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In life, it is very important to lead an independent life. We should depend only on one thing, and that is our food—our sāttvic, pure vegetarian food. Without that, our body will not survive. Otherwise, we are not depending on anyone. When you feel dependent, it means you have imprisoned yourself. Do not be the slave of your feelings. Also, do not depend on your emotional thoughts, and do not become blind with your dry, negative intellect. In this Charasī Cakra, in the cycle of rebirth and death of the 8.4 million creatures, we were caught by our karmas; we were caught by our habits and senses. We went through immense pain, unhappiness, and troubles. It is not easy for the soul to leave this body so easily. Perhaps we are not afraid to die, but we are afraid of how we will die. We are only afraid of the pain. And such pain—from where does it come to you? Bolest přichází? It means, in the past you had this pain. Finally, we came to human life, and the aim of our human life is to be free, to cut off all the ties. But it does not mean that you cut off your love: love towards your children, love towards your parents, love towards your partner, and love for all your other best friends. That is not dependence. You are free. But if you depend physically, emotionally, mentally, or financially, then you are imprisoned and you cannot be happy. Then, if you miss that, you will cry because you are missing it. You think you cannot live anymore without that person or without those things. Either you give it up, or it will be taken away from you. If you give up by your free will, there is joy in it, happiness and freedom. But if it is taken away from you, then it will be more painful, more sad. It will create anxiety; it will create anger because it is taken away from you. But you know, you were not the owner of those things. This was given to you for a while. Do not try to be the owner forever. Even this body will not be with you forever. All your feelings will not be with you forever. What you think is yours will not be yours, so we shall practice detachment to free ourselves. When you look within yourself, what makes you unhappy? What troubles you? You will see it is only your attachment. Then you will never be happy. So the aim of human life is to get mokṣa—no more karmic bondage. You are free, and you cannot imagine how happy you will be. Imagine there is one cage, and in this cage, one bird is closed in. The nature of the bird is to fly limitless, high up—horizontal, vertical, tree to tree, fields to fields, village to village. But you have closed that bird in a small cage. Do you know what karma you will have to suffer? For this bird it is a lifelong prison. You go to the forest, open the door of the cage, and the bird flies. Again, she is happy to stretch her wings and use her muscles and enjoy nature, her nature. So we have limited ourselves. We have imprisoned ourselves, and we cannot come out of it. If you think that you are imprisoned by your partner, then you will never be happy. The love will disappear. And you know, to be lifelong with a partner is the most beautiful thing. It is said that spirituality grows together with husband and wife. These are the two wings for the bird to fly. The two bodies, the physical bodies, are the two wings of the bird. And the ātmā of both becomes one soul of that bird, and this cannot happen without love. That love you may call devotion, which I explained to you yesterday. The husband does have devotion towards his wife, bhāva. And the wife also has devotion towards her husband. It is said that a wife will never eat until her husband comes home. And the husband also will not eat before he sees her face, to see if she is okay, if she is happy. And if one of the partners is traveling, then that partner who is gone always leaves something with you, gives you something. And that becomes for you the embodiment of your partner. There is one beautiful story, a reality from the time of the Mughals. When the Mughals were ruling in India, they made all kings their slaves. All kings from India had to be under the Mughals, and they were serving them like slaves. So one Mughal was called Bāhadśāh. This bhātsa had his fort in New Delhi and had two or three hundred kings. One day, a Muslim saint came, called a fakīr. Fakīr does not mean one who is sitting on a needle bed. In Europe, you are always taking what is negative. Yoga means standing on the head and sitting with twisted legs—this is a picture. What do you think yoga is? Fakir, sitting on needle beds, vegetarianism to become ill. I live in Europe, yes? I learned many, many good things. There are countless good things. But the European mentality is this: always you search first for the negative point. You do not see the rose; you see first the thorns. Anyhow, I will not tell more because I have to live in Europe. So, fakīr means not one who is sitting on a needle bed. Fakīr means one who has no more worries. Fakīr means above everything. Fakīr means free. Fakīr means the divine, realized. But it has to be a fakīr, not like you. I cannot call you fakīr, you know. You are only a lakīr, not a fakīr. Lakīr means a line on the stone. A line on the stone, so you can only go on this line. If you come a little out, you are afraid. You did not overcome your fear—neither social fear, cultural fear, religious fear, emotional fear, intellectual fear, nor existence fear. You are a sack of fear. That is why when I come near to you, I feel like this: I am coming to fear. That is why you cannot be a fakir. A fakir is also sitting here and hanging one knife with a very thin thread; any time that thread will break. And now, the fakir has to meditate there under the knife. And what will you do? Like this, that is it. So one fakīr came to the Bahādshāh, and he saw many kings sitting there—some five years, some one year, some three years. The fakīr was angry, and Bahādur, he said... "Bahadur, you imprisoned so many kings here. What about their queens? You did not think of them? If one of the queens only will give