Kural 291<\/p>\n
What is truthfulness? It is speaking words
\nwhich are totally free from harmful effects.
\nKural 292<\/p>\n
Even falsehood is of the nature of truth
\nif it renders good results, free from fault.
\nKural 293<\/p>\n
Let one not speak as true what he knows to be false,
\nfor his conscience will burn him when he has lied.
\nKural 294<\/p>\n
One who lives by truth in his own heart
\ntruly lives in the hearts of all people.
\nKural 295<\/p>\n
Those who speak only truth from the heart
\nsurpass even penitents and philanthropists.
\nKural 296<\/p>\n
No prestige surpasses the absence of falsehood;
\nall other virtues flow from it effortlessly.
\nKural 297<\/p>\n
Not lying, and merely not lying, is beneficial
\nfor those who cannot or will not practice other virtues.
\nKural 298<\/p>\n
Water is sufficient to cleanse the body,
\nbut truthfulness alone can purify the mind.
\nKural 299<\/p>\n
Not all lamps give light.
\nThe lamp of not-lying is the learned man’s light.
\nKural 300<\/p>\n
Among all great truths we have ever beheld,
\nnot a single one rivals the goodness of telling the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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