I WILL DIE UNPOPULAR

One principle, one policy, one path,

Leads to divinity is speaking truth,

Certainly in a smart manner,

Using words pleasing and sober.

Instead of saying, “Your father is dead”,

One can say,” His soul rested in heavenly abode”

But in no way a positive news can be conveyed,

To appease or comfort one’s restless mind.

Hiding or avoiding or tempering a truth,

And administering a pleasant untruth,

To appease someone or achieve a goal,

Is a path adverse to the morality eternal.

There always is a strong, unsurpassable wall,

Between truth and untruth, God and devil.

One can’t be half-honest and half-dishonest,

Either one is honest and with the God or against.

I know, I will die unpopular,

As I administer the truth, both sweet and bitter,

As I think half-truth is half-lie in disguise,

And nothing but opportunism; away from holiness.

                                     "Satyam bruyat priyam bruyat, bruyat satyam apriyam;:"

  Speak the truth, speak it pleasant but also speak the truth even if it is unpleasant. Never speak pleasant untruth.

I categorically disagree with the Manu Smriti decree, that only the pleasant truth and not the unpleasant truth should be administered. I believe God lives in the truth.