Mukesh Khanna On Never Shying Away From Confronting People: There Are Only Two Reasons Why People Stay...

Actor Mukesh Khanna, popularly known as Shaktimaan, has never been afraid to name names. It's something astrologer and psychic Geetu Parmar noted as he sat down with her for a podcast.

"Arnab (Goswami) once asked me this on his show, during the discussions about drugs and Sushant Singh Rajput. He said, Mukesh ji, you speak openly. Nobody else in the industry speaks. Even the Mahanayak doesn't speak."

"I told him that there are only two reasons why people stay silent. Either they are afraid that there is a skeleton hidden in their own cupboard which might come out one day, or it is commercial interest," he added.

He even confronted Ekta Kapoor. He shared, "I openly said to Ekta Kapoor, you have ruined Mahabharat. She had even put tattoos on the characters. People told me, sir, she won't give you work anymore. I replied, when has she ever given me work until now?"

The root of the silence is calculated self-interest. Mukesh said, "People remain silent because of selfishness. They think that someday they might need that person, and if they speak against them now, the relationship will be damaged."

For Mukesh, the math is different. He said, "I have never stretched out my hand asking for work. If someone doesn't want to give me work, then don't."

The conversation between Geetu and Mukesh turned deeply spiritual when they spoke about ego, the soul, and what it means to truly connect with God. Mukesh said, "Over the last thirty, forty, fifty years, I have definitely become much more spiritual. I have started reading good books. I now understand what the soul is. I am not Mukesh Khanna. I am the soul within."

He shared a moment that stopped a room. Mukesh said, "Recently I jokingly asked people, have you ever woken up in the morning and said, hello, soul, good morning? Everyone just stared at me. The soul has been with you since childhood, from the time you were just a tiny formation of cells. We greet everyone outside us, but has anyone ever greeted their own soul?"

That understanding is where his fearlessness comes from. Mukesh said, "You are nothing, Mr. Sikandar. You are the soul within. I too am the soul within. You are playing your role, and I am playing mine. So why should I fear you?"

Geetu connected this to a larger truth about devotion. She said, "Human beings are filled with I. I did this. I achieved that. And wherever there is ego, spirituality cannot exist."

Mukesh agreed, drawing from his own childhood reading of the Gita. Mukesh said, "As a child, I read Krishna saying, leave everything to Me. I am the one who has done everything. I remember thinking, why does He keep saying I, I, I? So, as a child, I simply skipped all eighteen chapters."

He understood the meaning much later. Mukesh said, "He was telling Arjuna, if you surrender everything to Me, your ego will disappear. He says, Arjuna, I have already done everything. I have already killed everyone. But I want you to perform your duty, so that tomorrow you do not raise your collar and say, I killed everyone. The Gita teaches that if you surrender everything to God, there is no ego left. And ego is the greatest enemy of a human being."