Will a person with vaishya nature transcend that nature by spiritual growth?

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See, somebody has a Vaishya nature of making money. Will that person, by becoming spiritually purified, eventually give up that nature? Or will that nature continue till death? And will it continue beyond death also? If in the spiritual world also they would have that nature? No, definitely, in the spiritual world it is different.
So that is a nature based on the soul’s swaroopa, which can be quite different. Now in this life, whether our nature will change or not, it is variable. See, broadly speaking, nature is something which can’t be infinitely changed, even by spiritual practices.
See, it is just like, if I have a car, if I am a train driver, maybe I will be able to drive the car much more expertly than if I am not a train driver. But ultimately, a car can never run like an airplane. But similarly, say, a person of a particular nature, it is not that, if a person is of a Vaishya nature, it is not that they will become Brahmanas.
But even Vaishya activity can be done with a greater proportion of goodness and it can be done with a lesser proportion of goodness. So, Kshatriya activity also. So, as we practice spirituality more and more, as we grow in bhakti, then even the activities according to our nature, we do them, but with a greater proportion of goodness within them.
With a greater service attitude to serve and please Krishna and assist in his mission. So, it’s not so much the specific action that will change or the specific inclination that will change, but it’s the more of the intention and the more of performing that action that will change. So, even somebody might be of a Brahmanical nature, but in youth, that intellectuality may also be accompanied by a lot of passion.
I want to prove that I am right and they are wrong. I want to be the best scholar. But as we grow, then we grow in age, we grow in spiritual maturity.
You know, then we move from our intellectuality moves from trying to prove, goes from determining who is right to determining what is right. So, like that, we will usually work according to our subhava, but that action according to subhava will do with a greater element of goodness within us. And as it will be more peaceful, more spiritually conducive.
Now, some people feel inspired. Another thing is, I would say, because there has been there has been intermixing among the Varanas for many generations in the past. So, it’s not necessary that we have only one particular subhava.
Sometimes we may have some element of Brahmanical nature, some element of Kshatriya nature also. So whatever it is, the important thing is rather than trying to identify, trying to worry about whether I need to change my nature or not or whether I can change my nature or not. What we should focus on is how can I serve Krishna in a sustainable way.
So while doing whatever services we are told to do, we can be observing, you know, guna karma nubhagasha. Guna means quality, karma means activity. The way we can translate it in our experience is that when some services according to our nature, we feel internally comfortable doing that service and we are externally competent also doing it.
So inner competence, so inner comfort and external competence. If these two are there, then we can do that service for a long time. We will be happy doing it.
So rather than worrying too much about what is my nature, we can focus on while doing services, which are the services which I am comfortable and competent. And then we can focus on doing your services. That way we can move on sustainably in our bhakti.
Nancy, question? Thank you very much.