The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya and Swami Chidbhavananda's Bhagavad Gita, both published by Ramakrishna Mission
The characteristics of the three gunas are now explained
The Function of the Gunas 5-10
1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 9
Sattvam sukhe sanjayati rajah karmani bharata I
Gyanam avruta tu tamah pramade sanjayati uta II sloka 9
सत्त्वं सुखे संजयति रजः कर्माणि भारत I ज्ञानं आवृत तु तमः प्रमादे संजयति उत II श्लोक 9
Sattva binds one to happiness, and rajas to action, O Bharata, while tamas verily veils knowledge and binds one to heedlessness.
The temperament predominant in a man is the indicator of the guna in which he has moulded himself. Sattva is in ascendancy in the man given to pleasures ranging from the physical to intellectual and ethical. Rajas dominates in him who is ever active and engages himself in all sorts of enterprises. The man who is callous about his duty, who wastes time without compunction, who squanders his money foolishly - such a man is immersed in tamas.
How these gunas act upon one another is given in the next sloka.
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