If the soul’s nature is to love and serve Krishna, where does our nature to love and serve worldly things come from?

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Hare Krishna question from Panchpande Prabhu when the soul’s original nature is to love and serve God then where does the nature to love and serve worldly things come from at one level it comes from the body and mind just as if a parrot a he parrot is attracted to a she parrot where does that come from the soul in the he parrot’s body the she parrot’s body the souls are still transcendental but that body when covering that shapes the soul’s desire in such a way that the soul doesn’t think about God soul doesn’t think soul only thinks about bodily survival as we say eating sleeping mating and defending doesn’t think of anything higher so it is our body and mind which shape the soul’s desire the soul’s longings the soul’s nature becomes distorted water that is pure when it falls into a dirty place it becomes dirty so like that when the soul comes in contact with matter its desires its longings becomes materially transformed and this is at one level and another level we understand that actually the soul though its spiritual when it comes in a material environment it remains unaffected because the soul is transcendental it is not affected by matter so that means that the soul’s original nature to love and serve Krishna is still there but it has become dormant so it is not that it is not there it has become dormant just like a person who is watching a movie that person still has a mother and a father a family and a person still loves that family but when the person starts watching the movie and gets completely absorbed in the movie when the person starts identifying with the hero and the heroine and the hero’s father and the hero’s mother and the heroine’s mother or whatever and develops emotions in connection with them now the capacity to relate with one’s own parents one’s own family members is there but because of these stimuli and because of this absorption in the stimuli which is coming on the movie theatre they are lost so like that the soul’s original nature is currently lost but it can be revived and it is revived by the practice of spirituality so our original nature is never lost but it has become dormant and based on the kind of material exposure that we get in terms of the body and the mind and in terms of the external culture we get attracted towards certain things and those things attraction to those things becomes our conditioned nature