Pt. Vijay Shankar Mehta's column: Use discretion to obey and obey

Both the giver of the command and the one who obeys feel that if the ego is not obeyed, the ego will be hurt, even if it is obeyed, the ego will be hurt. Today, you will find cultured children, but you will rarely find obedient children. Nobody wants to listen to anybody. They all seem to have gone deaf. People in the houses are speaking loudly to each other. There was a time when people used to understand the commandments by looking at the eyes of the elders in their homes. Remember an incident from Ram Katha. Dashrath ordered that Rama has to go for 14 years in the guise of a forest dweller. Ram obeyed. A few days later, Dashrath's minister Sumant said, "Your father has ordered me to take you around for four days and take you back - Lakhnu Ramusiya Anehu Pheri." Rama, who obeyed the first commandment, immediately tells Sumant for the second command- The first command was given by my father for the observance of religion and the second command is immersed in delusion. I have enough discernment to decide which commandments to obey and which ones not to obey.