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NOT UTTERING FALSEHOOD 🌿Not keeping your word by refusing to give someone something that you have previously promised to hand over is a much greater mistake than whole-heartedly instructing an unfit person that Atma-Swarupa is the supreme reality. ~Ramana Maharshi •Guru Vachaka Kovai, v. 820 ______________________ Referring to Sri Krishna’s description of his gospel as the supreme secret which should be disclosed only to his true devotees and never to others, Sri Bhagavan explained the doctrine of adhikara [fitness]. If the highest truth is taught to the unworthy, it is bound to be perverted and abused. In fact the asuras like Hiranyakasipu were also Brahmavadins [expounders of Brahman]. They too declared ‘I am God’. Only by the ‘I’ they meant their ego. So they recognized no higher authority than their ego, and felt free to commit any sin. Indiscriminate preaching of the highest truth irrespective of the disciple’s fitness will therefore spell disaster and is forbidden by the Lord. Here in this verse, Sri Ramana is saying that not fulfilling the promise, which indirectly implies that uttering falsehood, is an even bigger mistake than the mistake of giving the Highest Knowledge or Truth to an unfit and an immature aspirant. [Sri Ramana Reminiscences, p. 80.] 🌷@ramanamaharishi🌷 🌼@SpiritualGroup🌼