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==It means Non-Deception== It [''truthfulness''] means first truth-speaking, but beyond that to keep the speech in harmony with the deepest truth of which one is conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p50</ref><center>~</center>It is not the fact that if a man is truthful (in the sense of not lying), all he says happens. For that he must know the Truth—be in touch with the truth of things, not merely speak the truth as his mind knows it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p6</ref>

An honest man does not need the marvels of Solomon's throne to learn Straightforwardness means simply to speak the truth. The throne of truth dwells within his own heart; the rectitude of his soul cannot but inspire him with words of rectitude. He speaks the truth not because he is afraid of a teacher, a master or a judge, but because truth is the characteristic of an upright man, the stamp of his nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/02/sincerity#p21</ref> <center>~</center>And in the work as in the man we find that faculty of spontaneous definite labour and vigorous formation which proceeds from an inner principle of perfect clearness, truth and sincerity. To be clear in one's own mind, entirely true and plain honest with one's self oneself and with others, wholly honest with the conditions Divine and materials of not to be crooked in one's labour, is a rare gift in our crooked, complex and faltering humanityways. It is the spirit of the Aryan worker and a sure secret of vigorous success. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/01/dayananda-the-man-and-his-work#p10</ref><center>~</center>''Q. Oh, your question was only this! You wanted to say, "Is it honest to ask questions and then not do anything of what you are told?" Is that it?''

''A:'' Yes<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12Self-september-1956#p9</ref><center>~</center>For justification is unwillingness to recognise a mistake and an attempt to prove oneself right even against the censure of the Governments honesty lies not only in saying what they are doing but also in doing what they sayMother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1529/human-unitysincerity#p4p25</ref>

Be To be clear in one's own mind, entirely true and plain with one's self and with others, wholly honest towards yourself―(no self-deception)with the conditions and materials of one's labour, is a rare gift in our crooked, complex and faltering humanity. Be sincere towards It is the Divine―(no bargaining in spirit of the surrender) Aryan worker and a sure secret of vigorous success. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1401/insinceritydayananda-the-pretensionman-and-selfhis-deceptionwork#p29p10</ref>

It is the want of knowledge of the senses which betrays good if you to have freed yourself from this feelingbondage [''a rigid insistence that one must always do what one has said one will do'']. You seeLove of Truth is divine, you can begin the training when quite small, quite small, and you can continue for more than but this kind of truth is a hundred years. And then, truly, within yourself to begin with, you never grow old because very mixed product accompanied as it is always interesting and always you make progress; and finally, after some time, by hardness or a fierce anger. Truth does not very longinsist on a blind adherence to the spoken word—as for instance, something like about twenty years—that's not much—you succeed in using your senses in if a man says that he will kill another under the impression that that other has done him a logical, rational, useful way grievous wrong and this helps you to enter into contact with afterwards carries out his word even when he has found out that the world consciouslyother was innocent and no wrong done. Otherwise you go like half-blind people groping in That is what literal adhesion to the darkness there, like this (''gesture''), trying spoken word would come to find your way and at every step bumping into something. Or maybe, you mistake the road and then you must begin again. You make if scrupulously held as a mistake you must correct itprinciple. And I tell you, it is like Truth on the contrary demands that a small exercise you can doman shall cleave to the principle of Truth in things only, which can be done during any... "Why is and in the case above the principle of Truth would demand that he should break his vow and not keep it like that? Why have you done that?"—"I don't know."—"Why have you arranged this in this way?"—"I don't know." If you are honest a man pledges himself to yourselfsomething that is against the principle of Truth, you will be obliged to say to yourself a hundred times a day, "I don't know." <ref>http://incarnateworde.in/cwm/06/31-march-1954#p26</ref><center>~</center>g...by personal preference, against the thought principle of Love and Compassion or against that gives it an agreeableof obedience and surrender to the Divine, comfortable feeling; it says, "Yes, is not Truth to keep that must pledge—for it would be it." But if you are quite honest a pledge to follow falsehood and scrupulous and do not allow your preferences how can truth be rooted in allegiance to come into play... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p30</ref><center>~</center>...the honest and sincere conclusion must falsehood? That would be: "I cannot judgean Asuric, I do not have the elements needed for a true judgment; therefore I will not judge, I will keep quietdivine Truthfulness." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1632/19misunderstanding-the-maymothers-1965words#p5p19</ref>

==Honesty and in Relation to Other Qualities==

Be sincere Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will. As the sadhak aspires to be an instrument of the Divine and honest one with the Divine, sincerity in him means that he is really in earnest in his aspiration and your mind refuses all other will be at restor impulse except the Divine's. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/honestysincerity#p3p5</ref>

It …it is only in obvious that honesty, straightforwardness, loyalty and sincerity are closely related. I think that it is extremely difficult for someone to be perfectly sincere without being loyal and trust that human society can progresshonest, but of course this demands the utmost.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0515/march6-18january-19641951#p6p33</ref>

Have An honest man does not need the courage marvels of Solomon's throne to be completely frank learn to speak the truth. The throne of truth dwells within his own heart; the rectitude of his soul cannot but inspire him with words of rectitude. He speaks the Divinetruth not because he is afraid of a teacher, a master or a judge, but because truth is the characteristic of an upright man, the stamp of his nature. Love of truth makes him face all fears. He speaks as he should, no matter what happens to him. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/1402/couragesincerity#p14p21</ref>

Only the heart that is free from fear, the spirit that is full of faith, the soul that is passionate for realization will remain for the final test and the last purification. …To all who have an emotional preference for the new ideas without a clear understanding of their supreme and urgent necessity, to all who understand the new ideas with their intellects only but have them not in their hearts, to all who, while loving and understanding the new ideas, have not faith to put aside the cloaks of prudence and dissimulation or courage to avow their faith openly before the world, the position is one of great perplexity.God is a hard master and will not be served by halves.All evasions, all subterfuges He cuts away and puts the question plain and loud; and before all mankind, before the friend ready to cut the ties of friendship asunder, before the enemy standing ready with lifted sword to slay the servants of God as soon as they confess their faith, it has to be answered: "Who is on the Lord's side?" Not once, not twice, but always that question is being put and the answer exacted.unless we If you are unwilling to answer, either you do not believe that it is God's work you are doing and are therefore unfit for it, or you have insufficient faith in His power to get His work done without the honesty help of your diplomacy and courage cunning, or you are unwilling to meet any plain risks in His service. To serve God under a cover is easy, to stipulate for safety in doing the work is natural to frail human nature, to look existence straight sympathise and applaud is cheap; but the work demands sterner stuff in the men who will do it and insists on complete service, fearless service and honest service. The waverer must make up his mind either to answer God's question or to give up the work. There is plenty for him to do in a cheap, safe and easy way if he cannot face, we shall never arrive at any effective solution the risks of its discords and oppositionsself-devotion. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/1907/kurukshetrathe-wheat-and-the-chaff#p5p2</ref>

