"We all have different types of duties and responsibilities towards our family, our society, our spiritual life and our dharma – righteousness. We are one big family; we depend on each other for our existence – we cannot exist alone. Therefore, Therefore, we should work for the good of all. That is what dharma essentially is, to perform our duties... When we think of our duties towards our family, our society, our religious life and our dharma, we do not become self-centred, but start to think more about others, trying to do things for others; that is what is called seva – selfless service. Through the spirit of selfless service we become detached and our mind becomes purified. The essential teaching of the Bhagavad Gita is to do seva. Lord Krishna said that through that spirit of selfless activities, when we have nothing to gain and nothing to lose by not doing, performing seva all the time to our family, and so on, we attain that height of realization whereby our mind becomes absorbed in God."
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