Do our present natures reflect our soul’s nature or our upbringing?
Do we have different natures because we have different constitutional positions in the spiritual world or is it because of the way we have been brought up actually right now our nature is largely determined by our body and mind it is not necessarily reflective of the soul for example our bodies have particular genders but that is not necessarily the nature of the soul in the spiritual world somebody may be a male in this world and they may be a gopi in the spiritual world so our present nature comes largely from the body and the mind not so much from the soul and the body and the mind they are shaped both by this life and past lives so past life gives us a certain starting point and this this life it shapes us in terms of upbringing that we have, the association that we have so both past life and this life impressions they shape our behavior so our sobhava comes from the purva janma samskara that's past life impressions and also this life's upbringing that's it.