Dishonesty - an essential subject

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The saying 'Honesty is the best policy' is very accurate. When a person is honest in his dealings, he usually feels good from the inside, leaving him satisfied. However, dishonesty produces exactly contrary results, leaving one to feel rather insecure. In today's world unfortunately, dishonesty is encouraged to progress materially, especially in business practices. Devotional service on the other hand welcomes and encourages strongly the saying that honesty is the best policy. This is because dishonesty causes impurity and when one is impure, he cannot progress in devotional service, leaving him miles behind in the material world.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Dishonesty category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 8 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		In other ages-in Satya-yuga, Tretā-yuga and Dvāpara-yuga-the general populace was not so degraded, and the head of government was never elected. The king was the supreme executive personality, and if he caught any ministers stealing like thieves and rogues, he would at once have them killed or dismissed from service. As it was the duty of the king to kill thieves and rogues, it was similarly his duty to immediately kill dishonest ministers in government service. By such strict vigilance, the king could run the government very well, and the citizens would be happy to have such a king. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.14.17)



vanipedia.org 		Dirtiness, dishonesty, thievery, faithlessness, useless quarrel, lust, anger and hankering constitute the nature of those in the lowest position outside the varṇāśrama system. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.17.20)



vanipedia.org 		King Dhṛtarāṣṭra became blind under the influence of impious desires to nourish his dishonest sons, and thus he set fire to the lacquer house to burn his fatherless nephews, the Pāṇḍavas. Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind from birth, but his blindness in committing impious activities to support his dishonest sons was a greater blindness than his physical lack of eyesight. The physical lack of sight does not bar one from spiritual progress. But when one is blind spiritually, even though physically fit, that blindness is dangerously detrimental to the progressive path of human life. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.1.6)



vanipedia.org 		Dishonest miscreants flourish because of cowardly and impotent executive heads of state. But when the executive heads are strong enough to curb all sorts of dishonest miscreants, in any part of the state, certainly they cannot flourish. When the miscreants are punished in an exemplary manner, automatically all good fortune follows. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.14)



vanipedia.org 		In the material world we possess riches and wealth in many ways, but sometimes not in very honest and pious ways, because that is the nature of accumulating wealth. According to Vedic injunction, therefore, one should purify such wealth by giving cows and gold in charity to the brāhmaṇas. (Kṛṣṇa Book, Chapter 5)



vanipedia.org 		The common man supposes the unequal distribution of rain to represent nature's wrath for our sinful acts. There is truth in this. Thus to have an equal distribution of state-raised taxes, the citizens need to be scrupulously honest and virtuous. They should be honest in the payment of taxes to the state and should have honest representatives to look over the administration. In the modern setup of democratic states the citizens can have no cause for grievances, because the whole administration is conducted by the people themselves. If the people themselves are dishonest, the administrative machinery must be corrupt. (Light of the Bhāgavata, Chapter 2)



vanipedia.org 		Whoever causes offenseless living beings to suffer must fear me anywhere and everywhere in the world. By curbing dishonest miscreants, one automatically benefits the offenseless. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.14)



vanipedia.org 		Dakṣa's statement that Lord Śiva pretended to be an honest person means that Śiva was dishonest because in spite of accepting the position of Dakṣa's son-in-law, he was not respectful to Dakṣa. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.2.11)


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