Shaktimaan

Shaktimaan is a superhero of Indian origin. He is the culmination of 12 years of intense Yoga practice done by Gangadhar under the guidance of 7 Suryanshi gurus in a school in the Himalayas. He was born as the son of Major Ranjit Singh and his wife Dr. Kaushalya Devi but was raised by Pandit Vidhyadhar Shastri and Arundhati Devi and later by the Suryanshi sages of the Himalayas. Although he is not a true Suryanshi, but his characteristics are that of a Suryanshi. Shaktimaan is also an idol of kids till date and also an idol of some elders and old people alike. He was last seen somewhere in the 2010s. His current whereabouts are unknown of 2020.

Biography
Shaktimaan is the reincarnation of a warrior and sage named Sri Satya who lived 6000 years ago. He was born in a cave on top of Himtung Peak near Karadunga jungle. He was brought there because according to certain predictions his birth was supposed to take place at a particular time at Himtung Peak. Only then he can become the warrior of truth as per Sri Satya who predicted his own rebirth. However, Kilvish gets to know when and who is going to give birth to Ranjit‘s son(later known as Shaktimaan when in superhero costume/Pandit Gangadhar Shastri).

Soon after Shaktimaan's birth Major Ranjit Singh was arrested by two army officers on charges of sedition but they didn't take him. Instead they stabbed him with his divine sword and takes Kaushalya and baby Shaktimaan to the helicopter. But Major Singh manages to run and jump into the chopper in time. It was then revealed that the two army officers were actually demons sent by Tamraj Kilvish to kill the boy. After a successful fight with them Major Ranjit Singh tries to take control of the helicopter. Tamraj Kilvish suddenly sends a ray of fire towards the chopper and makes its engines fail.

Major Ranjit Singh understood that the helicopter is going to explode. He takes the baby from Kaushalya and places the sword in the wrapping of the baby and says that the sword would protect him and then throws him down. Soon after the helicopter explodes killing Kaushalya and Major Ranjit Singh.

Baby Shaktimaan falls and gets stuck in a tree and is later rescued by Suryanshis. They give the kid to a Brahmin home in Kashi which belonged to Pandit Vidyadhar Shastri and his wife Arundhati Devi who did not have kids of their own. They named baby Shaktimaan as Pandit Gangadhar Shastri. However, soon evil strikes again and they had to flee the place during which Mr. Shastri loses his life in the hands of Kilvish. Suryanshi Mrityunjay takes Arundhati Devi and baby Gangadhar to Gutinda village where he grew up. At the age of 12 the Suryanshis convince Arundhati Devi to send the boy to Himalayas for his higher studies.

After 12 years of intensive training, Gangadhar uses his yogic powers in the presence of all the senior Suryanshi gurus in order to gain superpowers from the five elements of the universe. Once that happens their powers combine to give him extraordinary powers and he becomes a superhero who takes the oath to protect humanity and the world from the evil forces.

When the new superhero arrives in Mumbai city he soon takes on various elements of evil there. Journalist Geeta Vishwas who sees and reports about him names him Shaktimaan. Shaktimaan likes Geeta but he doesn't show his affection much as he is duty bound with his mission. He however stays close to Geeta as his alter ego Gangadhar and often protects her from danger. In an episode when Geeta dies in outer space, his love for her forces him to break the laws of nature and bring her back to life. This causes big calamities in nature and his powers are taken away from him.

It was much later that he gets his powers back. However, Geeta realizes that Shaktimaan is in fact Gangadhar and proposes him for marriage and he refuses. When asked about the reason for his refusal, he says that personal love is forbidden for him and the powers bestowed upon him is his responsibility towards the society. He also reveals to her that he had brought her back to life. This breaks her heart because the Shaktimaan she loved would never break the laws of nature. She decides to leave him and accepts the job offer from UNO. Before leaving she however promises him that she would never reveal his secret to anyone and therefore Shaktimaan doesn't erase her memory about his true identity. 1 year after aaj ki aawaz shuts down, Geeta returns and starts shaktimaan comics, while Gangadhar becomes a hindi professor.

Shaktimaan’s story is identical to that of batman, superman etc. But his and others stories have one big difference. That difference is that Shaktimaan gets to know at the very end that Kilvish was the one who was the real killer of his biological parents and his foster father Pandit Vidyadhar Shastri. He instead became shaktimaan because his aim was to kill the sin in the people and not the sinners. Shaktimaan is very powerful but he is very vulnerable to unknown threats. An example is when Gangadhar is fatally poisoned until he finally decides to awake his 7 chakras by doing kundalini yoga. That poison was actually a poison which was injected into people in the city, and a doctor named Kodhar would say that it was a necessary injection and the person would become brain dead. Then their heartbeat would be made so slow that it would be almost impossible to say that the person was actually alive.

