In plain words
I will tell you one small example. It is not for greatness that I tell it. Last week the mother of a person working in the Mahilā Vibhāg suddenly died. Hearing that she had died, she went and saw her. She stayed there for the night. At daybreak, as soon as she rose, she had to come to work here. At daybreak she bathed, came, and joined her duty. I asked, “You are still young. Your mother has died; why did you come to duty?” To that, from her: “Swami! Birth and death are natural. Along with birth, death too is natural. The two are a pair of birds, one with the other. For any human being, once birth has come, death cannot be escaped. What had to happen has gone by; but I must do my duty. Whose duty? God's duty. All the rest is impermanent, not lasting. But God's work is lasting. I have come for that work,” she said. In that way, those who live in the Mandir itself have been doing this same service for a long time. But though her mother had died, she turned her mind to God, thought of God even in her grief, and carried out her duty, her kartavya. She is the very one, a girl named Āśā, who sits beside nurse Śaurī. Her husband is Śiva Paṇḍit. He is a lecturer. There are many crores of people in the world who work sincerely like this. They are not toiling for a name, they are not toiling for prestige; they are toiling for Swami's service. They are toiling for Swami's grace. On the day such a feeling arises, only then has right teaching taken place. So if we put at least one or two things into practice, we become people who have achieved a great deal. So from that day to this she has not taken leave for a single day; duty is God. They live with the vow: I must do my duty. The women have tied on the bracelet of such a vow.
In the Bhagavad Gītā the Lord tied on three kinds of bracelets.
“Yadā yadāhi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata, abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmyahaṃ”: