Dear reader:
In this verse, it is recommended that there is nothing to be gained by indulging in the falsity of thinking that we can act in any manner to cause pain in any manner to others. This realization is afforded one who understands spiritual topics as taught by the bona fide spiritual master, and which information is found especially elaborated upon in detail within the books of the founder and Spiritual Master of the Hare Krishna Movement, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. It is stated here that the realization afforded by coming to the platform of honesty gives one the insight to come to this amazing absolute truth. The cultivation of spiritual life certainly must lead the seeker of honesty to this understanding.
Honesty, as generally understood in the mundane sense, rarely is seen to delve deep into the realm of discovering and subsequent propagation of spiritual truths. However, it is confirmed in the teachings of Vedic literatures that the common platform of all living entities is that they are all the dependent separated individual energies of the Lord. Those persons, who have accepted and appreciated the beneficial insight that honesty affords, can understand that our real essential identities are transcendental to bodily, religious, and other superficial differences as usually understood to be the nature of the living being. Therefore, as honesty is developed, one begins to understand that we are not really properly represented by designations like American, Russian, Indian, white, black, Jew, Muslim, male, female, etc., but we are certainly properly represented by a desire to live life and with an aversion to become annhilated by death.
As concepts like pleasure, pain, happiness, and distress are universal aspects of the living beings, regardless of what type of body he occupies, whether it be as human, dog, or cat, we should honestly consider the real relationships that must be developed by adopting an honest approach to understanding things as they are. Conversely, when one accepts as false the insight that honesty has afforded, or acts contrarily to such noumenal insights and realizations, honesty is betrayed and the living being indulges in a campaign of falsehood, thinking that such subtle workings and engagement are to be forsaken for other less desirable and more detrimental actions of self-fulfillment. In this way, honesty is often elusive without the guidance of the Lord and those who have seen the truth by maintaining and devoping honest behaviors ultimately coming to the platform of self-realization of one's spiritual identity. Srila Prabhupada, the Spiritual Master of the Hare Krishna Movement, has attempted to bring the spiritual standard of honesty to the west from its native home in India, by translating such spiritual knowledge from the Sanskrit and Bengali languages. Such knowledge, as contained in the Vedic literatures, and confirmed by generations of spiritual masters, are meant for the ultimate benefit of all souls who are interested in coming to the platform of honesty in its ultimate sense. The spiritual realization of understanding the true relationship and nature of the living being is certainly dependent upon arriving on the shore of spiritual honesty without duplicity. To see different grades of living beings such as this one is my friend, this one is my enemy, this one is to be killed, etc., is to see with duplicity. However, to see that all living beings are posessed of a nature that has a vision of oneness of loving relationship to the Lord, then we cannot bear to see any suffering imposed upon the living being.
Denial of honesty and failure to come to the platform of honesty has the consequence that one must meet with the illusion of death. Although the living being never dies, if one neglects to come to the platform of honesty and take advantange of this human form of life, the unfortuanate soul must meet death of the body in a state of confusion, which is certainly a suffering of immeasurable proportion. Therefore, let us all cultivate honesty and take help of our spiritual facilities, those being the words of a bona fide spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, and learn the ways we can all get to the cherished spiritual platform and see with a great vision that will allow us to overcome the fears and jurisdiction of death.
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