Don't harm anybody for any thing... even for good things!
For all of your falsehood and fraud you are not responsible. Even without your knowledge, the falsehood and fraud which come out of you are strange ones. They cannot be discovered easily.
Reason: You believe falsehood is good.
Like the following instances, in all circumstances, falsehood raises its ugly head in the name of goodness.
- When you give advice to others, you think in your mind, 'It is not possible for me to follow this advice. At least let them correct and improve themselves based on this advice.'
- When you yell at others using strong harmful language thinking to yourself that it is all for their good only.
- When you talk pointing out only the faults in others, under the pretext of speaking the truth, failing to appreciate the positive side in others.
All your goodness makes others suffer.
Can advising the other person to 'adopt' what one cannot adopt, be goodness? Is it goodness or falsehood?
By saying, 'It is only for his future benefit that I am talking to him rather teasingly' and making the present moment sorrowful for that person – Is this goodness?
In the same way, you find it difficult to adopt certain principles and ideas; you are not knowingly using them for the other persons also to suffer.
This society has somehow taught you that habit.
You only continue.
This can be abruptly stopped, like a full stop, at the very moment the understanding happens within us that 'falsehood would reside within us in the guise of goodness.'
When you examine your own goodness thoroughly in a straight-forward and bold manner, the mind which works with the falsehood-thought of 'whatever sorrows I got, let the world also get them' – will be caught red-handed... Thereafter throwing it away would be very easy.
Do not harm anybody for any thing ... even for good things!
If you know how to say good things in a good manner, you can say. Otherwise keeping quiet is the best.
As long as you say good things in an utterly bad manner, your own inner sufferings may become more cancerous. To prevent that from happening always say good things in a good manner only.
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