Lies!
[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
721
[Swamiji's Commentary on a Reading]
. . . innocent lies are untruths all the same
Sri Ramakrishna said to one of his friends that he would go and visit him on a particular day. But he forgot till almost midnight. Then he went to the man's garden house but found the gate locked. He put one foot in there and shouted, 'Here! I have come.' Do you see how Master stuck to truth? This may seem a senseless action by the Master. No. Once you get in the habit of doing everything truthfully your conscience hurts you and makes you do the truthful thing.
. . . wishing to keep the incident of the Kalighat priest kicking him a secret, the Master asked Hriday his nephew to elicit from him a promise not to mention it to anybody. Hriday at first objected but Sri Ramakrishna made him elicit the promise from him three times and then remarked, 'Now it will never escape my lips.'
[Swamiji explains] Shivanath, Mathur Babu's [the son in law of the Rani Rasmani, founder of the temple] family priest, became jealous of Sri Ramakrishna because Sri Ramakrishna was naturally getting name, fame, position and adoration. So the family priest became very jealous and one day he kicked Master. Sri Ramakrishna knew that if Mathur Babu came to know about it he would get rid of that priest. So he made Hriday ask him three times to promise that he would not tell anybody.
Three times Master promised this. And instead of keeping his promise to God, the abstract, he kept his promise to man. He never mentioned it to anybody while the priest was working there.
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