Always remember: Your first and foremost commitment is towards what is morally correct, what is righteous.
This commitment supersedes every other commitment : your family, your parents, your relatives, your teachers, your Guru, any religious book, your boss, your country's political and administrative leadership, your fellow countrymen and countrywomen.
Read the Bhagawad Gita. Understand Arjuna's predicament.
He enters the battlefield to fight a morally just war and finds himself facing his elders, his teachers, his relatives, his fellow countrymen. He wants to quit.
Krishna says: Nothing doing! A just war has to be fought, no matter who is in the opposition.
You and I don't have to fight wars. But we must have the courage to call a spade a spade. If someone is being morally incorrect, no matter who it is, we have to be able to speak our minds and oppose them.
If we can do this, we become the backbone of a morally just and sound family, society and country.
If not, we only make things worse. We live what I call woogly woogly weak spirited lives ourselves and allow others to do the same.
Ultimately moral correctness has to win. Whichever individual, family, society, country, aligns itself with moral correctness, it enjoys the support of the divine. There is no "mine" and "others'" leeway allowed in this :) .
In fact, moral correctness is the correct translation of the word Dharma. The
usage of the word Dharma for religion is completely flawed.
Living a Dharmic life means being morally correct moment to moment, day to day.
And this is our highest commitment. To live Dharmic lives ourselves, to support
those who live Dharmic lives, and oppose those who don't.
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