Living as per Nature
Nature has created the world in a very wonderful way - full of opposites, contrasts and contradictions. It is this quality which makes nature sustain itself. If the Nature has only one colour, one sex, only good, impeccable order – it would have become extinct by now.
Nature has deliberately created contrasts of things, beings and behaviour. The contrasts are so skillfully embedded in our psyche that they unfold in an enigmatic way. To let the contrasts come out, one has to be natural. Nature ordained each of us with a behavioural pattern – the butcher has to kill, the writer has to write..just imagine if a butcher refuses to cut the flesh and insists on writing poetry..or the writer wants to kill. It won’t jell.
For every which way that nature appears there is a PURPOSE. It will be beyond us to know this purpose. The purpose of Ravana in stealing Sita was to give Ramayana to the posterity.
It is therefore necessary to be ‘natural’, let the nature in you - lead you. Any attempt to conceal what comes from within is not only unnatural, but would raise tensions within making you feel miserable.
Changing Nature?
You may say, I want to change my nature, so that I will be a perfect person.. a perfect wife, perfect mother, perfect lecturer etc..
Yes, change of Nature is possible, but not by bodily efforts. You cannot change nature by denying its current form. You can change your nature only by Yogic methods and after prolonged sadhana. Yoga allows a perfect setting – a calmness, spiritual silence within - to let the Nature unfold itself, or change itself. It is only in depths of silence that the voice of God is heard, said a wise man. What he basically means that if the Nature has to change, it can be done only through perfect silence achieved through Yogic means. But that may need a change of place, many hours of meditation.. yes, sure you can do it.
But till then, go by your nature, don’t deny it, accept it.
