Vivek Oberoi recalls meeting mysterious ‘old man with white beard’ who disappeared after their conversation: ‘He told me…’

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Vivek continued, “He started speaking to me in highly polished English. I was confused, because he was sitting at the corner of the temple with nothing on his back. He made me sit next to him, and he looked at my face. He said, ‘You’re very worried, you’re going through a period of misfortune, and that’s why you were sent here to this temple. You were going to face a big financial loss, but you’re blessed. The money you were about to lose, you spent on relief work here. This is your karma, and you will reap the benefits’.”

The old man gave Vivek some instructions, and the actor went off to carry them out. When he returned, the old man was gone. “I asked everyone, the watchman and other people, where the old man went. They said, ‘Which old man? Nobody was here. It’s empty’. I was stunned.” Vivek said that he isn’t sure if the man was real or not. “To me, he’s like God,” he said, adding later in the interview that he’s making deals worth thousands of crores in the real estate business now.

In the same interview, Vivek recalled another story, where he went to a temple and asked for an opportunity to serve. Moments later, as he was exiting the temple, a man approached him and alerted him about a child prostitution ring. Vivek investigated, and discovered several girls had been kept prisoner in a small room. “I felt a rage,” he said, adding that this experience inspired him to start a foundation.