Bapuji the Guru

Eternal teacher: The world still learns from this simple man's lessons...

Bapuji’s life has shown us how successfully virtuous ideals could be adopted in one’s own life.

Even today, the world considers his name as the final word for ultimate peace and nonviolence.

No other apostle on this world could stand boldly for the cause of peace as Gandhiji did. He promulgated the mantras of peace, truth, nonviolence and social harmony and practiced them, too. The world today is thus prompted to observe his birthday every 2nd of October as the International Day of Nonviolence.

Peace is one of the precious things that the world today longs very much to have. Even perpetrators of terrorism do all the heinous for just one thing: to achieve what they stand for and reach ultimate peace.

The terrorists – mainly the youth who are miserably misled – are led by the wrong notion that a bomb blast and bloodshed will bring in what they desire. But they forget that whatever earned through violence is not going to survive. Violent manifestations can earn only ephemeral achievements. Solutions to be stable and sustainable, should be earned through peaceful means.

Challenges are part of human life. Trials and tribulations of life should not turn our actions incoherent or prompt violence. To forgive is not the quality of the weak, but the trait of the bold, Mahatmaji reminds.

Gandhian texts say, ‘Peace is its own reward’. We know, the freedom we enjoy today is also a reward of peaceful struggles. Mission India is hence the Magic Academy’s humble tribute before the Mahatma, who liberated a Nation to eternal freedom through exceptional commitment to peace and nonviolence.

[Editorial of September issue of the Vismayam Magical News]

The magic of Mahatma

When secrets drain away...

[Editorial appeared on September 2009 issue of Vismayam Magical News]

It won’t be wrong if one says that man is clever and among them magicians are cleverer. To be clever is a professional need for magical artistes. Many of their tricks are based on aspects of science and technology. And these aspects, ever since their evolution on this planet have been growing year after year. Today, it is such that the technology behind magic tricks gets even hourly advancements.

A good magician needs to be techno savvy. But this qualification should not make him weird and segregate him from artistes of other trades. Artistes of other faculties do not usually embrace the technology to the extent as magicians do.

It has been a common say that magicians fool their audiences. This is for sure, a wrong notion. Fact is different.

In front of a magician, every spectator is wiser. If to lend and a little bend Mahatma’s words that customer is the King; for magicians spectator is their King. Genuine appreciation always comes from the wise and so a magician usually tends to describe his audiences as the wisest.

Today’s world offers trick behind any magic at a single click. Facts behind many illusions are being piped to living rooms even if viewers do not wish so.

In this context, to be successful, a magician should have not only update technology, but also tremendous quantities of enthusiasm.

When secrets are no more secrets, we have these words of the Mahatma to remember: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides, and my windows to be closed. Instead, I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”.

Yes. Let us gather synergy to transform big challenges into biggest achievements.