A class on Chapter 3, The Yoga of Action, from the Bhagavad Gita, as translated by Stephen Mitchell, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2000. The class spent time on the passage: Actions are really performed 
by the working of the three gunas; 
but a man deluded by the I-sense 
imagines, "I am the doer." The three gunas are: satva, rajas and tamas A SATVA person is peaceful, contemplative and compassionate A RAJAS person is dynamic, energetic and busy A TAMAS person is lethargic, bored, detached