Look, my children, parents are the greatest gurus in this world. As long as they are alive, one should serve them to one’s utmost ability; when they die, one should perform the shraddha ceremony as far as one is able. One who is poor and has no means to perform the shraddha ceremony for parents should go to the forest and weep for their memory, thus repaying the debt to them.
One may disobey one’s parents without incurring any sin only for the sake of God. Although his father forbade it, Prahlada did not stop repeating the name of Krishna. Dhruva disobeyed his mother and went into the forest to practice austerities. But in performing these actions, neither of them incurred any sin.
- Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P 615
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