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'Lakshman', you may consider it a real and true family. A family is that where one son sacrifices for the sake of enabling his father to keep his word, the second brother goes to forest during the exile of one brother, thinking that it is not honourable to enjoy royal life when his one brother passes his life of banishment in a forest and the third brothers thinks it unfair and regardless to be crowned himself as a king when his elder brother is passing a life of banishment. He doesn't place himself on the royal crown but respectfully keeps the shoes of his elder brother on the royal seat in order to feel his brother's indirect presence and this way runs the empire.
One brother, if in a society, donates fifty thousands of rupees but if the elder brother of him is surviving in difficulties, then I would suggest him to help his brother first instead of donating something to the society. If you are elder one, play the role of your duty properly. If you fail to play your role, your rank becomes futile. An elder is one who can play the role of father to younger one. Lord Mahavira or Lord Buddha is worshipped by us or not, Lord Krishna or Mohammed is greeted or not but the Ramayana should certainly be followed and practised its teachings practically in our life. And then you will be able to offer your prayers to God in a temple in true sense else you will try to ignore your brother or avoid your parents.
In my opinion, a human being gets his shape in a family and the religion also begins from the house and family. We all know that family is the only center of learning, only school of knowledge where a child turns into his reality. As the family is so will the child be, mannered or barbarous. If you want your child to be civilized, cultured and mannered, give up all those bad things, bad habits that you have been performing so far. The children are like wet clay; they will get their shapes or get moulded as you want to mould them.
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