you what they call the curse, your whole dynasty will be finished. That is the power of the woman—the power of the partner. Because that is called satī, pativratā—the true partner, the faithful partner." Bāhadśāh said, "Lord, I will consider this." So when the fakir went away, Bāhadśāh called all the kings and said, "Is there anyone of you here who can say to me, while putting hand on the heart, that my queen, my wife, is my faithful one? Then I will send you home, but before that, I will make a test. If the test is positive, then you have to stay here for life. Be sure you know the female theater, the female history. So before you say it, it is a question of your life: be here forever, or go home and enjoy your freedom and your kingdom." There was one king from the state called Bundi. He stood up and said, "I can tell you, my wife is one of the greatest divine, faithful ones." Bāhadśāh said, "Very good. You have to wait for one year. I have to make a test." So Bāhadśāh had one brother-in-law, called Fajula Khan. Fajula Khan said to Bāhadśāh, "Your Highness, this chance should be given to me as a great privilege. Within no time, I will prove that his wife is not a faithful one." He said, "OK. You go." So he went to Bundi, but of course the palace was closed. No one could enter. They had their soldiers also. So he lived six months there as a beggar, but he had no chance to see the queen. Then he asked the secret police about the family history. This is a true story, and they said, "Yes, King Man Singh has one aunt, the sister of his father. Since she married, maybe she came once or twice back. No transportation." Long-distance married, and there was always fear that other kings would kidnap the queens, so the women were always kept in the treasury. Are you proud of yourself? Yes. You wish your husband will keep you also nicely in the treasure. I wish you that in the treasure of your heart. Well, then he met one woman and asked her to do a favor for him. At that time, mostly women were active in getting secret messages. Anything you want to know, tell your wife; she will find out quicker than you. They are the best in psychology. They know how to go into the heart. So she dressed as the aunt of the king. She had a few ladies around her—that is called the slaves—and some men as protectors. With one very nice horse coach, she was coming like Her Majesty. And she sent a message to the palace: "The aunt has come." The wife of Man Singh was very happy, and she received her. She did not know that this was the aunt, really, because at that time there were no pictures, no cameras. And that lady, when she walked through the palace, said, "Oh, this was my grandfather’s portrait. Oh, this is the chair my father loved so much," and she lived with her. They became such good friends. One day they were having a bath together. It was a king’s bath, like half of this room—the fountains, a big bathtub, swimming pools, and like this. So both ladies, the queen of Man Singh and the aunt—the wrong aunt—were enjoying a bath, with the bath dress, of course. The aunt saw that on Man Singh’s wife’s thigh there was a brown spot, like a scar, and she said, "Thanks to God. I have the evidence. Now I can tell the king that she is not faithful. I know that she has some scar on the thigh." Then she asked Man Singh’s wife, "My nephew has not been here for three years. Did he give you something when he went? Do you see this every day? Do you remember him?" She said yes. There was a small knife. She said, "This is what he gave me." She took it, that lady, and said, "This was from my father. My dear one, I do not ask you for anything. Please give me this as a present. It is my father’s heritage." Man Singh’s wife said, "Please, you cannot do this to me. This means a lot for me. It is only this knife which keeps me alive. When I see it, I see my husband himself." You see? The dedication of a wife and the dedication of the husband. Three years. Nowadays, three hours and you are thinking of divorce. Rām, Rām... Rām. What a God, what a God. Jesus Maria. She said, "You are coming from a poor family. You have no education. You do not know how to behave. It is my father’s property. It is my heritage. I will keep this, and I will tell my nephew how you behaved to me. Oh, God." She said, "Dear aunt, do not be angry. Take it. Though it is very hard for me, I am giving you my heart, and please keep it safely." She said, "Yes, this I like." She put it in. "You know, tomorrow I am going, so I arrange everything for my departure." She said, "Stay a few days more." I said, "No, I have no time." Now she got what she wanted. This is the knife which she always had with her, given by Man Singh. She will not eat without looking at this knife, and she will not sleep without holding it in her hand. He said, "Thank you. Second, any more evidence? Yes. On the right thigh, high up, two to three centimeters, this scar. Thank you, enough." And he hurried up and went to Delhi. And Bahā’u’llāh came, "Oh, Fajula Khan, you are here. It took a long time." He said, "Your Highness, it was so joyful, she did not let me go away. Every day she said, ’Please stay one day more, please stay one day more.’ Oh, she was in love with me, and we had many beautiful days and hours. As proof, she has here a sign, a dark sign on the thigh, and as a memory, as a souvenir, on my departure she gave me this knife and told me, ’Please keep it here. It is called your Man Singh.’" Bāhadśāh called Man Singh. "Man Singh, I told you the trick and character of the woman—you cannot trust." He said, "Why?" "Do you know this knife?" He said, "Yes, sir." "Do you know that she has a black spot on her thigh?" He was sweating. "Yes, sir. I told you. She is not faithful? Now lifelong you have to stay here." Man Singh said, "Your Highness, I beg you, just for one day let me go home. I promise you, I will straight come back." The king said, "You are not going to kill her?" "No, no... Sir, I will not do this." And he took that knife and went home. The rest of the story will be next time. The rest of the story will be next time.