrestrial or transcendental matter - veracity should always
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