===Physical BodyBeing===

...Falsehood in the body—that sort of juxtaposition of contraries, the inversion of the Vibration (only it doesn't really invert—it's a curious phenomenon: the vibration remains what it is but it's received inverted)—this falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the CONSCIOUSNESS. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is! I immediately made an experiment on my body to see if this held, if it actually works that way. And I realized that it's true! When you are open and in contact with the Divine, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joy—and all of this in the cells of the body. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude. To be sure of this, I repeated the experiment three or four times, and it was absolutely automatic, like the operation of a chemical formula: same conditions, same results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>

Honesty in the physical mindVital honesty: preliminary indispensable condition for transformationnot to allow our sensations and desires to falsify our judgement and determine our action.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/transformation-honesty#p5</ref><center>~</center>It is through a change in the vital that the deliverance from the blind vital energy must come—by the emergence of the true vital which is strong, wide, at peace, a willing instrument of the Divine and-of the Divine alone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-partsnature-of-the-beingvital#p9p51</ref><center>~</center>===Vital being=== Vital honesty: not to allow our sensations The vital is an indispensable instrument—no creation or strong action is possible without it. It is simply a question of mastering it and of converting it into the true vital which is at once strong and calm and desires to falsify our judgement capable of great intensity and determine our actionfree from ego.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/honestythe-nature-of-the-vital#p5p52</ref>

Mental honesty: one does not try to deceive others or to deceive oneself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p6</ref>

You catch yourself, don’t you, you suddenly catch yourself in the act of giving yourself somewhere in your head or here (''Mother indicates the heart''), here it is more serious… giving a very favourable little explanation. And only when you can get a grip on yourself, there, hold fast and look at yourself clearly in the face and say, “Do you think it is like that?”, then, if you are very courageous and put a very strong pressure, in the end you tell yourself, “Yes, I know very well that it is not like that!”

Things will be self-evident, Truth will shine through all forms, the possibility of error will disappear.’’<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-may-1958#p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7,p8,p9,p10,p11,p12,p13,p14,p15</ref>

==The Need for Complete Why is Honesty=Necessary?=

There is no reason for despondency; when one has progressed as far as you did, that is, so far as to feel and maintain the calm and have so much of the psychic discrimination and the psychic feeling, one has no right to despair of one's spiritual future. You could not yet carry out the discrimination into an entire psychic change, because a large part of the outer physical consciousness still took some pleasure in old movements and therefore their roots remained alive in the subconscient. When you were off your guard the whole thing rose up and there was a temporary and violent lapse. But this does not mean that the nature is not changeable. Only the calm inner conscious poise, the psychic discrimination and above all a will to change, stronger and steadier than before, must be so established that no uprising or invasion will be able to cloud even partly the discrimination or suspend the will. You saw the truth but this part of the old nature which rose up did not want to acknowledge—it wanted its play and imposed that on you. This time you must insist on a complete truthfulness in the whole being which will refuse to accept any denial of what the psychic discrimination sees or any affirmation or consent anywhere to what it disapproves, spiritual humility and the removal of self-righteousness, self-justification and the wish to impose yourself, the tendency to judge others etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast them out may take time, but if the will to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in the Mother's force, it can be done sooner than now seems possible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p6</ref> ==Truth and Divine Truthfulness== It is good if you have freed yourself from this bondage [a rigid insistence that one must always do what one has said one will do]. Love of Truth is divine, but this kind of truth is a very mixed product accompanied as it is by hardness or a fierce anger. Truth does not insist on a blind adherence to the spoken word—as for instance, if a man says that he will kill another under the impression that that other has done him a grievous wrong and afterwards carries out his word even when he has found out that the other was innocent and no wrong done. That is what literal adhesion to the spoken word would come to, if scrupulously held as a principle. Truth on the contrary demands that a man shall cleave to the principle of Truth in things only, and in the case above the principle of Truth would demand that he should break his vow and not keep it. If a man pledges himself to something that is against the principle of Truth, e.g. against the principle of Love and Compassion or against that of obedience and surrender to the Divine, it is not Truth to keep that pledge—for it would be a pledge to follow falsehood and how can truth be rooted in allegiance to falsehood? That would be an Asuric, not a divine Truthfulness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/misunderstanding-the-mothers-words#p19</ref> ==Role of Honesty in Religion== All which seems to show that here is an element in existence, perhaps the initial element, which we do not know how to conquer either because it cannot be conquered or because we have not looked at it with a strong and impartial gaze so as to recognise it calmly and fairly and know what it is. We must look existence in the face if our aim is to arrive at a right solution, whatever that solution may be. And to look existence in the face is to look God in the face; for the two cannot be separated, nor the responsibility for the laws of world-existence be shifted away from Him who created them or from That which constituted it. Yet here too we love to palliate and equivocate. We erect a God of Love and Mercy, a God of good, a God just, righteous and virtuous according to our own moral conceptions of justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the fault of selfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God. As if man had created the law of death and devouring in the animal world or that tremendous process by which Nature creates indeed and preserves but in the same step and by the same inextricable action slays and destroys. It is only a few religions which have had the courage to say without any reserve, like the Indian, that this enigmatic World-Power is one Deity, one Trinity, to lift up the image of the Force that acts in the world in the figure not only of the beneficent Durga, but of the terrible Kali in her blood-stained dance of destruction and to say, "This too is the Mother; this also know to be God; this too, if thou hast the strength, adore." And it is significant that the religion which has had this unflinching honesty and tremendous courage, has succeeded in creating a profound and wide-spread spirituality such as no other can parallel. For truth is the foundation of real spirituality and courage is its soul. ''Tasyai satyam āyatanam''. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/kurukshetra#p10</ref> ==Role of Honesty in Sadhana== ''Q. ... “When one is compelled to earn his living, should one just conform to the common code of honesty or should one be still more strict?'' ''A:'' This depends upon the attitude your friend has taken in life. If he wants to be a sadhak, it is indispensable that rules of ordinary morality do not have any value for him. Now, if he is an ordinary man living the ordinary life, it is a purely practical question, isn’t it? He must conform to the laws of the country in which he lives to avoid all trouble! But all these things which in ordinary life have a very relative value and can be looked upon with a certain indulgence, change totally the minute one decides to do yoga and enter the divine life. Then, all values change completely; what is honest in ordinary life, is no longer at all honest for you. Besides, there is such a reversal of values that one can no longer use the same ordinary language. If one wants to consecrate oneself to the divine life, one must do it truly, that is, give oneself entirely, no longer do anything for one’s own interest, depend exclusively upon the divine Power to which one abandons oneself. Everything changes completely, doesn’t it?—everything, everything, it is a reversal. What I have just read from this book applies solely to those who want to do yoga; for others it has no meaning, it is a language which makes no sense, but for those who want to do yoga it is imperative. It is always the same thing in all that we have recently read: one must be careful not to have one foot on one side and the other foot on the other, not to bestride two different boats each following its own course. This is what Sri Aurobindo said: one must not lead a “double life”. One must give up one thing or the other—one can’t follow both. This does not mean, however, that one is obliged to get out of the conditions of one’s life: it is the inner attitude which must be totally changed. One may do what one is in the habit of doing, but do it with quite a different attitude. I don’t say it is necessary to give up everything in life and go away into solitude, to an ashram necessarily, to do yoga. Now, it is true that if one does yoga in the world and in worldly circumstances, it is more difficult, but it is also more complete. Because, every minute one must face problems which do not present themselves to someone who has left everything and gone into solitude; for such a one these problems are reduced to a minimum while in life one meets all sorts of difficulties, beginning with the incomprehension of those around you with whom you have to deal; one must be ready for that, be armed with patience, and a great indifference. But in yoga one should no longer care for what people think or say; it is an absolutely indispensable starting-point. You must be absolutely immune to what the world may say or think of you and to the way it treats you. People’s understanding must be something quite immaterial to you and should not even slightly touch you. That is why it is generally much more difficult to remain in one’s usual surroundings and do yoga than to leave everything and go into solitude; it is much more difficult, but we are not here to do easy things—easy things we leave to those who do not think of transformationbest protection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0414/3-may-1951honesty#p14p1</ref>

