 | Then the next story is called “Every man is too attached”. It’s a funny story. The great emperor Agbar was touring through his kingdom with his minister Birbal. In one place they saw husband and wife arguing. At one point the wife, who is a very small lady, she slapped her husband’s face, who is very big bodied. And the husband just tolerated it while the wife began to shout all kinds of chastisements at him and he was just listening with his head down. Agbar turned to his minister and said: “Why does he just stand there and take such abuse from his wife?” And Birbal replied: “That is because these men in your kingdom, they are just too much attached to their wives. They’re very week.” Agbar said: “I don’t believe it.” And Birbal replied: “Yes, it’s true and I can prove it. You just let me call for all the married men in the whole country, have them gathered at one place and then we will see.” So all the married men came to one big open area and Birbal the king was standing by and Birbal addressed them: “My dear fellows, the great emperor Agbar wants to know how many of you follow the commands of your wives. All those who obey their wives instructions should now move to that side of the field.” So immediately there was a huge exodus of men, they all went to the other side of the field. There was only one man left standing on this side. And Agbar was very happy, he felt very relieved. He said: “At least there is one man who does not obey his wife like a fool.” Then Birbal asked that man: “When I called for all those others who obey the command of their wife to go to that side of the field, why did you not move?” The man replied: “Because my wife told me to stay away from crowds.”
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