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Suffering And Right Living with Dharma
There is as Ancient Story full of wisdom which i narrate it to you One day a sadhu went to the river to bathe. In the river he noticed a scorpion struggling in the water for life. Scorpion cannot swim and the saint knew that if he did not save the scorpion, it would drown certainly.
He Therefore, carefully picking up the scorpion, the saint rescued it from drowning and was just about to set it down gently on land when the scorpion stung his finger. He was in pain, the saint instinctively flung his hand and the scorpion went flying, back into the river where he was. As soon as the saint regained his composure from the sting, he again lifted the scorpion out of the water. Again, before he could set the scorpion safely on land, the creature stung him. This episode went on for several minutes as the saint continued to trying to save the life of the poor drowning scorpion and the scorpion continued to sting his saviour's hand before reaching the freedom of the banks of river.
A hunter was seeing as the saint carefully brought the creature out of the water, only to fling it back in as he convulsed in pain from each fresh sting he got from the posionous scorpion. Finally, the hunter said to the saint, "Forgive me for my frankness sir, but that scorpion is simply going to continue to sting you each and every time you try to carry it to safety. So Why don't you give up and just let it drown?"
The saint replied: "My dear child, scorpion is not stinging me out of malice or evil intent. Just as it is the water's nature to make me wet, so it is the scorpion's nature to sting always. He doesn't realise that I am carrying him to safety for his welfare. That is a level of conscious comprehension greater than what his brain can achieve. But, just as it is the scorpion's nature to sting, so it is my nature to save helpless. Just as he is not leaving his nature, why should I leave my nature? My dharma is to help any creature of any kind – human or animal. Why should I let a scorpion rob me of the divine nature which I have cultivated through years of sadhana?"
Similarly In our lives we encounter many people who harm us, insult us, plot against us, whose actions seem calculated to thwart the successful achievement of our goals sometimes. So these are obvious acts, such as a co-worker who continually steals our ideas or speaks badly of us to our boss. Sometimes these acts are subtle – a friend, relative or colleague who unexpectedly betrays us or who we find has been surreptitiously speaking negatively about us behind our back.
Slowly we find that our own actions, words and thoughts become driven by anger and pain. they gave us. We find ourselves engaged in cunning thoughts of revenge or enemity. Before we realise it, we are injuring ourselves by allowing negative emotions dominate us and our psyche. They insulted us or plotted against us or sabotaged a well-deserved achievement at work. But we injure ourselves more deeply and more gravely by allowing our hearts and minds to darken by negative thoughts and behaviour.
Our dharma and right bevahiour is to be kind, pure, honest, giving, sharing and caring. selflessly. People, due to ignorance, lack of understanding or due to the way in which their own karmic drama is unfolding, may act with malice, deceit, selfishness and indifference. But we must take care that we should not let their actions or their ignorance deprive us of fulfilling our dharma or righteous living of helping others selflessly. We must not allow ourselves to be lowered by their ignorance, their habits or their greed. The darkness in their impure heart should not be allowed to penetrate into the lightness of our hearts.
We must live the life for serving others selflessly for their welfare uplifting them in every possible way.
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