A Monk & The Scorpion - Short Inspirational Story

Once upon a time, two monks were washing their feet on the bank of a river. One of the monks suddenly saw a drowning scorpion.

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The monk gently grabbed the scorpion and pulled the scorpion out of the water. But in order to save the scorpion...

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that scorpion stung the monk in his hand. After a while the second monk saw the Scorpion & said to the fist monk

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'Hey look the foolish Scorpion is again came to water & again drowning.'

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The first monk again saved the scorpion but the scorpion again stung him.

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The second monk said to him, 'This scorpion stung you again, yet you saved it..!'

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The monk replied, 'Because the nature of the scorpion is to 'STUNG' & the nature of mine is to 'SAVE'.

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Lesson of this story- Never change yourself just because of the sake of others. If you are good then always be good,

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never ever get influenced with bad people & never adapt their bad behavior. You can only save your soul by just being you. Always be good.

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