Only the heart that is free from fear, the spirit that is full of faith, the soul that is passionate for realization will remain for the final test and the last purification. To men of doubtful views and undecided opinions the crisis precipitated by the decision of the Convention Committee will prove The things to be taught to a cruel embarrassment. To all who have an emotional preference for the new ideas without a clear understanding of their supreme and urgent child1) The necessity, to all who understand the new ideas with their intellects only but have them not in their hearts, to all who, while loving and understanding the new ideas, have not faith to put aside the cloaks of prudence and dissimulation or courage to avow their faith openly before the world, the position is one of great perplexityabsolute sincerity. God is a hard master and will not be served by halves. All evasions, all subterfuges He cuts away and puts the question plain and loud; and before all mankind, before the friend ready to cut the ties 2) The certitude of friendship asunder, before the enemy standing ready with lifted sword to slay the servants final victory of God as soon as they confess their faith, it has to be answered: "Who is on the Lord's side?" Not once, not twice, but always that question is being put and the answer exactedTruth. If you are unwilling to answer, either you do not believe that it is God's work you are doing and are therefore unfit for it, or you have insufficient faith in His power to get His work done without the help of your diplomacy and cunning, or you are unwilling@1058@ to meet any plain risks in His service. To serve God under a cover is easy, to stipulate for safety in doing the work is natural to frail human nature, to sympathise 3) The fpossibility and applaud is cheap; but the work demands sterner stuff in the men who will do it and insists on complete service, fearless service and honest service. The waverer must make up his mind either to answer God's question or to give up the workprogress. There is plenty for him to do in a cheapGood temper, safe and easy way if he cannot face the risks of selffair-devotionplay, truthfulness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/0712/the-wheat-and-the-chaffconduct#p2p42,p43,p44,p45,p46</ref>

Aspiration You see, for those who are sincere, sincere and will very—how to change are not so very far from each otherput it?—very straight in their aspiration, and if one has eitherthere is a marvellous help, it there is usually enough for going throughan absolutely living,—provided of course it maintains itselfactive consciousness which is ready to.. The opposition in certain parts of the being exists in every sadhak and can be very obstinate. Sincerity comes by having first the constant central aspiration or will, next, the honesty to see and avow the refusal respond to any attentive silence. You could do six years' work in parts of the beingsix months, finallybut there should... there should not be any pretension, the intention of seeing it through even thereshould not be anything which tries to imitate, however difficult it may there should beno wanting to put on airs. There should... You have admitted certain things changed in youshould be truly, so absolutely honest, pure, sincere, conscious that... you can no longer pretend that exist only by what comes from above. Then... then... then you have made no progress at allcould advance with giant strides.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/the-difficulties-of11-humannovember-nature1967#p25p156</ref>

There is experience. For a simple heart, a sincere and honest nature, a nature which knows that its experience is sincere, that it is not a falsification of desire or of mental ambition, but a spontaneous movement which comes from the soul—the experience is absolutely convincing. It loses its power of conviction when the desire to have an experience, or the ambition to think oneself very superior, becomes mixed with it. If you have that in you, then beware, because desires and ambitions falsify experience. The mind is a formative power, and Absolute truthfulness must govern life if you have a very strong desire for something very important and very interesting to happen to you, you can make it happen, at least in the eyes of those who see things superficially. But apart from these cases, if you are honest, sincere, spontaneous, and especially when experiences come to you without any effort on your part to have them, and as a spontaneous expression of your deeper aspiration, then these experiences carry with them the seal of an absolute authenticity; and even if the whole world tells you that they are nonsense and illusion, it does not change your personal convictions. But naturally, for this, you must not deceive yourself. You must be sincere and honest with a complete inner rectitude. [Based on Aphorism <12>- They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-12#p5</ref><center>~</center>Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will. As the sadhak aspires one wants to be an instrument of the Divine and one with the Divine, sincerity in him means that he is really in earnest in his aspiration and refuses all other will or impulse except the Divine's <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p5</ref><center>~</center>Your service close to the Divine must be scrupulously honest, disinterested and unselfish, otherwise it has no value.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/organisation-and-work#p90</ref><center>~</center>Therefore the qualities that make you worthy of leading the spiritual life are to have an inner balance, a balance in your action, and to be moderate in everything, to be sincere, honest, loyal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p57<14/ref><center>~</center>It is noteworthy that the two defects insisted upon here are lack of self-control and lack of loyalty. Loyalty means here sincerity, honesty; what the Dhammapada censures most severely is hypocrisy: to pretend that you want to live the spiritual life and not to do it, to pretend that you want to seek the truth and not to do it, to display the external signs of consecration to the divine life—here symbolised by the yellow robe—but within to be concerned only with oneself, one's selfishness and one's own needs.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p55</ref><center>~</center>Yes, my dear little child, I am always with you to help you, to support you, to guide you. By doing your work with conscientiousness, honesty and perseverance, you will feel my presence closer and closer to you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/29-june-1946#p3</ref><center>~</center>Straightforwardness means simply to be honest with oneself and with the Divine and not to be crooked in one's ways. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p25</ref>

