BV updates: March 22, 2026
Hari Om Parents,
Today we saw two letters. O and R.
IT IS O FOR OBEDIENCE. In the Srimad Bhagavatam, while describing the nine modes of Bhakti, Prahlad first mentions SHRAVANAM which means listening. Listening forms a part of obedience. Children should obey whatever their parents say. Obedience means doing the work as is told by our parents to do. When Rama was asked to go to the forest by his mother Kaikeyi, he obediently followed whatever His mother had said. And ultimately it lead to the destruction of the evil minded Ravana. The first and foremost person that a person can rely on are his parents. Obeying whatever they say will only lead that person to good. However bad a person maybe, when he or she becomes a father or mother, they cannot do evil for their children. So children can blindly follow their parents. This is illustrated by a story. Vikram is a small boy who went on sailing with his father. Suddenly the ship caught fire and everybody ran hither and thither. Vikram's father positioned him in a safe place and told him not to move aside from that place. Vikram obeyed his father and he remained in that place itself and his father went on saving the other people in the ship. The people called Vikram to take the life jacket and start running from there because the fire was spreading very rapidly. But Vikram stood firmly in the place where his father had told him to stand. At last the father saved Vikram too and both of them were safe now. Vikram's father was very proud of his obedient son. Children! Always listen to your parents and do as they tell you to do.
IT IS R FOR RIGHT. Doing the right thing is very important. Just running away from a particular problem will not solve the issue. If you know that a particular action is a good thing to do, we should not hesitate to perform that action. Like how it is happening. A king went on a round in his kingdom and came across a rock lying on the road. It certainly is a hindrance to all. But the king wanted to know who will move the rock aside. So he hid himself behind a tree and started watching. After sometime, a farmer came in his bullock cart and stumbled on the rock and all his stuff shattered on the road. But he was not bothered to move the rock. Then a soldier came on his horse. He too stumbled but did not move the rock. Many people crossed the rock and they too faced hindrances but none bothered to move the rock away. The king was hiding behind the tree and watching all this. Finally an old man came with a basket full of fruits and he too stumbled on it. His fruits shattered. At that time a small boy came that way and helped the old man to collect his fruits and this little boy started to push the rock away from the road. It was heavy for him but he tried and tried and the rock started to move slowly. The king was very pleased with this little boy and he came to lend a helping hand for this boy and both moved the rock away from the road. The king rewarded the boy with many gifts for the right action that he did. If a particular thing is causing difficulty then it is a right thing to remove it from the place. ALWAYS DON'T HESITATE TO DO THE RIGHT ACTION.
With Gurudev's blessings,
Sujata Arunkumar
Malathy Balasubramanian
