magic.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 famoaus 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