If everyone does not surrender to the “supreme” Constitution, the country will be at risk of being “pushed to anarchy”, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Friday, according to PTI.

“We all are under the constitutional sovereignty, and we have to surrender to constitutional supremacy,” he said while speaking to members of the All Odisha Lawyers’ Association. “We have to keep in mind that all, including the legislature, executive and judiciary, are under constitutional sovereignty.”

Misra addressed the lawyers in Odia and cited a verse from the Mahabharata to talk about the law, The Times of India reported. “When Duryodhana asked his mother Gandhari for blessings to win the war, she said ‘Yato Dharma Stato Jaya’, or where there is dharma, there is victory,” Misra said, adding that the concept of dharma shows “we have to obey the rule of the law”.

The chief justice’s comments come days after Bharatiya Janata Party minister Anantkumar Hegde said the Constitution needs to be amended, and that his government was here to change it. Hegde apologised for his remarks in Lok Sabha on Thursday, saying he deeply respects the Constitution and would never go against it.