Om Swami
Why does untruthfulness make my spiritual practice and tapasya go to waste?
Lies drain your spiritual practice
Untruthfulness is like a bucket with no bottom: whatever you pour in through austerity runs out at once. Speak less, so you can stay established in the feeling of truth.
When a person becomes untruthful in speech, feeling and conduct, however much austerity and practice he does, it is spent and finished that very moment.