उत्तमश्चिन्तितं कुर्यात् प्रोक्तकारी तु मध्यम: । अधमोऽश्रद्धया कुर्यादकर्तोच्चरितं पितु: ॥ ४४ ॥
uttamas cintitam kuryat prokta-kari tu madhyamah adhamo ’sraddhaya kuryad akartoccaritam pituh
- uttamah
- the best
- cintitam
- considering the father’s idea
- kuryat
- acts accordingly
- prokta-kari
- one who acts on the order of the father
- tu
- indeed
- madhyamah
- mediocre
- adhamah
- lower class
- asraddhaya
- without any faith
- kuryat
- acts
- akarta
- unwilling to do
- uccaritam
- like stool
- pituh
- of the father.
A son who acts by anticipating what his father wants him to do is first class, one who acts upon receiving his father’s order is second class, and one who executes his father’s order irreverently is third class. But a son who refuses his father’s order is like his father’s stool.