K.Lal-the Charmer Magician

K.Lal.Magician. (1925- ).

Magic-rather Mesmerism or hypnotism.
Magic-rather mesmerism or hypnotism for fun, sport and entertainment.
That is Kanti-Lal’s magic shows running jam-packed with thousands of audience.
Audience turned up at the Education Ground, for renowned magician K Lal’s show.
I happened to be one of them. I sat glued to my seat for three hours enjoying the show.
There was more than enough to keep their eyes glued to the strong spectacle, with flying ladies in the sky, rabbits turning into girls and women being cut into two parts and put together again.

But the two items that set the show apart were ‘Water of India’ and the magician’s conversations with Gandhiji. ‘Water of India’ featured people from various states bringing empty jugs on stage. Lal would simply blow some air into the jugs and fill them with milk with patriotic songs playing in the background.

Gandhiji was the centre point of the show. In conversations with the magician, Bapu expressed his pain at the violence and mayhem in the country and then vanished off stage when assured that people would live in peace with each other.
Lal said, “I was perturbed by the atmosphere in Mumbai after Raj Thackeray’s anti-migrant statements. Gandhiji would be upset knowing his fellow countrymen are not living peacefully. So, I focused on his pain.”
After 67 years of performing in thousands of shows, the magician still has some unfulfilled desire. The 85-year-old magician’s wish list includes making the Taj Mahal and Kutub Minar disappear, if someone sponsors it, and flying in a theatre.

Lal says that regional governments must include magic as an art in all cultural programmes, as it is not vulgar and is fun for all.

“Despite writing several letters to regional governments in the past 20 years for developing a magic art academy, I have not received any response. Magic is fun.”
I have heard about Chhel Mohmmed who was well known for his psychic tricks
helping the needy and the poor. Magic and Mesmerism and Hypnotism are vast
subjects. Here my attempt is to narrate magic for fun and entertainment which is
done in public for public entertainment.
Magic is fairy tales like All ad-din. They are fairy tales. K.Lal shows are not fairy
tales. They are a reality. He is people’s magician. He elevated the art of magic
to such great heights that K.Lal came to be a house-hold name through out the country.
He redefined magic and made it free from ancient thugs and crooks who took
benefit in private of the helpless. Shame on them.
Arabic ALA AD-DIN is the hero of one of the stories in The Thousand and One Nights. The son of a deceased Chinese tailor and his poor widow, Aladdin is a lazy, careless boy. He meets an African magician claiming to be his uncle. The magician brings Aladdin to the mouth of a cave and bids him enter and bring out a wonderful lamp that is inside. Aladdin goes in and returns with the lamp but refuses to hand it over to the magician until he is safely out of the cave. The magician thereupon shuts him inside the cave with the lamp and departs.

Wringing his hands in dismay in the dark, Aladdin finds that he can summon up powerful jinn, or genies, by rubbing the ring. He returns home and soon finds that rubbing the lamp also produces genies. These supernatural spirits grant him his every wish, and Aladdin eventually becomes immensely wealthy, builds a wonderful jewel studded palace.
He marries the beautiful daughter of the sultan. After defeating the attempts of the frustrated African magician and his wicked younger brother to recover the lamp, Aladdin lives in long time marital happiness, succeeds the sultan, and reigns for many years, "leaving behind him a long line of kings."

One who practices magic, sometimes considered the same as a sorcerer or witch. Conjurers are also sometimes called magicians, reflecting a historical confusion whereby it was considered to involve the supernatural. The name derives from the magus, an ancient Persian priest, and the cognate maghdim, a Chaldean term meaning wisdom and philosophy. Though magic may theoretically be morally neutral, and many self-styled practitioners have claimed so, magicians have throughout European history usually been feared for their powers of wreaking evil.

In some societies, the magician is typically an accepted personage whose help may be sought to accomplish a goal or ward off evil.

A general point to be made is that the frequent tales of peoples living in fear of evil magicians and black magic are merely fanciful travelers' stories. Magic is normally regarded as an everyday aspect of religion used to explain certain kinds of events and to help bring about desired eventualities. Like most religious phenomena, magic may be regarded with some sense of awe and mystery, but this is more often a sign of the importance given to it than of fear or terror.

Typically people perform magical acts themselves or they go to a magician, an expert who knows how to observe the necessary ritual precautions and taboos, and who may be a professional consulted for a fee. Depending upon the beliefs of the particular culture, the skill may be transmitted by inheritance or bought from other magicians, or may be invented by the magician for himself.

Magicians may be consulted for nefarious purposes, to protect a client from the evil magic of others, or for purely benevolent reasons. It seems universal that magic is morally neutral, although the emphasis in any particular society may be on either its good or its evil use.

In some religions, especially those of small-scale illiterate societies, magic may be considered as important and even central to religious belief; whereas in others, especially in the main world religions, it may be unimportant, and often regarded as a mere superstition that is not acceptable to official dogma. It has often been maintained that magic is important in societies that possess a particular worldview or cosmology, in which a scientifically or empirically correct cause-effect relationship between human and natural phenomena is seen as a symbolic one.




Kanphata Yogis are distinguished by the large earrings they wear in the hollows of their ears (kan-phata, "ear split"). They are sometimes referred to as tantric, sannyasins, because of their emphasis on the acquiring of supernatural powers in contrast to more orthodox practices of devotion and meditation. They are followers of Gorakhnath, who is said to have lived in the 12th century or even earlier, and are also known by the name Gorakhnathis or Nathapanthis. The ideology of the Kanphata Yogis incorporates elements of mysticism, magic, and alchemy absorbed from both Shaivite, and Buddhist esoteric systems, as well as from HathaYoga.