Always remember: Your first and foremost commitment is towards what is righteous.
This commitment supersedes every other commitment: your country's political and administrative leadership, society, superiors at work, and if they are being unethical, then even your family, your parents, your relatives, your teachers or your Guru. Even when it comes to religious scriptures, if your conscience, your inner sense of right and wrong, makes you feel that something is wrong with what the scripture says, you have to respect your conscience and do what you feel is the right thing to do
Read the Bhagawad Gita. Understand Arjuna's predicament.
He enters the battlefield to fight a righteous 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 unethical, unrighteous, 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 an ethically 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 righteousness has to win. Whichever individual, family, society, country, aligns itself with righteousness, it enjoys the support of the divine. There is no "mine" and "others'" leeway allowed in this :).
In fact, righteousness 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 ethically correct and righteous 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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