Black magic

I think we end up having most interesting conversations almost un-intentionally. An afternoon coffee gibberish with your colleagues can at times actually turned out to be a very thought provocative (naah… not about work-issues!). And I just lived up to one such conversation recently.

A colleague of mine was talking about some magician (David Copperfield he was I think), and was explaining me how amusing his magic is. I was very obstinate that no magic can impress me because it is all slight of hand or hypnotism after all! The argument just dragged along and somehow we ended up talking about this show on TV, in which a Black-magician was challenged by the host, to show his skills on the host himself! To such an extent, that Host was even ready to get himself killed if magician succeeded. Needless (is it really? I wonder) to say, host won! The poor magician couldn’t perform at all. Now that disturbed me a little. I felt sympathetic towards the Black-magician!

Did you notice the irony! I wasn’t buying into the mundane magic but I was little upset (?) to see black magic fail. After pondering over it for long I found one word staring right at me, in my face, ‘Faith’!

I think it has got all to do with ‘Faith’. In the black magic there is involvement of God, in whom I don’t only trust, but I have Faith in Him! Because of that, I know anyone who calls for him sincerely, He will answer to him. There is no breach in that contract. It’s very hard where to draw line between your faith and superstition (, and I certainly don’t want to address that here because I know for a fact that I will not be able to do that at all). But if we don’t confuse faith with superstition, then Faith is a necessary ingredient of your life. You have Faith in your body and so you know that you will live for tomorrow. You have Faith in your family and so you try to provide for them. You have Faith in your religion and so you try to follow the customs! Isn’t it amazing how Faith works!? You never get any doubts about what you have Faith in. You always know if something failed; then that must be you or your efforts or your intentions, but you don’t doubt your Faith.

5 letter word and that can turn your beliefs upside down. Being a firm believer in God, I somehow ended up having faith even in black-magic, OR to be precise I had faith in ‘the faith black-magician had put in his God’. Deep down somewhere I thought, if He can answer my wishes, why not his! If He fails the magician, He will fail me too!

So it boils down to; I wasn’t upset because the black-magic did not work; I got upset because his Faith was not answered. I realize that his intentions were wrong and so I am not terribly sorry for the magician, but I believe that, were his intentions have been right and constructive, may be we could have seen some White-magic!