If a snake is eating a frog in front of me, what should I do? I always wondered what should I do according to buddhism in a situation like that. Obviously I have two options.


Hit the snake and save the frogs' life.
Just keep watching without doing anything.


Can someone explain this
Don't hit snake, but better we understand it's the nature. We cannot get snakes to eat non-veg. We can't change the nature of the world.

Animal world is described as one of 4 hells in Buddhism. Their Karma stance causes them to born in different worlds. The most eligible karma they have done in their sansara (chain of lives birth, live, die) will bring their life events to them.

Also If we kill the snake, we get it on our Karma account. Karma is like a chain which keep our lives continuing through sansara.

Please refer http://justbegood.net/MoreQuestions.htm for better understanding of Karma and their consequences.