==Honesty Indispensable Basis of YogaTo be Happy==

The indispensable basis of our Yoga is sincerityIn reality, honestyeven for a purely egoistic reason, unselfishnessto do good, disinterested consecration to be just, straight, honest is the work best means to be donequiet and peaceful, nobility of character and straightforwardness. They who do not practise these elementary virtues are not Sri Aurobindoto reduce one's disciples and have no place in the Ashramanxiety to a minimum. That is why I refuse to answer imbecile and groundless accusations against the Ashram emanating And if, besides, one could be disinterested, free from perverse personal motives and evil-intentioned mindsegoism, then it would be possible to become truly happy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1303/noconjugate-politicsverses#p37p105</ref>

It can or it may not. Why did not everything open up in me like A peaceful heart is the painting vision and some other things? All did not. As I told you I had to plod in many things. Otherwise the affair would not have taken so many years (30). In this Yoga one can't always take a short cut in everything. I had to work on each problem and on each conscious plane to solve or to transform and in each I had to take the blessed conditions as they were and do honest work without resorting to miracles. Of course if the consciousness grows all best reward of itself, it is all right, things will come with the growth, but not even then pell-mell in an easy gallophonesty.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3514/no-resorting-to-miracleshonesty#p4p2</ref> ==Victory over Falsehood==

Something you believe Indeed the very act of bringing it out and showing it to the Light would be true—which probably was true for a time—on which you partly base your action, but which, in actuality, was only one opinion. You thought it was itself a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, momentous conversion and your action (part pave the way to the final victory. For the laying bare of your action) was based on it, so that everything proceeded from it automatically. <ref>http://incarnateword.each falsehood is in/agenda/04/august-24-1963#p2</ref><center>~</center>itself a victory—each acknowledgment of error is the demolition of one of the greatest thief can lords of Darkness. It may be the most an acknowledgment to oneself, provided it is absolutely honest man (this and is not no subtle regret apt to encourage you to steal, of course!) be forgotten the next moment and without the greatest liar can be strength to make an unbreakable resolution not to repeat the most truthful personmistake. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0403/17victory-februaryover-1951falsehood#p24p1,p2</ref>

==Role of Honesty as a Superstition=in Religion=

About sex All which seems to show that here is an element in existence, perhaps the initial element, which we do not know how to conquer either because it cannot be conquered or because we have not looked at it with a strong and impartial gaze so as to recognise it calmly and Yoga—my teaching has been clearly written fairly and know what it is. We must look existence in the face if our aim is to arrive at a right solution, whatever that solution may be. And to look existence in the face is to look God in the Bases face; for the two cannot be separated, nor the responsibility for the laws of Yoga world-existence be shifted away from Him who created them or from That which constituted it. Yet here too we love to palliate and everyone knows how strongly the Mother has discountenanced these things equivocate. We erect a God of Love and considers purity from them Mercy, a God of good, a first requisite God just, righteous and virtuous according to our own moral conceptions of justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for success in some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the path fault of sadhanaselfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God. But there are very queer things As if man had created the law of death and devouring in the animal world or that have for long been inculcated tremendous process by which Nature creates indeed and preserves but in the Asram to newcomers same step and by the same inextricable action slays and destroys. It is only a few religions which have had the courage to visitors—e.g. say without any reserve, like the Indian, that truthfulness this enigmatic World-Power is a superstition and one Deity, one Trinity, to lift up the image of the Force that acts in the world in the more you lie figure not only of the better sadhak you are. That was beneficent Durga, but of the first thing taught terrible Kali in her blood-stained dance of destruction and to a sadhak who first came here many years ago and it say, "This too is only recently that he has discovered it was not my view or the Mother's; this also know to be God; this too, if thou hast the strength, adore. It " And it is not surprising significant that our work the religion which has had this unflinching honesty and tremendous courage, has succeeded in creating a profound and the Yoga should make wide-spread spirituality such slow progress when such perversities fill the atmosphereas no other can parallel. Whatever can be done to clear them out will be so much help to For truth is the work foundation of the Motherreal spirituality and courage is its soul. ''Tasyai satyam āyatanam''. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3519/sexual-relations-and-the-ashramkurukshetra#p57p10</ref>

==Not a Mental Construction=Role of Honesty in Sadhana=

This phenomenon is very real, concrete, it is felt with all the reality Be sincere and honest and intensity of even a physical phenomenonyour mind will be at rest. <ref>http://incarnateword. But in/cwm/14/honesty#p3</ref><center>~</center>Aspiration and will to change are not so very far from each person describes it with a form particular to himselfother, except as I say, when he and if one has read and studiedeither, and his brain it is full usually enough for going through,—provided of all that is written course it maintains itself. The opposition in books; then automatically what he has read gives a form to his experience, and this takes away from it something certain parts of the spontaneity which gives such an impression of being sincere exists in every sadhak and truthful; it becomes a mental constructioncan be very obstinate. If you have read and read much that it is like a serpent which is coiled upSincerity comes by having first the constant central aspiration or will, wellnext, quite naturally when you concentrate and try the honesty to awaken it, you see a serpent which is coiled, because you think about it like that. If you are told about a thousand-petalled lotus, you see a thousand-petalled lotus. But it is a mental superimposition upon the fact of the experience itself. But the feeling of something that's innumerable, that's one and innumerable at avow the same time, and that kind of impression refusal in parts of something opening, awakening, beginning to vibrate, responding to the forces and giving you an intensity of lightbeing, of understandingfinally, of opening to higher regions, this is... the substance intention of the experience. Yet when you begin to describe seeing it with images which you have found in booksthrough even there, however difficult it is as though suddenly you were making it either superficial—fossilised, so to say—or artificial or even insinceremay be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/22the-difficulties-of-junehuman-1955nature#p10p25</ref>

It ''Q. Friends from outside have often asked me this question: “When one is not the fact that if a man is truthful (in the sense of not lying)compelled to earn his living, all he says happens. For that he must know should one just conform to the Truth—be in touch with the truth common code of things, not merely speak the truth as his mind knows it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p6</ref>honesty or should one be still more strict?''

==Honesty ''A:'' This depends upon the attitude your friend has taken in life. If he wants to be a sadhak, it is indispensable that rules of ordinary morality do not have any value for him. Now, if he is an ordinary man living the ordinary life, it is a purely practical question, isn’t it? He must conform to the laws of the country in which he lives to avoid all trouble! But all these things which in ordinary life have a very relative value and Fear==can be looked upon with a certain indulgence, change totally the minute one decides to do yoga and enter the divine life. Then, all values change completely; what is honest in ordinary life, is no longer at all honest for you. Besides, there is such a reversal of values that one can no longer use the same ordinary language. If one wants to consecrate oneself to the divine life, one must do it truly, that is, give oneself entirely, no longer do anything for one’s own interest, depend exclusively upon the divine Power to which one abandons oneself. Everything changes completely, doesn’t it?—everything, everything, it is a reversal. What I have just read from this book applies solely to those who want to do yoga; for others it has no meaning, it is a language which makes no sense, but for those who want to do yoga it is imperative. It is always the same thing in all that we have recently read: one must be careful not to have one foot on one side and the other foot on the other, not to bestride two different boats each following its own course. This is what Sri Aurobindo said: one must not lead a “double life”. One must give up one thing or the other—one can’t follow both.

