Magic Is An Amazing Art

It is often said that if you have a strong attachment to something or pursue a path single-mindely, you will certainely get it or succeed. It is true in the case of Jadugar Anand, the world famous magician known for his speedy tricks and proud winner of three international records.
Anand says magic is a pleasing and amazing art and an exhibition of practised skills, where the laws of nature are seemingly set aside for innocent entertainment. But he maintains that his magic is no hypnotism as group hypnotism or mass hypnotism is not possible.
He enlightens that it is only an illusion created to cheat your eyes an in illlusion it is the eye which see a thing and conveys the message to the brain whereas in hypnotism it is the brain which dictates the eyes to see it in the way it interprets.
Anand uses hypnotism only when he calls a teenage girl or a boy or a child on stage to perform a trick on her/him. Having perfromed magic shows on over 26,000 stages across 36 countries, Anand, in a soft tone, remembers his days when his parents almost killed him for showing interest in magic and for deciding to take it as a profession.
But Anand's love for the profession was so profound that he started practising magic watching jugglers on the road-side and reading books related to the subject.
Today's he has mastered what he calls an art so well that he has incorporated new techniques like laser lights and new mind-bogging tricks to his performances.Anand attributes his success to the practice and hardship he faced before emerging as a popular magician.
'No skill can be obtained without practice and determination and this applies to any field' says Anand. He further says he has been assigned a specific role and he is acting it absolutely and perfectly in decent and advanced manner.
Replying to a question on why people still not accept magic as a decent profession, he said: 'I'm here just for that, to promote magic as an art. It is the social status, security, and uncertainly of income that create a sense of fear thereby downsizing
the field of magic. This could be changed only by establishing magic as an art form and establishing an academy for magic is all the provincial capitals of the States'.
Apart from magic, anand involves himself totally in spirituality- meditation, samadhi, thapam, and dhyanam. Anand also shows keen interest in human psychology.
'I also do face reading and could easily identify a problem in a person and try to counsel him to rectify his problems.' But he backtracks himself in the case of women saying that they are impossible to understand. He also quotes a sanskrit saying in support of his verdict.
Anand quotes mother Aurobindo's saying as a message to the people in Chennai: ' whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to find divine in man.'
It is often said that if you have a strong attachment to something or pursue a path single-mindely, you will certainely get it or succeed. It is true in the case of Jadugar Anand, the world famous magician known for his speedy tricks and proud winner of three international records.
Anand says magic is a pleasing and amazing art and an exhibition of practised skills, where the laws of nature are seemingly set aside for innocent entertainment. But he maintains that his magic is no hypnotism as group hypnotism or mass hypnotism is not possible.
He enlightens that it is only an illusion created to cheat your eyes an in illlusion it is the eye which see a thing and conveys the message to the brain whereas in hypnotism it is the brain which dictates the eyes to see it in the way it interprets.
Anand uses hypnotism only when he calls a teenage girl or a boy or a child on stage to perform a trick on her/him. Having perfromed magic shows on over 26,000 stages across 36 countries, Anand, in a soft tone, remembers his days when his parents almost killed him for showing interest in magic and for deciding to take it as a profession.
But Anand's love for the profession was so profound that he started practising magic watching jugglers on the road-side and reading books related to the subject.
Today's he has mastered what he calls an art so well that he has incorporated new techniques like laser lights and new mind-bogging tricks to his performances.Anand attributes his success to the practice and hardship he faced before emerging as a popular magician.
'No skill can be obtained without practice and determination and this applies to any field' says Anand. He further says he has been assigned a specific role and he is acting it absolutely and perfectly in decent and advanced manner.
Replying to a question on why people still not accept magic as a decent profession, he said: 'I'm here just for that, to promote magic as an art. It is the social status, security, and uncertainly of income that create a sense of fear thereby downsizing
the field of magic. This could be changed only by establishing magic as an art form and establishing an academy for magic is all the provincial capitals of the States'.
Apart from magic, anand involves himself totally in spirituality- meditation, samadhi, thapam, and dhyanam. Anand also shows keen interest in human psychology.
'I also do face reading and could easily identify a problem in a person and try to counsel him to rectify his problems.' But he backtracks himself in the case of women saying that they are impossible to understand. He also quotes a sanskrit saying in support of his verdict.
Anand quotes mother Aurobindo's saying as a message to the people in Chennai: ' whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to find divine in man.'