When God doesn’t conjure tricks can he be considered a magician?

From Dipin Preet Singh Bhangoo

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question question from Dipen Prith Singh Bhangru when God doesn’t conjure up tricks can he be considered to be a magician answer a magician what exactly is magic when is it simply conjuring up tricks actually magician simply means that when somebody does something which is not explainable or doable by normal means that is what we call as magic so somebody might say take a hat and suddenly a rabbit comes out of the hat normally rabbits don’t come out of the hats so we consider a person who brings a rabbit out of hat magician because that person seems to be able to do something which others are not able to do now magic can be false or genuine false means that that person is simply doing some slay of hand some jugglery so misdirection of attention and whatever way actually somebody is not doing anything extraordinary but just by appearing as if it is something magical so things are happening only normally but our attention is misdirected and a misconception is created that something extraordinary something magical is happening that is one kind of magic the other is that some people have some mystic powers so somebody doesn’t just you know there is already it’s not that there is somehow a rabbit already there in the hat and it’s been pulled out but we don’t notice that the rabbit is there but the other is there are mystic siddhis by which one of the siddhis is prapti siddhi so by which one can actually obtain objects from elsewhere now that how does that happen that is there are multiple dimensions to the universe and just as ant which travels in two dimensions across the ground and then say upper wall to go across diagonally from one end of room to another that ant will take much more distance but if the ant could go diagonally say there is a pole from the wall from the left bottom of the room to the right top of the room then the ant could be able to go much faster so just as when we have go from two dimensions to three dimensions the distance can decrease similarly the distance can decrease when one has access to higher dimensions so by prapti siddhi somebody can get something which is far away so now is prapti siddhi magic at one level because modern science cannot explain it so it could be called magic but actually there is a order behind that also there is a order behind how krishna how that yogi or that particular magician is able to do that now most magicians today don’t have magic siddhis even most godmen who claim to do this siddhis they are also doing mostly jugglery of hands or something like that but even if somebody has mystic siddhis which can be called as magic in general parlance there is a explanation for that in terms of the subtle laws so when we say some magic is simply is magic conjuring of tricks yes at one level if it is just misdirection of vision as is done by common magicians another is it conjuring of tricks mystic siddhis by those who have mystic siddhis not exactly they have done austerities they have powers but yes there is no magic there in the sense that there is a explanation for it so now the question comes up when we say god is god a magician what are we trying to say the context of the discussion is in contrast to is god a scientist that means does god do things which have no rational order to them which have no rational explanation which are completely arbitrary so the idea is atheists often say that if you accept god and god is a magician then that god is incompatible with science say atheists also when they say even religious believers when they drink water you pour a glass turn a glass upside down you expect the water to fall into the mouth that means we all assume that there is order in the universe even religionists assume there is order so then why should we behave and believe in a god who does arbitrary disorderly things which are like what a magician does so the point is that yes god god has created the order in this world and god normally he ensures the things happen according to order but there are times when god may violate that order for the sake of some other purpose ultimately the order in the universe is also to enable people to rise to to recognize god to harmonize with god and then ultimately to realize god so now the purpose of Krishna coming and doing some miraculous things such as lifting Govardhan hill or manifesting in thousands of forms to be with each gopi while they are dancing in Ras Neela all these are Krishna covering the moon when he wanted to ensure that Arjuna reach Jayadratha these are what might seem as magical actions now magical actions in the sense that they are not possible for ordinary people and that’s why some people may say that these are impossible and they are like magical but now is Krishna magician in the sense that he is a conjurer of tricks so now certainly the word maya at one level means illusion and if you are talking about conjuring of tricks maya itself is an illusion and maya is Krishna’s energy so surely the word as magician and akin to that maya maya these words are frequently used in scripture to refer to Krishna mayadheesh is the lord of maya so he created maya by which Brahma got bewildered and then we had the Brahma Vimohan Leela so what was the maya there Brahma saw that there are two sets of cowherd boys and then all the cowherd boys change into Vishnu so he was confused what is happening so now here when we say Krishna is a magician we mean that Krishna can do things for which we don’t have any explanation so Brahmaji he is the creator of the world and he knows there is order in the world and suddenly he knows that there can’t be two sets of cowherd boys there can’t be two sets of cows so he is bewildered so magic means when the normal orderliness of the universe the normal orderliness with which things happen when that orderliness is suspended and something extraordinary arbitrary inexplicable happens then that is often called as a magical display so Krishna is a supreme magician and Krishna he can because he is omnipotent he can do anything and everything so so that way is there a rational explanation for Krishna being a magician yes the rational explanation is omnipotence he is omnipotent he is supreme he can do anything so that itself is an explanation but that explanation often people especially people who do not understand God’s supreme position find it difficult to accept and therefore they say that okay God may exist but even he is under the laws of nature and as soon as God it is described in scripture that God starts doing something miraculous then they say that oh this is this is a mythology this is not real but Krishna is real and he is a magician in the sense that he can do things for which we have no explanation apart from his omnipotence Albert Einstein said that now he is the greatest scientist and he said there are two ways of living life one is to see everything as a miracle and the other is to see nothing as a miracle so to see everything as a miracle means now he is a scientist does he believe in miracles but he is saying that even what we see in nature what we could attribute to science but even that ultimately is astonishing and in that sense we do see Krishna as the supreme magician in the sense that he has manifested this extraordinary deeply intriguing universe whose order is also intriguing and how that order has come out is also intriguing and when Krishna suspend that order that is also intriguing that is also fascinating so in this way Krishna is a magician in the sense that he has manifested so many wonderful things some of which we are able to understand some of which we are not able to understand and whatever we are able to understand Krishna can do things which are beyond our understanding also and in that sense he is the supreme magician and becoming charmed by his magic is the supreme perfection of life Hare Krishna