Quotes from BBPG

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THE CRIPPLED MAN AND THE PROSTITUTE

 

Once upon a time, there lived a crippled man. This man was married, but he

was attracted to the prostitute that lived in the house opposite. One day

his wife saw him looking very morose. "What's wrong, my dear husband?" she

inquired. "Even though I am married to you," he replied, "I am attracted to

the prostitute. I am asking you to make an arrangement for me." So being a

very chaste and obedient wife, she wished to fulfil her husband's desire,

and she began going to the prostitute's house when no-one was home, and

clean there. After a while this prostitute noticed, "Someone is cleaning my

house. I am not asking anyone to do this, so I wonder who it could be?" So

one day the prostitute stayed back, and after some time the crippled man's

wife came and began cleaning. The prostitute approached her and said, "Why

are you doing this?" She replied, "My husband is very attracted to you, and

he wants to meet with you, but we are very poor, and cannot afford to pay.

So instead I am offering some service. The prostitute said, "Very well,

send him over tonight." That night the prostitute prepared a sumptuous

feast of rice, dal, sabji etc, and she served a portion of each of these

preparations onto two plates, one gold and one silver. When the man

arrived, she requested him to partake of the food she had prepared him.

"Please take from the silver plate.," she told him. After he had finished

all the food on the silver plate, the prostitute told him to take from the

gold plate. When he had finished, the prostitute inquired from the man,

"Now, did you taste the difference?" Surprised, the man replied, "What

difference? These are exactly the same preparations, only served on

different plates. You must be crazy!" "No, you are the crazy one!" the

prostitute returned. "You are thinking that there is more enjoyment in my

body than there is in your wife's body, but actually the ingredients are the

same. Only the covering is different."