Everyday should be Father's and Mother's day

I was thinking how funny the idea of a father's day and a mothers day is to someone from a traditional culture, like traditional Indian culture, which is based on the Vedic culture.

In traditional cultures everyday is father's day and everyday is mother's day.

Upon getting up the children would go and greet their parents, touching their feet or offering obeisance out of respect. That is traditional culture.

In the western hemisphere, the ten commandments are ideals that have very powerfully shaped culture over the past 2,000 years and one of the commandments is to "Honor thy father and mother."

It's amazing that we need God to tell us honor our parents. Sad but true.

One of the many instructions that Radhanath Maharaj has given me that I have failed to execute properly is to offer obeisances to my parents everyday.

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." Mark Twain