Powers
Shaktimaan has superhuman powers which lie inside his body in his seven chakras of Kundalini attained through meditation. Shaktimaan worships God through the symbol Om. Truthfulness is his motto. He can even separate his body into five different element bodies of fire, air, water, earth and space. He is an attractive and intellect male with holding divine powers, he has many powers like heat generation, light projection, invisibility, intangibility, super strength, shape shifting, will power based constructs, unarmed combat. He is an expert, skilled and intelligent fighter and has fought with super-skilled enemies. He possesses physical powers like unlimited speed (up to the speed of light) because he can travel through the speed of mind (teleportation) which is infinitely faster than the speed of light.

Shaktimaan's powers are virtually limitless. He can do practically anything he imagines. The only limit to his powers is his own belief in himself and his knowledge of how to manifest his powers. His powers come from his chakras. (Note: Although we’ll call them chakras in the vedas, in the series dialogue they will also be called energy centers.)

The seven chakras in his body which give him powers are:


 * Energy Chakra (1): This chakra gives Shaktimaan super strength, enabling him to fly, shoot fire from his hands, emit rays from his fingertips, blow a stream of freezing air, or send out protective force fields which nothing can penetrate (provided he can maintain his willpower and not give in). Shaktimaan's strength allows him to physically penetrate anything and lift any object.
 * Creative Chakra (2): This chakra gives Shaktimaan the power to manifest things out of thin air, but they can be unstable and comically fall apart or cause other problems if Shaktimaan is distracted and loses concentration.
 * Astral Chakra (3): This chakra gives Shaktimaan the power to control his astral body (a semi-transparent, ethereal duplicate of himself) which can fly, walk through walls, spy on others, see inside objects, etc.
 * Heart Chakra (4): This chakra gives Shaktimaan the power to control the will of others, but only for good. He can will people to do the right thing, see the error in their ways. This power is most useful when Shaktimaan needs to stop someone who is under the control of Kilvish from doing evil.
 * Vibration Chakra (5): This chakra gives Shaktimaan the power to control all types of vibrations, including sound waves, light waves, shock waves, healing warmth, etc. He can also use it to hear ultrasonic sounds or infrasonic sounds, and can speed up the vibrations of his own atoms allowing him to transport himself in space or time. This can be very useful for getting out of dangerous situations.
 * Psychic Chakra (6): This chakra gives Shaktimaan the power of the "third eye" which enables him to read minds, to erase memories of a person and to see anywhere in the world at any distance. He can sense impending danger and see things at any corner of the world. And, he can even revive a dead being (by combining his powers of 5 Elements).
 * Crown Chakra (7): This chakra connects Shaktimaan to the divine and spiritual nature. It also allows for spirituality to integrate into physical lives. The Crown Chakra is directly aligned to seek an intimate relationship with the cosmos. Shaktimaan can change, create or destroy entire universe and can travel through the multiverse and and can do time travel by this chakra.

But if he will use his powers illogically, his powers will strictly taken back by his seven mahagurus, especially those powers which brakes the laws of nature, e.g. powers like time travel, reviving a dead being and (change, create or destroy entire universe), powers like these can be used only in very extreme conditions when entire universe will in danger. Thus, Shaktimaan always uses his powers in limit, according to the situation.

The Five Elements of Nature which are Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Space, these elements give him so many powers according to that element are:


 * Fire Element - Fire element gives Shaktimaans, all types of fire related powers like flame thrower, fire breath, heat generation, light generation, fire generation, fire balls thrower, can do fire explosion, fire telekinesis, limited space survival, flight etc. And give resistant to any type of fire attacks.


 * Water Element - Water element gives Shaktimaan all types of water related powers like Water thrower, deep and super fast swimming, water temperature changing, under water breath, flight at small limit, freezing breath, rain formation, water telekinesis, water cutter etc. And resistant to any type of water attacks.


 * Air Element - Air element gives Shaktimaan all types of air related powers like wind blower, tornado formation, telekinesis (by using air of surroundings), climate or temperature changing, cyclone formation, weight lightness, float/flight (limited to the Earth atmosphere) etc. And give resistant to any type of air attacks.


 * Earth Element - Earth element gives Shaktimaan all types of earth related powers like rock/soil formation, rock/soil thrower, high strength, super durability, High jump, fast digging ability, underground rock telekinesis, control on plants, swamp creation etc. And give resistant to any type of earth attacks.


 * Space Element - Space element gives Shaktimaan all types of space/energy related powers like energy absorption, teleportation (everywhere in whole universe), space survivability, flight (at the speed of light), cosmic energy beams, cosmic energy blasts etc. And give resistant to any type of energy attacks.
 * Sometimes, Space Element also referred as Sky Element. However, Sky is like a synonym of the Space. Thus, it doesn't matter which way you want to call it either Space or Sky, both are correct. But technically, Space will be a better name.

