Should I Speak the Truth if Another is Hurt?
It so happened that once, when a monk was sitting by his little hut, a frightened man with a bundle ran past him and disappeared into a cave nearby. A couple of minutes later, there came a band of fierce robbers with gleaming knives, apparently looking for this man. Knowing that the monk would not lie, they asked him where the man with the bundle was hiding. At once, the monk, true to his vow of not uttering falsehood, showed them the cave. The cruel robbers rushed into it, dragged out the scared man, killed him mercilessly, and departed with his bundle. The monk never realized that he had been instrumental in the murder of a man. If by speaking the truth, another is hurt it ceases to be truth.
—Building a Noble World by Shiv R. Jhawar, p.117
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