Both are right at their own place... do you really believe, if there was no force people will do the right thing out of compassion. Do you really think, everyone will help a helpless old lady and not robb her... Come on come to reality.... compassion is good for that perfect world where people are nice.... otherwise we need these laws, rules. If everyone was compassionate about helping the lady... then ok , but not everyone is about helping people... so we need this sense of duty where it says respect your elders... so may be just may be someone might change his/her mind and help this old lady... Just think about this... remove law from this earth.. and imagine where our compassion takes us.... Finally, I don't know how this thread became debate about life issuse, all I wanted to clear up was that MANTRA's MEANING... I never said its good bad... all I wanted to clear was its meaning....