Nature brings
us many varieties in everything. This world would have been a boring place if
everyone and everything behaved righteously and tread the path of wisdom. As
the presence of antagonist highlights the role of protagonist in a play, we
realize the nature of true enlightened ones when there are cruel people around.
Being cruel is
to knowingly inflicting agony and discomfort to others and having no concern
regarding their suffering. The severity increases when the cruel person
performs the wicked acts on others who have helped him earlier.
Generally, a
snake is depicted to be cruel in nature. Even if food is offered to this animal
it doesn’t care to remember the succor it received. It does not show gratitude
and instead would not hesitate to bite & poison the same source which
offered it food.
A subhashita underlines this:
By drawing a reference to the behavior of snake, it
provides a glimpse of what to expect from a wicked person. It goes even further
to indicate that at least a snake can be controlled by skilled persons to avoid
the harm the snake would cause. However it rues that there are no such
techniques to stop a cruel man from committing his non-virtuous actions.
It is an easy task to acknowledge for anyone who becomes
acquainted with such persons of inhuman nature.
The best thing to do on such occasions is to maintain a distance from
them and pray that they gain the knowledge of ethical and moral path.
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