The Genie

Once there lived a very a wealthy man with many farms and businesses all over the world.

He was also a devotee of a yogi who lived in his city. No matter how busy he was, he would visit the yogi at least once a day. The yogi was quite pleased with him and one day told him, "Ask for anything and you shall receive it."

The wealthy man thought awhile and said, "I have too much work and not enough good workers. I want a servant who will do things at very fast speed."

The yogi said, "There is a genie I have under my control who could be of service to you. The only problem with it is that it has a condition attached to his service."

The wealthy man said, "And what might that be?"

The yogi answered, "The genie is alright as long you have work for it, but as soon as it is free, it will eat you up!"

The wealthy man laughed at that and said, "Oh, no problem with that, I have plenty of work for it."

The yogi warned him again. Once again the man laughed it off. So the yogi gave him the bottle the genie lived in. As soon as he got home, the wealthy man eagerly broke open the bottle. A big genie appeared and said just one thing, "Work!"

The man told him to till his land. The genie disappeared and re-appeared in a few minutes!

"Work!" he demanded. This greatly surprised the man. He took a look outside his window and sure enough, all his land had been tilled. He said, "Now sow all the seed into it."

Once again the genie disappeared and re-appeared in a few minutes and demanded, "Work!"

The man remembered the yogi's warning and had to think quite hard to come up with work for the genie. He told the genie to feed all his animals. Once again the genie disappeared and re-appeared in a few minutes and demanded, "Work!"

Now the man started sweating. Surely he would be eaten soon because he didn't have much more work for this genie.

With panic, he thought hard and told the genie to deliver all his mail personally around the globe. The genie disappeared and the man quickly ran to the yogi shouting, "Save me! Save me!"

The yogi laughed and reminded him of the warning. The man told the yogi, "You were right, yogi jee, you were right! Now save me! For surely I am doomed!"

The yogi said, "This is what you should do. As soon as the genie returns, ask him to build a pole outside."

The man interrupted, "But he will do that in 2 seconds - you don't know that genie, please think of something else. Please save me.."

The yogi said, "NOW CALM DONE AND LISTEN! ... After the genie has built the pole, tell it to climb the pole. Once it is up, it should climb down. Then it should climb up again. And it should continue this until you have some other job for it. After which it should start climbing and descending the pole again."

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