If once you speak something false, then to protect that falsehood you have to take to so many other falsehoods. This is the way of falsehood

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"If once you speak something false, then to protect that falsehood you have to take to so many other falsehoods. This is the way of falsehood"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

If once you speak something false, then to protect that falsehood you have to take to so many other falsehoods. This is the way of falsehood.

750604 - Morning Walk - Honolulu

Bali-mardana: . . . used to say that they can control the weather. They used to make big propaganda, "We are now going to control."

Prabhupāda: Another foolish propaganda.

Bali-mardana: Now they have given up.

Prabhupāda: You see? They want to draw some salary, big salaries, by bluffing the government and the public. This is their business. They are failing. They have finished their business on this planet; now they are going another planet. These are nonsense. (break) They know that "We . . . So as far as possible, we have bluffed. Now our business in this planet is finished. So let us go to another planet." This is going on.

Paramahaṁsa: Even if they wanted to stop this space project, they couldn't stop, because they've already spent billions of dollars for making equipment and rocket ships and launching pads and rocket bases and so many employees. If they stop, then so much would be wasted, so many people would be unemployed. So they have to continue even if they know that it's a bluff.

Prabhupāda: That is the way of falsehood. If once you speak something false, then to protect that falsehood you have to take to so many other falsehoods. This is the way of falsehood.

Paramahaṁsa: One lie leads to another.