Stories of Birbal
Milk for the Mulla
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One day the Mullaa Nasruddin was going
somewhere. He met a man carrying a milk can. The man said to Mullaa, "Mullaa
Jee, I have some problem, I want your advice." "Why not, what is that
problem?" said the Mullaa eyeing on his milk can.
The man said, "Whenever I get up in the
morning, I feel intoxicated. I don't know what to do, and I don't understand
what may be the problem." Mullaa asked, "What do you take in the last
before you sleep?" The man said, "Normally I drink milk."
The Mullaa said, "Now I understood, this
is your problem." "What is that?" asked the man perplexedly. The
Mullaa said to him, "Because milk causes the intoxication."
"How?" asked the man innocently. Mullaa explained to him, "You
drink milk before sleeping. In sleep, you toss around. So milk gets churned. It
turns into butter, butter gets churned, it turns into fat. Fat gets churned, it
turns into sugar. Then sugar gets churned, and it turns into alcohol. So when
you wake up in the morning you wake up with alcohol in your stomach, that is why
you feel intoxicated."
"So what do I do?" asked the man in
simplicity. Mullaa said, "It is so simple. Don't drink milk. Here, Give it
to me." Mullaa virtually snatched the milk can from the man and went on his
way. The poor man stood there bewildered. He went to Birbal and got his milk
back somehow.
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