The Brahmin

A Brahmin was having his bath in the river. Then he noticed a scorpion almost drowning. So he lifted the scorpion and put it on the ground. But before he could put it on the ground, the scorpion bit his hand. Many people were sitting around and some said to him, What have you achieved? You have spared him only to get yourself bitten. His answer was, I did what I had to do according to my nature. The scorpion did what it had to do according to its nature.

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