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433 he kept silence and concealed the truth. This was also a kind of mental lie. Vasuraj was thus attempting by his mind to make others speak about the existence of what did not really exist. It could therefore be said that his vow of truth had been broken. In accordance with this principle, a grain of salt in the form of untruth had fallan in the ocean of life long truth of Vasuraj.
There is a similar incident in Mahabharat. Krishna, Arjun, Bhim and others wanted Yudhishthira to speak that Ashvatthama, the son of the preceptor, had been killed. Yudhishthira flatly refused to tell a lie. At that time Bhim killed one elephant named Ashvatthama, and he said to Yudhishthira :
“Now you can say at least this much that Ashvatthama has been killed,"
Yudhishthire replied :
“I shall speak accordingly, but at Die ? x . 26