Shaktimaan can take the form of a one individual element for using it's individual element powers or he can divide himself in his five respective element forms, all together for using their powers together. And, by using his all five element powers at once he can even revive a dead being. But usually, it is out of the limit of his laws. (Reason is already mentioned above).

Powers like attractive male, healing, will power-based constructs, intellect, stamina, super strength, shape shifter, unarmed combat, telekinesis (according to the particular element), telepathy remains common in every element form.

The basis of Shaktimaan is yoga and spirituality, which is certified.


 * 1. Power Source

Kundalini Shakti, Pancha Bhoota, Self-power, Divine power which is infinite


 * 2. Power of truth and dharma

The creation of Shaktimaan has happened to restore the truth and righteousness.


 * 3. His 5 Elements

Shaktimaan has the powers of all five elements are fire, air, water, earth and space or sky. Each element contains it's unique powers. He has full control on these five elements. No one can harm Shaktimaan by using these elements because these elements are the source of Shaktimaan's power.


 * 4. His 7 chakra powers

As we all know that the source of the power of Shaktimaan is Kundalini,

There are seven chakras in the Kundalini


 * 1. Muladhar Chakra

Earth element control

Control on physical forces like gravitation, gravitational force, soil, rock and plant control etc. Develops the qualities of patience, thoughtfulness, practicality, hard work, increases experience and stability. Nurturing, generous, and care giving and seeks to draw all things together with itself, makes super energetic, develops super human strength like strong abilities.


 * 2. Swadhishthan Chakra

Water element control

Ability to live in water, control of the temperature of a water body by the desire. Fearlessness, articulate, calmness, cleverness, fickleness and introspective, self-contained and self-sufficient. Penetrating, critical and scrutinising, seeking knowledge and understanding abilities. Super high speed of swimming, knowledge of languages of aquatic animals.


 * 3 Manipura Chakra

Fire element control

Complete knowledge of yoga, can live without water, food or air, flight, can control heat waves to generate fire, invisibility, velocity almost equal to light. Fills up with spontaneity, inspiration, good leadership capacity, intuition, and develops big passion. Knowledge of all languages present on earth, even of animals, birds, plants and trees. Hypnotism, meditation, medicine as well as knowledge of Ayurveda.


 * 4. Anahata Chakra

Air element control

Omniscient, ability to flight/float in air. Qualities like quick Thinking, well discipline, curiosity to initiate and stability of behaviour in every situation. Telepathy, foreign entry (entering the living or dead body of another). Can see everywhere on earth from any distance. Divine vision to see the invisible, rejuvenation, attracting all the pace of mind, the meditation and manifestation, hypnotism.


 * 5. Vishuddh Chakra

Space/Sky element control

Knowledge of ancient and modern science, the ability to curse, knowledge of entire texts literature composition, develops good qualities of sing, music and dance art, to hold many bodies like yours or different. Shape shifting, Knowledge of the subtle mysteries of the universe, Revealing any substance from zero, turning one thing into another, hypnosis and hypnotism.


 * 6. Agya Chakra

Whole universe control.

Devour someone, awakening of alternate. To give someone infinite powers, ability remove all types of rays, such as power rays, xray vision. Becomes like God, infinite powers, attains brahmana (universe) complete knowledge of the action of cosmic intersection, can go on different orbits, planets, stars etc. Basically, anywhere in the universe in just a one second.


 * 7. Sahasrara Chakra

All Universes (Multiverse) control

Ability to compose, follow, change and destroy the universes in less than a second. Complete knowledge of the space time, universe, multiverse and 26 dimensions. Ability to travel between space time, multiverse and even 26 dimensions easily. To be equal to Parambhrama (most powerful god, who can do anything he wishes) infinite powers, natu re is adorned for obedience.

Weaknesses
Though Shaktimaan is super powerful, there are a few weaknesses that he has: Back to List of Shaktimaan Characters.
 * Paap Punj and Paap Mani. He possesses godlike powers, but his biggest weakness is a crystal (Paap Mani) possessed by Tamraj Kilvish which can be used to defeat and even kill him. This makes him powerless because it is filled with the evil of the world and is the source of the black powers. But he regains his strength after the crystal is taken away from him. He can be killed if the crystal is placed in front of him and he is treated violently to the verge of death.
 * Geeta Vishwas
 * Even though Shaktimaan is very powerful and can heal in seconds, if attacked on him for long, he will get stunned and can be defeated
 * Even though Shaktimaan can bring people to life by breaking laws of nature, this will bring calamities in the world and his powers will be strictly taken back from him by his seven mahagurus. An example is when he revived Geeta when she died in an episode.
 * Depression from dilemma.
 * Toxic acid from Rhohakshins.

Behind the scenes
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