Why did This does not mean, however, that one is obliged to get out of the conditions of one’s life: it is the inner attitude which must be totally changed. One may do what one is in the fox speak habit of doing, but do it with quite a different attitude. I don’t say it is necessary to give up everything in this way? Was life and go away into solitude, to an ashram necessarily, to do yoga. Now, it is true that if one does yoga in the world and in worldly circumstances, it is more difficult, but it is also more complete. Because, every minute one must face problems which do not present themselves to someone who has left everything and gone into solitude; for such a one these problems are reduced to a minimum while in life one meets all sorts of difficulties, beginning with the incomprehension of those around you with whom you have to deal; one must be ready for that, be armed with patience, and a great indifference. But in yoga one should no longer care for what people think or say ; it is an absolutely indispensable starting-point. You must be absolutely immune to what he really thought? Ohthe world may say or think of you and to the way it treats you. People’s understanding must be something quite immaterial to you and should not even slightly touch you. That is why it is generally much more difficult to remain in one’s usual surroundings and do yoga than to leave everything and go into solitude; it is much more difficult, certainly but we are not! Was it then a sincere wish here to do easy things—easy things we leave to please the lion? Certainly those who do not that eitherthink of transformation. <ref>http://incarnateword. He spoke like in/cwm/04/3-may-1951#p14,p15</ref><center>~</center>The condition [''for the change of the lower vital''] is that because he was afraid, you must bring the sadhana into your physical consciousness and we can surely make allowances live for himthe sadhana and the Divine only. But nevertheless we You must admit give up positively the bad habits that his words were not truthful—merely artfulstill persist and never resume those that have ceased or been interrupted. And if Inner experiences are helpful to the mind and higher vital for change, but for the lower vital and the lion approved outer being a sadhana of self-discipline is indispensable. The external actions and the spirit in themmust change—your external thoughts and actions must be for the Divine only. There must be self-restraint, it was because he loved meatentire truthfulness, not trutha constant thought of the Divine in all you do. This is the way for the change of the lower vital. By your constant self-dedication and self-discipline the Force will be brought down into the external being and the change made. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0231/sinceritythe-lower-vital-being#p10p27</ref>

Even For a simple heart, a sincere and honest nature, a nature which knows that its experience is sincere, that it is not a falsification of desire or of mental ambition, but a spontaneous movement which comes from the soul—the experience is absolutely convincing. It loses its power of conviction when by chancethe desire to have an experience, as in or the story of Abu Abbasambition to think oneself very superior, becomes mixed with it forces . If you have that in you, then beware, because desires and ambitions falsify experience. The mind is a man formative power, and if you have a very strong desire for something very important and very interesting to speak the truthhappen to you, that does not you can make him truthful; forit happen, at least in the very next momenteyes of those who see things superficially. But apart from these cases, if you are honest, sincere, spontaneous, fear may drive him and especially when experiences come to speak you without franknessany effort on your part to have them, and as did a spontaneous expression of your deeper aspiration, then these experiences carry with them the seal of an absolute authenticity; and even if the fox in our previous talewhole world tells you that they are nonsense and illusion, it does not change your personal convictions. But naturally, for this, you must not deceive yourself. And that is what most often happensYou must be sincere and honest with a complete inner rectitude.

When a person [Based on Aphorism <12>- They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-12#p5</ref><center>~</center>Loyalty means here sincerity, honesty; what the Dhammapada censures most severely is forced hypocrisy: to pretend that you want to live the spiritual life and not to speak somethingdo it, to pretend that does you want to seek the truth and not make him truthful as at to do it, to display the very next moment fear may drive him external signs of consecration to speak without franknessthe divine life—here symbolised by the yellow robe—but within to be concerned only with oneself, one's selfishness and one's own needs. [Mother’s commentary is based on this verse of the Dhammapada—He who puts on the yellow robe while he is yet impure, lacking in self-control and lacking in loyalty, truly he is unworthy to wear the yellow robe of the monk.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0203/sincerityconjugate-verses#p20p55</ref>

=Reasons for Decrease in How to Develop Honesty?=

=Negative effects Fundamentally, all depends on the inner constitution of Decreasethe being. There are no two beings who are exactly alike; there are no two constitutions which are the same. And all depends on the inner organisation, the integral organisation of the being, on the order in which the elements are organised and what their inner relation—is even as the external form differs because the cells are not organised in the same way. But as this is a phenomenon you constantly see, in the midst of which you are born, which you see every day, it seems quite natural to you. But it is the same thing. It seems quite natural to you that a child is different from its mother and father—and yet this is the same thing. And in an emanation of the Supreme, to begin with, one part is necessarily different from the whole, though it may potentially contain the whole, but the whole is not expressed. And as the whole is not expressed, it is perforce different from the whole, for the inner organisation is different. <ref>http:/ Lack of Honesty=/incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25-november-1953#p52</ref>

...unless we have the honesty and courage to look existence straight in the face, we shall never arrive at any effective solution ==Process of its discords and oppositions. We must see first what life and the world are; afterwards, we can all the better set about finding the right way to transform them into what they should be. If this repellent aspect of existence holds in itself some secret of the final harmony, we shall by ignoring or belittling it miss that secret and all our efforts at a solution will fail by fault of our self-indulgent ignoring of the true elements of the problem. If, on the other hand, it is an enemy to be beaten down, trampled on, excised, eliminated, still we gain nothing by underrating its power and hold upon life or refusing to see how firmly it is rooted in the effective past and the actually operative principles of existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/kurukshetra#p5</ref>Cultivating Honesty==

=Why is Honesty Necessary?= ==Victory over Falsehood== Indeed If the very act of bringing it out and showing it will to the Light would be in itself a momentous conversion and pave the way true to the final victory. For the laying bare of each falsehood inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in itself a victory—each acknowledgment of error is the demolition of one of the lords of Darkness. It may be an acknowledgment to oneselfMother's force, provided it is absolutely honest and is no subtle regret apt to complete truthfulness can be forgotten the next moment and without the strength to make an unbreakable resolution not to repeat the mistakedone. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/victoryvigilance-resolution-will-and-the-overdivine-falsehoodhelp#p2p6</ref>

