Who should be blamed?

Once there lived a charitable king who used to feed the brahmanas
sumptuously. On one of the occasions, when prasadam was being served to the
brahmanas in the courtyard of the king's palace, an eagle flew over that
area. The eagle was holding its prey, a poisonous snake in it's beak. The
snake unable to bear the tight grip of the eagle was spitting poison out of
its mouth and accidentally a drop of poison fell in the plate of one of the
brahmana. When the brahmana ate that food, he died. The king became very
unhappy and regretted very much for this mishap.

In Yamaloka, Yamaraj and his servants while taking account of the sinful
reactions, were wondering whom to assign the reaction for the killing of
this brahmana. Is it the mistake of king, the eagle or the snake? None of
them had the intention of killing the brahmana. While they Yamadutas were
trying to find a way for this, there was another group of brahmanas who
were passing through that kingdom, wanting to meet the king. They met a
woman on the way and requested her to show them the directions of the
king's palace. After giving them the directions the woman said, "*There
lives the king who is famous for killing the brahmanas*." As soon as she
uttered this statement, Yamaraj decided to assign the sinful reaction of
killing the brahmana to this lady. Such is the intricacies of dharma. The
king was innocent and he just wanted to do charity to the brahmanas. The
eagle was busy catching his prey and did not intend to hurt the brahmana.
The snake also had spit the poison out of pain and did not have intentions
to kill the brahmana. But since the lady not caring to know the real
situation, simply accused the king to be a killer of the brahmanas, she had
to take the reaction for killing the brahmana.

So if we are unable to appreciate the service done by others, we should at
least refrain from fault-finding, blaming, accusing or passing unnecessary
comments about their service. Our life is too short for all these petty
things and for our own good it is better for us to judiciously use our time in improving our-selves.