जिन्‍न की कहानी

The story of Genie
(Arabian Mythological Story)

Once upon a time, there lived a Brahmin with his wife. This Brahmin was an expert in Vedas and Shastras (Scriptures). As only Brahmin and his wife used to live in the house, all the burden of the household work was on Brahmin’s wife. Some days later, Brahmin’s wife started getting tired and got fed up because of the burden of work. She started thinking some remedy for this. She went to her husband and said to him, “My dear, you are an expert in all the scriptures. Why don’t you perform some yagna to create such a person who can be helpful to me in the household work? If we keep a servant in the house, we will have to be behind him all the time to get the work done. If we create someone ourselves, it will be better because then he will be with us all the time and carry out all the instructions obediently as he will be our creation”. The Brahmin who understood his wife’s problem decided to do something.
He started searching all the old papers/ manuscripts he had in his house. Suddenly he could lay hand to a paper containing the process of creating a genie by conducting the yagna . The Brahmin became very happy and started conducting the yagna. After a few days, a genie appeared before him out of the fire of the yagna. As this genie was created especially for doing work, it was called as Work genie. Genie saluted the Brahmin and his wife and said, “From now onwards you are my masters. I will follow all your orders. But I have one condition for you. As Work genie, you will have to keep me engaged all the time with some work or the other. In case you fail to give me work, even for a second, I will eat you”. There is so much of work to do in our house. So, giving him some or the other work should not be a problem. Thinking so, Brahmin accepted genie’s condition.
From that moment, genie was doing all the household work. Genie was able to do every work within seconds. Brahmin and his wife felt incredibly happy. But this happiness did not last long. Work genie would complete his work within seconds and come back to Brahmin saying I want work, I want work.
Brahmin ordered the genie to clean all the large metallic vessels, which he thought would take at least one day for the genie to complete and till then he could be free from him. But work genie completed this work within seconds and came to the Brahmin saying I want work, I want work. Brahmin was so surprised and tensed. Now what to do? Brahmin ordered him to clean all his house which was very big. Dusting, sweeping, and cleaning – everything was completed within seconds and genie again came to the Brahmin saying I want work, I want work. This time Brahmin gave him some large pots which had holes and ordered the genie to fill them with water from the well. Brahmin knew that genie would definitely complete this work too within seconds and was thinking for the permanent remedy for this problem. Meanwhile, genie came to the Brahmin saying I want work, I want work. The clever Brahmin showed the steps of his house to the genie and ordered him to keep going up and down the stairs till he was called back for some other work. This work was endless. Genie continued to do this work. Brahmin used to call genie whenever his help was needed for some other work, after completion of which, he would again order the genie to start the endless work of going up and down the stairs. So, the Brahmin tactfully made the genie busy and also became free himself.

Spiritual significance: – Maya is like a genie. A Rajyogi should remain busy all the time in making attainments with the help of Baba’s knowledge and remembrance. Otherwise, Maya genie will eat away the Rajyogi. So, Baba gives us the work, “Children, keep remembering me and the inheritance continuously”. Like genies, Brahma Kumars and Kumais should keep on moving on Godly path tirelessly.