Nature & Nurture

Can one be far from the other? A snake can be nurtured to not bite, but shall it never return to it’s true nature which is to bite?

Yes it would, when pushed to a wall, when threatened and when the fight or fright response kicks in. But humans have trained even their flight or fight response, like a double edged sword. Centuries of conditional upbringing and societal orthodoxes impact our responses sub-conciously. Unawares, we tend to utilize our nurturings more often than the nature and often nurture becomes too comfortable to be our nature altogether.

This explains the late awakenings of many beings. Who in the journey of self-discovery wonder why didn’t the obvious response come to them by nature? The answer lies in what they were nurtured to believe in.