Whenever someone lies in any subject matter not directly related to one's own survival, what will happen to a very honest, upright, wise man with a strong sense of dignity? It is extremely traumatic for one's soul. This is the most grievous insult for his uprightness and hence to his own existence. Any significant lie, if you are really really honest with yourself is equivalent to death of your morality. And what else is more valuable to the honest man than his moral value? It is indeed more precious than his life. Throughout the history of humankind we have seen thousands of people had committed suicide when they were found either by themselves or by others that they have lied in some significant way. Indeed lying and subsequent guilty feelings by honest men is the most common cause of suicide along with some psychiatric conditions, drug abuse, and psychological trauma. In most of those cases it either involved some wrongdoing or lying, with some rare exception where somebody took their own life for their loved one. If you have any insight into this subject matter, you would agree that wrongdoing, perceived wrong imposed on somebody or lying is the critical factor leading to a soul to commit suicide.

With this background, we can easily see that not only in our day to day common preference to the truth, our existence and our soul has a preference to stick with that truth. Why is this designed in such a way? After all, lying and devious short cut strategies are good to earn quick fame, wealth, money or comfort. Additionally if preference to truth and lie are truly random then it would be 50/50 in distribution. Why majority people agree on truth and why honest people who lied or did something wrong commit suicide? All these only suggest that there are some real deep utility and rationale to pursue truth and hence our innate conscious and unconscious preference to truth, not just for the sake of moral, ethical, religious or spiritual conviction.

These days people lie on important subject matter all the time but why they don't do what an honest person would do ie. suicide. This is because lying is so common today that everybody has to commit suicide if they are truly honest with themselves. If they did that, the human species would become extinct by now. To prevent such a grand calamity, the instinct of survival has been called for to protect humankind and propagate its continuity. How does the instinct of survival work to overcome the injury of lie on the soul? The instinct to survive is creating a barrier or rigid veil to cover up the injured site [ie. the lie] and thus the psychi cannot see it. The psychi cannot see it not because it’s no longer there, but because the lie has become a blind spot for the eye of the psychi, so the psychi cannot perceive it. Over long term, with repeated lies, it will be filled by these blind spots resulting in a complete dark black soul that will prevent your psychi to see the reality as it is and your access to your own soul for your examination. It's just like the visual blind spot. It's still there, as always, but we cannot see it. This is how the survival instinct is protecting us by making us blind on the fact that we have done something wrong or otherwise lied somehow. Otherwise, we would have committed suicide long ago, if we are absolutely honest with ourselves.

Now over our life time, many times we have chosen, out of our free will, devious shortcuts to cheat others, get easy money, fame, power, jobs, class grades, vanity, to control or gain favor of other people which invariably involved some sorts of hiding the truth or outright lying. In order to protect ourselves, our survival instinct has been called for innumerable times and each time it created some blind spots as described above. This why over time you will lose your ability to see things as they are [Cognitive Dissidence]. You will look at those thing with a heavily blinded psychic eye and will not see it. The world will be perceived in a distorted way, you will not find the ultimate truth of life, its purpose, its sublime beauty. You will anxious and uncomfortable all the time. You will feel something is missing. These subtle uneasiness will be so deep and hidden in your unconscious that eventually it will be repressed in the dark recess and will be lost forever. It will be manifested in alternative forms such as impulsive behavior, emotional outburst, unreasonable anxiety, and fear of death or impending doom. To compensate you will try some adventure sports, unusual sexual practices, drugs and rock & rolls but nothing will quench your thirst and your life will be living hell but you will not voluntarily acknowledges it out of dignity and pride but you know it in the back of the your mind and others will perceive it from your impulsive behavior. There is no escape from this eternal punishment on the soul for not seeing the ultimate truth and meaning of life.

This is exactly why all the Masters and Sages of all age emphasized purification of soul and altruism before you can embark for any form of initiation and discipleship towards the Truth. Once the student purify himself, and only when the student is ready, teacher will appear either from inside or outside, but it will appear for sure, for which I can bet my bottom dollar. The teacher will help you find the right questions to ask because your psychic eyes are no longer blinded anymore as discussed earlier. You will seek, and you will find. You will ask, and will be given. You will knock on the right door, and it will be opened for you. You will then find the truth all by yourself and that truth will set you free, forever.