Realizing Wrong Habit

Akbar was quite disturbed and tensed about his son’s bad habit of sucking his own thumb. He tried a lot to cure this habit, but nothing worked. So he summoned a saint in his courtroom for help. After listening to the problem, the saint told that he would come after a few days with a solution and left. This behavior of the saint made Akbar very upset. 

After few days when the saint came back, he simply explained the boy about the consequences of his bad habit and the boy promised never to do it again. Akbar was furious that the saint could have done so last time itself and other courtiers also asked the king to punish the saint. Then Birbal jumped in and explained that since the saint himself had a bad habit of chewing tobacco, he couldn’t have asked the prince to quit his bad habit. But this time, the saint had come clean and he is able to preach confidently what he follows himself.