AIDS to Moral Character

“As fire is kindled into brilliancy,” says the Satpatha Brahmana, “when clarified butter is poured upon it, so the man who speaks truth acquires ever greater glory, and becomes daily more prosperous; while he who utters falsehood declines continually in glory, and becomes every day more wretched, as fire becomes extinguished when water is poured upon it; wherefore, a man should speak nothing but the truth.”