Parashara said The father, the friends, the preceptors, and the wishes of the preceptors of men who are shorn of devotion, are unable to give to those men the merits derivable from devotion. Only they who are firmly devoted to such elders, who speak what is agreeable to them, who speek their well-being, and who are submissive to them in conduct, can acquire the merit to devotion.
पराशर उवाच पिता सखायो गुरवः स्त्रियश्च न निर्गुणानां हि भवन्ति लोके। अनन्यभक्ता: प्रियवादिनश्च हिताश्च वश्याश्च भवन्ति राजन्॥