Let truth and purity light up your career, guide your conduct, and mould your character. If the mind is impure, Self-realization cannot be attained even if you meditate for twenty hours daily. Even Yudhishthira had to see the hell as he once told a lie-a modified, twisted truth, in a dexterous manner. In truth, there is no deceit. That which is simulated is untruth.
Truth can never contradict non-injury.
When it does, it is no more a truth, but the selfishness of the man which is on the fore. When truth-speaking leads another to dishonour, injury and pain, it is no longer a virtue. Then it becomes a deadly sin. Speak what is true. Speak what is pleasant.