It is only when one is consciously identified with his divine Origin Only the calm inner conscious poise, the psychic discrimination and above all a will to change, stronger and steadier than before, must be so established that he can speak with complete truthfulness no uprising or invasion will be able to cloud even partly the discrimination or suspend the will. You saw the truth but this part of a memory of past livesthe old nature which rose up did not want to acknowledge—it wanted its play and imposed that on you. Sri Aurobindo speaks of This time you must insist on a progressive manifestation complete truthfulness in the whole being which will refuse to accept any denial of what the Spirit in the forms psychic discrimination sees or any affirmation or consent anywhere to what it inhabits. When one reaches disapproves, spiritual humility and the summit removal of this manifestationself-righteousness, self-justification and the wish to impose yourself, one has a plunging view of the path already traversedtendency to judge others etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast them out may take time, but if the will to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and one remembersalways calls in the Mother's force, it can be done sooner than now seems possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/undatedvigilance-1957resolution-will-and-the-divine-4help#p3p6</ref>

The only salvation This means that an effort is needed in an absolute sincerity and truthfulness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p26</ref><center>~</center>Absolute truthfulness must govern life if one wants order to be close to the Divinementally sincere.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/truth#p3</ref><center>~</center>There is only one thing needed to make anyone fit for the Mother's grace—it is a perfect sincerity and must be an effort, there must be a truthful openness to the Mother in all the beingdiscipline.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/sincerity#p2</ref><center>~</center>Become truthfulOf course, pure, sincere, straightforward. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-right-way-I am not speaking of-loving-the-mother#p11</ref><center>~</center>Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children. <ref>http://incarnateword.tell lies in/cwm/14/truth#p4</ref><center>~</center>All that is good, truthful and progressive is never destroyed by her. On the contrary, she protects and sustains it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/kali-mahakali-mahalakshmi-mahasaraswati#p10</ref><center>~</center>When a child wants order not to impress you by telling you stories of the wealth of his familybe caught, you must for everybody knows that this should not keep quietbe done. You must explain to him that worldly wealth does not count hereBesides, only the wealth that has been offered to most stupid lies are the Divine has some value; that you do not become big by living in big housesmost useless, travelling by first-class and spending money lavishly. You can increase in stature only by being truthful, sincere, obedient and grateful.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p117</ref><center>~</center>The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when men understand for they are so flagrant that they must be truthful even in their international dealingscan't deceive anyone.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/new-year-messages#p37</ref><center>~</center>Good temper, fair-play, truthfulness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p46</ref><center>~</center>In reality, even for a purely egoistic reason, to do good, to be just, straight, honest is the best means to be quiet Such examples occur constantly; you catch someone doing something wrong and peacefultell him, to reduce one"That's anxiety to how it is"; he gives a minimum. And ifsilly explanation which nobody can understand, besides, one could be disinterested, free from personal motives and egoism, then nobody can accept; it would be possible to become truly happy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p105</ref><center>~</center>Honesty is the best protection. <ref>http://incarnateword.silly but he gives it in/cwm/14/honesty#p1</ref><center>~</center>We always come back to the same thing: the absolute necessity for perfect sincerity, perfect honesty and a sense of the dignity hope of all we do so that we may do it as it should be doneshielding himself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-10-1958#p4<ref><center>~</center>A peaceful heart It is the best reward of honesty.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p2</ref><center>~</center>Be courageousspontaneous, enduringyou see, vigilant; above all, be sincere, with perfect honesty.<ref>http://incarnatewordbut he knows this is not done.in/cwm/12/messages-for-But the-annual-demonstration-other kind of-physical-culture#p10</ref><center>~</center>Nature recognises a clear, honest and recognisable knock at her doors deception is much more spontaneous and gives the result with an answering scrupulosity and diligence. And it is good so habitual that the spirit one is not aware of it. So, when we speak of the Master should leave its trace in his followersmental honesty, that somewhere in India there should be a body we speak of whom it can be said that when something which is acquired by a work is seen to be necessary very constant and right, the men will be forthcoming, the means forthcoming and that work will surely be done. <ref>http://incarnatewordsustained effort.in/cwsa/01/dayananda-the-man-and-his-work#p10</ref>

==Role You catch yourself, don’t you, you suddenly catch yourself in the act of Honesty for Transformation giving yourself somewhere in your head or here (''Mother indicates in the heart''), here it is more serious...giving a very favourable little explanation. And only when you can get a grip on yourself there, hold yourself there, hold fast and look at yourself clearly in the face and say, “Do you think it is like that?”, then, if you are very courageous and put a very strong pressure, in Different Parts of the being== end you tell yourself, “Yes. I know very well that it is not like that!”

===Honesty So, do not despair if you find in yourself the Soul===greatest weakness, for perhaps it is the sign of the greatest divine strength. Do not say, "I am like that, I can't be otherwise." It is not true. You are "like that" because, precisely, you ought to be the opposite. And all your difficulties are there just so that you may learn to transform them into the truth they are hiding. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p24</ref><center>~</center>Control over one's speech is more important than complete silence. The best thing is to learn to say only what is useful in the most accurate and truthful way possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/5-march-1933#p4</ref><center>~</center>First and always, we must ask ourselves what our instrument of judgment is. One must ask, “What is my judgment based on? Do I have perfect knowledge? What in me is judging? Do I have the divine consciousness? Am I completely disinterested in this matter? Am I free of all desire and all ego?”

The Gita applies this generalised analysis of And since the universal Energy answer to the psychological nature of man in relation to his bondage to Prakriti and the realisation of spiritual freedom. !14.6! Sattwa, it tells us, is by the purity of its quality a cause of light and illumination and by virtue of that purity it produces no !14.11! disease or morbidity or suffering in the nature. When into all these questions will be the doors in the body there comes a flooding of lightsame, as if the doors and windows of a closed house were opened to sunshinenamely, a light of understanding“no”, perception and knowledge,—when the intelligence is alert honest and illumined, the senses quickenedsincere conclusion must be: "I cannot judge, I do not have the whole mentality satisfied and full of brightness and the nervous being calmed and filled with an illumined ease and clarity, prasāda, one should understand that there has been elements needed for a great increase and uprising of the sattwic guna in the nature. For knowledge and a harmonious ease and pleasure and happiness are the characteristic results of sattwa. The pleasure that is sattwic is true judgment; therefore I will not only that contentment which an inner clarity of satisfied judge, I will and intelligence brings with it, but all delight and content produced by the soul’s possession of itself in light or by an accord or an adequate and truthful adjustment between the regarding soul and the surrounding Nature and her offered objects of desire and perceptionkeep quiet. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/16/19/above-themay-gunas1965#p10p4,p5</ref>

