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vessel was held in my hands and nothing happened to me!
His magic was failing. He was angry. He got excited and asked : "Do you chant any Mantra? Do you know magic?"
I replied : "I know no magic, I possess no Mantra or Tantra."
People dispersed laughing. The charmer asked me again and again, in a tone of request : "Well! Please tell the truth. Do you know any magic? Otherwise, my failure is not possible. Never had such a failure come in my life.”
Then it was that I talked to him of the Navakara Mantra :
"Really, I know nothing else. Yet, this is our miraculous Mantra!"
Shri Lalchandbhai narrated this fact. But I felt : "Who will explain to that charmer that this Navakara is, in reality, a magic over magic? Only Navakara can do it. The Navakara is, indeed, a Divine Magician.”
Unique is the Magic of Navakara This is the case of a noble Shravak who gave to us an inkling into the Puniya Shravak in this Kaliyuga. Some years back, the Navakara created this magic in his life.
He had cultivated a regular habit of chanting one full Mala of Navakara. He would, without fail, chant the Mantra 108 times before going to sleep. He would not get sleep otherwise.
Once he happened to go to an adjoining village and was returning on completion of his work. It was night on
