Is
there any limit to tell lies? Do you
think that you can tell lies as and when you need? Or, you lie just for the purpose of surviving
and saving yourself from an unpleasant situation. Have you anytime analyzed the
fact why do people lie? The other day, I heard my neighbor’s wife scolding his
son for telling lies. She cautioned her son about the ill consequences of this
behavior. With a screaming voice, she said, “When you tell lies, you invite trouble. A monster with horns on his head with
red eyes will drag you from your bed during night and punish you
mercilessly. I am damn sure, you won’t
tell lies further.” The son assured his mother with a promising tone that he
will not repeat the mistake. Thereafter the son replied with a simper, “Mom who
is punishing you when you tell lies on a daily basis.” I find her mother sneak
away.
There
are many reasons to take this route in life. People want to protect their image
and after committing a mistake, try to cover the same telling lies. For
example, you have studied seriously, which is required to pass the final
examination. Still, your scorecard shows poor result and you are lying to your
parents to avoid admonition. The wife spends more than the stipulated house
budget and suppresses the fact to his husband to avoid an embarrassing
situation. A friend has not disclosed his being sacked from the job just not to
dilute his importance to his friend circles. All these reasons, which cause one
to tell lies is understood, though not
that justified. It is true that these
lies are not at all a part of a cognizable offense, but telling lies repeatedly
will make you to do so again and again and you will be addicted. Once you become a habitual liar, it will be
difficult to come out from this well laid out traps. Further, after telling
lies, when you want to protect yourself just to avoid being caught always
escalates your anxiety and mental tension.
You develop a strain on your brain. Your mind is getting burdened with
unnecessary thoughts, anxieties and the feeling of hurts. Ultimately, your
creative door is getting closed.
To
avoid telling lies, you have to increase
knowledge and understand the root cause why you lie? And also to understand the
difference between “Knowledge and Being.” The knowledge will increase your
self-confidence level. In that state, even you fail, you will not like to lie. Simultaneously,
you have to put efforts to increase your
“being.” When you can transform the knowledge into “being”, knowledge will be almost
like limitless information. You will be enlightened to get influenced by this
transformation and metamorphosis. You can acquire any subjective knowledge or
objective wisdom, though it is a painstaking situation. But once you are able to realize the
different kinds of “beings,” which is your present information about your life,
you will understand the moral value of life. Your life is consisting of good,
pure, inspiring and transparent essence. All others are created by you. When
you reach this stage, there will be no need to tell lies. Of course, there are
people who seldom tell lies because of their proximity to ideal living.
One
should not create a cognitive dissonance
and must understand the real
difference between the “existence” and “being.”
Many people confuse between these two high level intellectual discourse. For
example, the building exists, the tree exists, human beings exist, but each of
their existence is quite different. When we say being, it means the
originality, whereas the existence is from birth. Let us take examples of some domestic pets
like dogs, cats and cows. All these
animals have a common existence. But the
being of a cat or a cow is quite different. Being is a subject of a realization of inner
thought and that's tantamount to evolving realities and evolving presences. This
sequence of reality is applicable for every living beings. If you get hurt by
invective words uttered by some of your close friends, the situation becomes
little boisterous for the time being. It may be unpleasant for both of you to
handle that moment with ease. It shows the level of one’s being. If you retaliate and raise your anger, the
tension will be mounting up, but if you condone then you are showing your
magnanimity. So, you display your side of being, which is at a higher level
than another person. The other person who has a lesser level of being will take
a path of lying while narrating this acrimonious incident to others.
If
you are a selfish type, it shows your being at a certain level. Why the religious persons who are mostly termed as a sage and monks have
a very high level of beings? Because of
their maintaining sacred life, doing all the deeds as per the moral code of
conduct and serving the human beings and non-living beings, they reach that
level. Though, it is a mater of judgement to understand the being, it provides
an immense chance for growth for anyone. How you will be able to work on your
being? By practicing the fundamental and
core values of life related to habits, thoughts and showing your inclination
towards spiritualities. You can then
transform and support the process of transformation in daily life. Try to reach the level of higher dimension
from a lower one, so that you need not to lie at all for your survival.
Initially, you may prefer to lie to get your job done by others, enjoy the comforts and surpass
them. But in the long run, it will create more unpleasant outcomes. So, if you practice and embrace upon the ideal path of
living, your tenacity to lie will be gradually
diminished and finally eliminated.
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