Listen to me, O Yudhishthira, what the merit is of the worship of the father and the mother. He who dutifully serves his father without ever provO king him in anything, or similarly serves his mother or (elder) brother or other senior or preceptor, it should be known, O king, acquires a residence in Heaven. The man of purified soul, on account of such service done to his seniors, has never to even see Hell.
मातापित्रोः पूजने यो धर्मस्तमपि मे शृणु॥ शुश्रूषते य: पितरं न चासूयेत् कदाचन। मातरं भ्रातरं वापि गुरुमाचार्यमेव च।॥ तस्य राजन् फलं विद्धि स्वर्लोके स्थानमर्चितम्। न च पश्येत नरकं गुरुशुश्रूषयाऽऽत्मवान्॥