===Truthfulness in the Whole being=How to Inculcate Honesty In Children?==

There is no reason for despondency; when one has progressed as far as you didLittle children, that is, so far as to feel and maintain the calm and have so much of the psychic discrimination and the psychic feeling, one has no right to despair of one's spiritual future. You could not yet carry out the discrimination into an entire psychic change, because a large part of the outer physical consciousness still took some pleasure in old movements and therefore their roots remained alive in the subconscient. When you were off your guard the whole thing rose up and there was a temporary and violent lapse. But this does do not mean that the nature is not changeable. Only the calm inner conscious poise, the psychic discrimination and above all a will wait to change, stronger and steadier than before, must be so established that no uprising or invasion will be able to cloud even partly the discrimination or suspend the will. You saw the truth but this part of the old nature which rose grown up did not want to acknowledge—it wanted its play and imposed that on before you. This time you must insist on a complete truthfulness in the whole being which will refuse to accept any denial of what the psychic discrimination sees or any affirmation or consent anywhere to what it disapproves, spiritual humility and the removal of self-righteousness, self-justification and the wish to impose yourself, the tendency to judge others etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast them out may take time, but if the will learn to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in the Mother's force, it can truthful: that cannot be done sooner than now seems possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p6</ref> =How to Develop Honesty?= ==Prerequisites== Well, doesn't it ever occur to you to say: "How is it that this child whose father and mother are so good, so honest, so generous, so truthful, how is it that he is such a rascal?" You may wonder at it, but it does not seem anything impossible. So, this is the same thing. Fundamentally, all depends on the inner constitution of the being. There are no two beings who are exactly aliketoo early; there are no two constitutions which are the same. And all depends on the inner organisation, the integral organisation of the being, on the order in which the elements are organised and what their inner relation—is even as the external form differs because the cells are not organised in the same way. But as this is a phenomenon you constantly see, in the midst of which you are born, which you see every day, it seems quite natural to you. But it is the same thing. It seems quite natural to you that a child is different from its mother and father—and yet this is the same thing. And in an emanation of the Supreme, to begin with, one part is necessarily different from the whole, though it may potentially contain the whole, but the whole is not expressed. And as the whole is not expressed, it is perforce different from the whole, for the inner organisation is different. There then, I think that is enough.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25-november-1953#p52</ref> ==Process== This is a fact very little spoken about, but one of capital importance. And if you observe carefully you will see that it is always thus with everyone. This leads us to statements which are paradoxical but absolutely true; for instance, that the greatest thief can be the most honest man (this is not to encourage you to steal, of course!) and the greatest liar can be the most remain truthful person. So, do not despair if you find in yourself the greatest weakness, for perhaps it is the sign of the greatest divine strength. Do not say, "I am like that, I can't be otherwise." It is not true. You are "like that" because, precisely, you ought to be the opposite. And all your difficulties are there just so that you may learn never too soon to transform them into acquire the truth they are hidinghabit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0402/17-february-1951sincerity#p24p85</ref>

That is When a bit too much. Control over one's speech is more important than complete silencechild wants to impress you by telling you stories of the wealth of his family, you must not keep quiet. The best thing is You must explain to learn him that worldly wealth does not count here, only the wealth that has been offered to say only what is useful the Divine has some value; that you do not become big by living in the most accurate big houses, travelling by first-class and spending money lavishly. You can increase in stature only by being truthful way possible, sincere, obedient and grateful.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1712/5-march-1933conduct#p4p119</ref>

Valiant And above all, set them the right example.... Be yourself what you would like them to be . Give them the example of disinterestedness, patience, self-control, constant good humour, the overcoming of one's little personal dislikes, a sort of constant goodwill, an understanding of others' difficulties; and noble that equality of temper which makes children free from fear, for what makes children deceitful and truthful untruthful, and just even cunning, is the fear of being punished. If they feel secure, they will hide nothing and you will then be able to help them to be loyal and honest. Of all things the most important is good example. Sri Aurobindo speaks of that, of the invariable good humour one must have in all circumstances, this self-forgetfulness: not to throw one's own little troubles on others; when one is tired or uncomfortable, not to become unpleasant, impatient. This asks for quite some perfection, a self-control which is a great step on the path of realisation. If one fulfilled the conditions needed to be a true leader, even if only a leader of a small group of children, well, one would already be far advanced in the discipline needed for the accomplishment of the humbleyoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/0209/ilion10-april-1957#p3645p5</ref>

It There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is this artificialityto educate oneself, this insincerity, this complete lack to become conscious and master of truth oneself so that appeared so shocking one never sets a bad example to me one's child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective.To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches.Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. one wonders howParents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a world child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as false demigods whom he will try to imitate as this one, we best he can arrive at any truthful evaluation of things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0112/february-3-1958-1education#p21p5</ref>

==Process of Cultivating Mental Common Misunderstandings about Honesty==

This means that an effort is needed in order Something you believe to be mentally sincere. There must be an efforttrue—which probably was true for a time—on which you partly base your action, there must be a discipline. Of coursebut which, I am not speaking of those who tell lies in order not to be caughtactuality, for everybody knows that this should not be donewas only one opinion. BesidesYou thought it was a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, the most stupid lies are the most uselessand your action (part of your action) was based on it, for they are so flagrant that they can't deceive anyoneeverything proceeded from it automatically. Such examples occur constantly; Till suddenly an experience, a circumstance or an intuition warns you catch someone doing something wrong that your finding isn’t so true as it appeared to be (!) Then there is a whole period of observation and tell himstudy (sometimes too it comes as a revelation, "That's how it is"; he gives a silly explanation which nobody can understandmassive proof), and then it’s not just your idea or false knowledge that needs to be changed, nobody can accept; it is silly but he gives it in the hope also all its consequences, perhaps an entire way of shielding himselfacting on a particular point. It At that moment, you get a sort of sensation, something that feels like a sensation of renunciation; that is spontaneousto say, you seehave to undo a whole collection of things you had built. Sometimes it’s quite considerable, sometimes a very small thing, but he knows this the experience is not done. But the other kind same: the movement of deception is much more spontaneous a force, a dissolving power, and it is so habitual the resistance of all that one must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is not aware the contact of it. So, when we speak the movement of mental honesty, we speak dissolution with the corresponding resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of something which is acquired by a very constant and sustained effortrenunciation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/august-24-1963#p2</ref>

You catch yourself, don’t you, you suddenly catch yourself in the act of giving yourself somewhere in your head or here (Mother indicates in the heart), here it is more serious...giving ==Not a very favourable little explanation. And only when you can get a grip on yourself there, hold yourself there, hold fast and look at yourself clearly in the face and say, “Do you think it is like that?”, then, if you are very courageous and put a very strong pressure, in the end you tell yourself, “Yes. I know very well that it is not like that!”Mental Construction==

It sometimes …each person describes it [thousand-petalled lotus]with a form particular to himself, except as I say, when he has read and studied, and his brain is full of all that is written in books; then automatically what he has read gives a form to his experience, and this takes yearsaway from it something of the spontaneity which gives such an impression of being sincere and truthful; it becomes a mental construction. Time must pass, one must If you have changed read and read much within oneselfthat it is like a serpent which is coiled up, well, ones vision of things must have become differentquite naturally when you concentrate and try to awaken it, one must be in you see a different conditionserpent which is coiled, in because you think about it like that. If you are told about a different relation with circumstancesthousand-petalled lotus, in order to you see clearly completely how far one was deceiving oneselfa thousand- and petalled lotus. But it is a mental superimposition upon the fact of the experience itself. But the feeling of something that's innumerable, that moment 's one was convinced and innumerable at the same time, and that one was sincerekind of impression of something opening, awakening, beginning to vibrate, responding to the forces and giving you an intensity of light, of understanding, of opening to higher regions, this is.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-may-1958#p9</ref><center>~</center>''Qthe substance of the experience. (Another child) I had a dream in Yet when you begin to describe it with images which I went for blessings and you gave me three flowers: “mental honesty”have found in books, next “surrender”it is as though suddenly you were making it either superficial—fossilised, and last, I think, “quiet mind”so to say—or artificial or even insincere.''

