Whoever one may be, if one comes between you and God, you should forsake him. This is the teaching of the Veda. Indian Scriptures exhort, “Matru Devo Bhava Pitru Devo Bhava Acharya Devo Bhava” (Revere your mother, father and preceptor as God).

But Bharata disobeyed his mother as she was responsible for his separation from Lord Rama.

Prahlada disobeyed his father Hiranyakashipu, who tried to prevent him from chanting the name of Lord Hari.

Emperor Bali rejected the advice of his preceptor Sukracharya and offered himself to Lord Vishnu.

Vibhishana sought refuge in Lord Rama having forsaken his brother Ravana, who tried to come between him and the Lord.

Even though for a wife, the husband is her everything, Meera went away to Dwaraka, disobeying her husband, because he was obstructive in her Godward path.

Devotee enjoys an intimate and inseparable relationship with the Lord. Nobody has the right to come between the Lord and His devotee. You should establish and strengthen such relationship with the Lord and experience bliss therefrom. This is the meaning of friendship with the Lord. (Divine Discourse in Purnachandra Auditorium on 12-9-1989)

The Vedas have declared that in observing Dharma and doing one’s duty by the Divine, the opposing words of no one-- father, mother, preceptor or anybody else should be heeded. Bharatha, Prahlada, Meera and others are examples of those who went against the injunctions of mother, father, husband respectively in adhering to their devotion to the Lord. No one is entitled to be a barrier between the devotee and the Lord, whatever is his relationship with the devotee. (SSS Vol.22), 12-9-1989.