Is it necessary to be good or bad? It depends on our own thinking. There are many types of people in the world. Some people are really very good, then some people are very bad. Of them, some are angry in nature while some people are very calm. In today’s time, there is a question in the mind of every human being that is necessary to be good or bad. Because who are of good nature get more pain, more trouble in today’s time. Is it true? If yes then why is it so? The readers can also read on Whether stress is good or bad for us? We will understand this thing better through a beautiful story.
The story of a Monk and a venomous snake- Is it necessary to be good or bad
One day a highly knowledgeable monk was going on a road. It was daytime and was very hot. After walking for a while, the monk got very tired. At the same place, there was a huge tree on the side of the road. When the monk sat under the tree, he felt very relaxed. After some time some people came and said to the monk, why are you sitting here, no one sits under this tree. Because a poisonous snake lives in this tree.
Whoever comes to rest under this tree, this snake bites them and those people die within a short time. That’s why you also should get up from here and leave. Otherwise, that snake will bite you too. Hearing this, the monk smiled a little and said thank you, so many people for telling him about the snake. Then the people left. After some time the snake came and said to the monk, don’t you know that no one sits under this tree. Because if someone sits then I will bite and the person will die within some time. So if you do not get out of here now I will bite you and you would not survive. If you love your life then get out of here.
Hearing this, the monk replied to the poisonous snake that if you want to bite me, you can. But before you bite, listen to me one thing. You have committed some such misdeed in your previous life, due to which you were born as a poisonous snake in this life. And you’re doing the same misdeed in this life also. you are killing innocent people unnecessarily, you are troubling them. It may be because of the misdeeds that you will be born as a poisonous snake in the next life also. Do not you want to be free from this snake birth.
If you will do some good deeds in this life, then maybe God will give you some good birth in the next life. After listening to this talk of the monk the snake says “I am frustrated by this snake birth. If by mistake I ever come in front of people, people will kill me. What kind of birth is this which always has to hide’. Again the snake said to the monk, I will not do this misdeed. Now I will not disturb people, I will not bite people. I will live well and pray to God that if possible I will get freedom from snake birth in the next life. Then the monk left after taking a rest for some time.
Even the good has also a limit
After some days the monk went on the same path. Then the monk saw that the poison snake was lying under that tree after suffering a lot of injuries. Then the monk went to the snake and asked who did such a condition to you? Who hit you so much and why? Then the snake replied that as long as I was biting people unnecessarily, the people were afraid of me and used to stay away from me. But ever since I stopped scaring people, I stopped biting people, people are scaring me, troubling me unnecessarily. And today see how much people have hurt me unnecessarily. I do not know maybe after some time I will die too.
Then the monk said to the snake, you are an evil snake I told you to be good, do not bother anyone unnecessarily, do not bite anyone unnecessarily. But I never told you to become weak and unnecessarily anyone should come and attack you and you do not protect yourself. When people were unnecessarily harassing you, then you should not be weak, then you did not have to remain silent. You should have protected yourself, you must answer them.
After saying this, the monk applied medicine to the place where the snake was an injury in the body. And then the monk left from there. After a few days, the snake was cured. Then the snake left that tree and went inside the forest.
Be as good as it is needed because too much spoils everything
That’s why be as good as it is needed because too many spoils everything. Being good as well as being tough is very important. Everyone wants the best in their surrounding. Whether it is a good person or an animal or even wants the best from the environment. But before wanting everything good, it is very important to be better yourself. We will all be good people. We will not disturb anyone unnecessarily, we would not make fun of anyone. But if someone does bad things to us or takes advantage of us. Then we will definitely answer back to them. That time we will not be weak, while we will become stronger.
It is also very important to be tough to live in today’s society. Remember a good person is not always silent and not every rude person is bad. If we understand the person, then only we will be able to handle every relationship very well.
