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THIRTEENTH TALK 263 we had the same rule at the present day, only you cannot live in the world and carry that out. But that we should ^J-1 be a good deal better if we all talked a good deal less, is probably true. You know people who are always talking cannot always be talking profitably or sensibly; furthermore they cannot always be truthful. That may seem hard. It is true that if people are always talking loosely, quite certainly some of the things which they say will not be true, even though not intentionally untrue. The curious thing is that people so often do not realise the facts of the case. They make all sorts of inaccurate statements, then they say: t( Well, I did not mean to be inaccurate, so it does not matter." Do you not realise that it is not what you mean, but what you do, that produces results ? If you do a foolish thing the fact that you did it with a good intention does not save it from being a foolish thing, and does not in the least prevent you from getting the physical karma of the foolish'thing. Of course you will also get the credit of the good intention. That will make good results, but the foolish thing will bring its bad result, and you will get the karma of that. So with all these rash statements ; a person says something, then he corrects himself and says, (i I see I was wrong, it is not quite like that.9' He has told a falsehood; he did not mean it, but he has made an assertion which is not true. That is a false- hood and you cannot get over it, and the fact that