Can nature change?

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> > We speak of someone having a particular "nature". Anyone know of

> > anything Srila Prabhupada said or wrote to indicate that one's nature

> > can change?

>

> If one associates with bhaktas, then one's svabhava, or nature, will

> change. SB 10.13.53

>

> If one has the chance to live in the good association of devotees, one is

> able to cultivate knowledge, and naturally one's character or nature will

> change for one's eternal benefit.

> SB 10.13.53

>

> So in the animal life, it is not possible to change one's nature, which is

> given by the material energy, prakrti.

> Bhagavad-gita 2.7 -- London, August 7, 1973

 

 

Srila Prabhupada said a million times that any human being can improve

him/her self by Krishna conscious association.

 

Does this mean one's *material* mode of nature will change?

 

In the SB purport quoted above Srila Prabhupada instructed that those in

tamas and rajas should purify themselves by varnashram and come to the mode

of goodness. "(The man in the lower modes) should develop the brahminical

qualifications of being very neat and clean, risng early in the morning and

seeing mangala arati and so on."

 

Please contrast BG 3.35 purport, "When one is under the spell of the modes

of nature, one should follow the prescibed rules for his particular

situation and should not imitate others."

 

Any learned reader who can kindly clear my confusion with a conclusive quote

from Srila Prabhupada? Thanks in advance.

 

Your servant,

Yogindra dasa