Does this description fit you?

Submitted by mala on Thu, 2006-09-07 09:58. spiritual growth

What is your nature?

Ask this question to anybody and you can fill up quite a lot of papers with their answers.

See which one of them below, seem to fit you.
I am always a moody person.
By nature I am skeptic.
I am a cheerful person by nature.
I am short tempered.
I can’t tolerate loud mouthed persons.
I am a chronic sadist.
I am a lover of nature.
I easily trust anyone.

Am I entering familiar grounds? (smile)
So are you sure about your nature? Over the years have you not changed a bit? I mean did you notice that what bothered you once does not do so anymore?

But you were not born with these qualities! All these you acquired as you grew, due to your living conditions, education, religious beliefs and friends and relatives.

What is the nature of earth? It gives life. You plant a seed or sapling, water it for a few weeks and watch with amazement as it sprouts to life. Now who gave life to it? The earth. Irrespective of the conditions and seasons of the world, it will continue to give life-because it is it’s nature.

It does not refuse, it does not retort, will silently bear all rains and sunshine, but retain its nature.

So we were, when we were born. We held all the spiritual qualities when we were children. As time passed by, we severe our spiritual connections, attain human status and enrobe ourselves with all sorts of inhuman qualities that we call nature.

Whether a giant oak sprouts out or a tiny and feeble grass, it is immaterial to Earth. It does not take pride to show its’ nature.