''A:'' It is Always the most interesting cases for me have been those of people who had read nothing but had a fact. You have only very ardent aspiration and came to me saying, “Something funny has happened to take me, I had this extraordinary experience, what can it mean truly? “And then they describe a movement, a vibration, a force, a light, whatever it might be, it depends on each one, and they describe this, that it happened like that and make an effort to have a quiet mindcame like that, see and then this happened and then that , and what does it all mean, all this mind surrenders and becomes perfectly honest? Then here one is on the right side. It One knows that it is very goodnot an imagined experience, that it is a programme—and later to be concentrated onsincere, spontaneous one, and this always has a power of transformation much greater than the experience that was brought about by a mental knowledge. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0607/2622-mayjune-19541955#p62p10,p11</ref>

==How to Inculcate Reasons for Decrease in Honesty In Children?==

Little children, do not wait The extreme acuteness of your difficulties is due to be grown up before you learn the Yoga having come down against the bedrock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to be truthful: the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that cannot be done too early; and to remain truthful, it is never too soon to acquire leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the habit.<ref>http://incarnateword.Asram as well as in/cwm/02/sincerity#p85</ref><center>~</center>And above all, set them the right example...outside world. Be yourself what you would like them to be. Give them the example of disinterestednessDoubt, patiencediscouragement, self-controldiminution or loss of faith, constant good humourwaning of the vital enthusiasm for the ideal, perplexity and a baffling of the overcoming hope for the future are the common features of one's little personal dislikesthe difficulty. In the world outside there are much worse symptoms such as the general increase of cynicism, a sort refusal to believe in anything at all, a decrease of constant goodwillhonesty, an understanding of others' difficulties; and that equality of temper which makes children free from fearimmense corruption, a preoccupation with food, for what makes children deceitful and untruthfulmoney, and even cunningcomfort, is pleasure to the fear exclusion of being punished. If they feel secure, they will hide nothing higher things and you will then be able to help them to be loyal a general expectation of worse and honest. Of all worse things awaiting the most important is good exampleworld. Sri Aurobindo speaks of All that, of the invariable good humour one must have in all circumstanceshowever acute, this self-forgetfulness: not to throw one's own little troubles on others; when one is tired or uncomfortable, not to become unpleasant, impatient. This asks a temporary phenomenon for quite some perfection, a self-control which is a great step on those who know anything about the path workings of realisation. If one fulfilled the conditions needed to be a true leader, even if only a leader world-energy and the workings of a small group of childrenthe Spirit were prepared. I myself foresaw that this worst would come, well, one would already be far advanced in the discipline needed for the accomplishment darkness of night before the yogadawn; therefore I am not discouraged. <ref>http://incarnatewordI know what is preparing behind the darkness and can see and feel the first signs of its coming.in/cwm/09/10-april-1957#p5</ref><center>~</center>You see, Those who seek for those who are sincere, sincere the Divine have to stand firm and very—how to put it?—very straight persist in their aspiration, there is seeking; after a marvellous helptime, there is an absolutely living, active consciousness which is ready the darkness will fade and begin to... to respond to any attentive silence. You could do six years' work in six months, but there should... there should not be any pretension, there should not be anything which tries to imitate, there should be no wanting to put on airs. There should... you should be truly, absolutely honest, pure, sincere, conscious that... you exist only by what comes from above. Then... then... then you could advance with giant stridesdisappear and the Light will come.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/11the-novemberinconscient-1967and-the-integral-yoga#p156p5</ref>

He observes ...unless we have the discipline honesty and is always honest. <ref>http://incarnateword.courage to look existence straight in/cwm/12/conduct#p29</ref><center>~</center>And for a beginning take care to be honestthe face, sincere, straightforward, noble we shall never arrive at any effective solution of its discords and pure in a rigorous discipline that you will impose on yourselvesoppositions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p85</ref><center>~</center>There are other parents who know that their children We must be educated see first what life and who try the world are; afterwards, we can all the better set about finding the right way to do transform them into what they canshould be. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that If this repellent aspect of existence holds in itself some secret of the first thing to dofinal harmony, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to one's child. For we shall by ignoring or belittling it is above all through example miss that education becomes effective. To speak good words secret and to give wise advice to all our efforts at a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example solution will fail by fault of our self-indulgent ignoring of the true elements of what one teachesthe problem. SincerityIf, honestyon the other hand, straightforwardnessit is an enemy to be beaten down, couragetrampled on, disinterestednessexcised, unselfishnesseliminated, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than still we gain nothing by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal underrating its power and always act in accordance with hold upon life or refusing to see how firmly it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal is rooted in himself the effective past and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he canactually operative principles of existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1219/educationkurukshetra#p5</ref>

And for the cycle to be complete, one cannot stop on the way at any plane, not even the highest spiritual plane nor the plane closest to matter (like the occult plane in the vital, for example). One must descend right into matterAll that is good, truthful and this perfection in manifestation must be a material perfection, or otherwise the cycle is not complete—which explains why those who want to flee in order to realize the divine Will are in error. What must be done progressive is exactly the opposite! The two must be combined in a perfect waynever destroyed by her [Kali]. This is why all On the honest sciencescontrary, the sciences that are practiced sincerely, honestly, exclusively with a will to know, are difficult paths—yet such sure paths for the total realizationshe protects and sustains it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0115/octoberkali-mahakali-10mahalakshmi-1958mahasaraswati#p9p10</ref>

Overgrow your small egoistic personality and become The earth will enjoy a worthy child of our Mother India, fulfil your duties with honesty and rectitude, and always keep cheerful lasting and confident, with a steady trust living peace only when men understand that they must be truthful even in the Divine's Gracetheir international dealings.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1315/indianew-year-messages#p65p37</ref>

It is by being sincere, courageous, enduring and honest that you can best serve your country, make it one and great For the Governments honesty lies not only in the worldsaying what they are doing but also in doing what they say.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1315/indiahuman-unity#p16p4</ref>