How was Kunti ever truthful when she lied to conceal Bhima’s identity?

From Abhiram Gopal Prabhu:
In Kunti’s character in video 2 in the Mahabharata Characters Course, in the same video you mentioned how she said that Bhima has mantras to kill the demon in ekachakra in order to hide revealing their identity and then you mentioned she had never spoken untruth and therefore Draupadi had to marry all 5 sons since it came from her mouth.

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
Hare Krishna question in the Mahabharata it is said that Kunti never spoke a lie and that’s why when she said that Draupadi that whatever you have got, share it so the Pandavas shared Draupadi as their common wife but then during the sometime before that when Bakasur was to be killed and Kunti told the Brahmanas who were hosting them that that Bhima had some special mantra given by a god by which he could kill even powerful demons now she spoke this so as to not reveal Bhima’s identity and wasn’t this a lie so how can it be said that that Kunti never spoke a lie answer there is standard Dharma and there is Apad Dharma Apad Dharma means the duty to be followed in emergency situations so consider when the Pandavas are in when they are meant to live incognito now if they are asked to identify themselves and when say Yudhishthira goes into or Arjuna goes into Virat’s palace and at that time if they are asked who they are now if Arjuna says I am Arjuna then there is just no way they can maintain the Agyatvas so in times of emergency there is Apad Dharma and in the scriptures itself especially in the Puranas in the Bhagavatam there is a reference to Apad Dharma and Prabhupada himself talked about it that if it is a matter of life or death normally one shouldn’t eat meat but if there is a matter of life or death then for surviving one can eat meat if it is a matter of absolute survival so that is Apad Dharma so like that when they were in danger in the Agyatvas as well as when the Pandavas were in danger when they had fled earlier when they had been in Varanavarth and an attempt had been made to burn them alive at that time it was an emergency situation for heirs, for those who were members of the royal family meant to become kings in future for them to be living incognito in poverty was definitely an emergency situation so in that emergency situation whatever was required within that emergency situation they did that so one thing was they had to conceal their identity now in this particular case Kunti’s purpose was that they had lived with the Brahmana, the Brahmana’s family had offered them hospitality and they wanted to do something to reciprocate with them and when the Brahmana’s family faced the danger of having to send a family member as food for Bakasur, Kunti felt this was an excellent way in which they could serve the Brahmana family and they could also do their Kshatriya duty of protecting their citizens protecting the people in general by ridding them of this menace of the man-eating demon but they at the same time couldn’t risk revealing their identity and so she had to speak something counterfactual at that time so her speaking at that time is not considered a violation of her truthfulness because that was an emergency situation and the Apadharma, the emergency Dharma allows for the subordination or suspension of certain principles of Dharma such as truthfulness when there is an emergency and that Apadharma was what Kunti followed.
Now the Pandavas decided to have Draupadi as their shared wife not just because Kunti said it yes Kunti’s saying was one thing which initiated that whole idea but later on it was Vyasa’s Vyasadeva’s confirmation and Vyasadeva’s description of a past life history which made this a will of destiny. That was all came together and made and arranged to make Draupadi the shared wife of the Pandavas Thank you. Hare Krishna