Lying to Parents? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00When you speak to your parents on phone, do you disclose facts, really?

00:04I'm there in the shopping mall. The fact is this.

00:07But it's 10 p.m. and mama coming from a Vaishnav background thinks that, you know,

00:12the girl should be back maximum by 4 p.m.

00:1510 p.m. is Armageddon. Worse than World War III.

00:19If you just expose the facts, there will be disdain and discarding and disapproval.

00:25Whereas you are considered respectable and acceptable if you just keep presenting pleasant lies.

00:34Is that not what most youngsters do to their parents?

00:38One of the markers of good company is you don't have to lie there.

00:42Good company is where even your worst part is not frowned upon.