Should Children Obey Unrighteous Parents?
Someone I know chose a path of righteousness, and in doing so, he made a decision, of course on the advice of his enlightened master, to leave his hearth and home, to lead the life as planned and designed by his spiritual master. As expected, all hell broke loose on all fronts as kith and kin, chucks, parents and people who had, hitherto, been utter strangers, almost overnight became psychologists, counsellors, erudite pundits and even spiritualists, who gratuitously dished out pabulum and insipid spiritual advice to the righteous son, who chose the path that kept him close to the truth.
The poker-face neurosurgeon, who coldly explains the intricate medical procedures to his patient, who is about to have his cranium cracked open by the said surgeon, flinches and even perhaps quails when he has to do the same to his loved ones. Not even a brain surgery; perhaps even a little nick on the big toe to remove an embedded wooden splinter.
People generally get attached to one aspect of a truth---oftentimes the part that serves their own interest---and blithely ignore the kernel part that makes the whole truth an organic whole. Not many have been endowed with the wisdom, or have the endurance and the fortitude to face truism; Truth as it is. They like to see and hear what they are accustomed and acclimatized to, not what something truly and intrinsically is. It is the same attitude that people have when they approach a highly-evolved spiritualist, or even God, for that matter. They want to hear and see what they have been trained to believe in, or what they believe to be the truths. This is the principal reason why people who are given to carnality could scarcely see beyond the pale of nudity, lust and sensuality when they read Krishna Leela.
Very much indoctrinated, rather smoothly "marinated" by social construct, western hegemony and pseudo-values from spurious social media, whose anonymous authors are ever ready to smother them with codswallop, people spew up all kinds of questionable values that are at variance with life's purpose.
In the following satsang, Swami Sri Velkuddi Krishnan, a Hindu religious scholar who is an exponent of Sri Vaishnavism, addresses the issue of whether a child could or should disobey his parents, who, to all intents and purposes, are mortally wrong, or who are not acting in consonant with the path of Dharma. Swamiji, who is a past master at the Vedas, Upanishads, puranas, and at everything that makes Hinduism complete, gives a telling answer to the question of whether a child is shastritically and dharmically bound to abide by the orders, advice of parents who are unrighteous and blind to dharmic ways of life prescribed by the Dharma shastras and self-realised masters.
People generally get attached to one aspect of a truth---oftentimes the part that serves their own interest---and blithely ignore the kernel part that makes the whole truth an organic whole. Not many have been endowed with the wisdom, or have the endurance and the fortitude to face truism; Truth as it is. They like to see and hear what they are accustomed and acclimatized to, not what something truly and intrinsically is. It is the same attitude that people have when they approach a highly-evolved spiritualist, or even God, for that matter. They want to hear and see what they have been trained to believe in, or what they believe to be the truths. This is the principal reason why people who are given to carnality could scarcely see beyond the pale of nudity, lust and sensuality when they read Krishna Leela.
In the following satsang, Swami Sri Velkuddi Krishnan, a Hindu religious scholar who is an exponent of Sri Vaishnavism, addresses the issue of whether a child could or should disobey his parents, who, to all intents and purposes, are mortally wrong, or who are not acting in consonant with the path of Dharma. Swamiji, who is a past master at the Vedas, Upanishads, puranas, and at everything that makes Hinduism complete, gives a telling answer to the question of whether a child is shastritically and dharmically bound to abide by the orders, advice of parents who are unrighteous and blind to dharmic ways of life prescribed by the Dharma shastras and self-realised masters.
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