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not have any binding effect on our soul. We shall try to understand what is meant by this ": nonattachment" to work.
This is the one great central idea in the Gita; to do work incessantly, but to be not attached to it or its results. "Samskara" can be translated very nearly by inherent tendency. Using the simile of a lake for the mind, every ripple or every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die out entirely, but leaves a mark behind; and there is the future possibility of that wave coming out again. This mark, whatever may be its nature, with the possibility of the wave reappearing, is what is called Samskara. Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, sub-consciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of such previous impressions on the mind. What I am just at this
