A person with an anger samskara is prone to anger over anything. His behavior has very little to do with external events; by conditioning, anger has simply become the way his mind responds to life. By thinking angry thoughts, saying unkind things, and finally indulging in hostile behavior, he has made himself an angry person. A kind of neurological shortcut has been dug in his mind, down which consciousness flows automatically to the same conditioned response.
— Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2