Karma means action of the body, mind or speech. It is not possible to be without action even for a few moments. Karma Yoga, as explained in the Bhagavad Gita, is skill in action. Skill here consists in remaining unaffected, unsmitten by the effects of actions. For understanding this skill it is necessary to understand the doctrine of karma, which is one of the fundamental assertions of Hindu philosophy. It says that an individual is accountable for each one of the multifarious deeds or actions performed in life, and one has necessarily to enjoy the fruits or effects, which may be good or bad, of each karma. They may be obtained in this life or in a future life. And during the present life, the fruits of karmas of past lives are obtained. Each karma leaves its trace in the mind, and that has a binding effect on the mind, because unless one enjoys the fruit of that trace, that keeps on sullying the mind by its presence. Thus at anytime the mind of everyone of us is a vast st