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Holy Gurujī used to say something: if you have a friend who is an astrologer, then you are never free from the planets' effects in your life. Because always, we'll say Jupiter is there, Mars is there, and Saturn is a very bad constellation. Every day, and if you have a friend who is a doctor, a medical doctor, then you will never be free from medicine. Doctor doesn't mean bad for you. Always, this is a vitamin, this is a protein, these are the minerals, this is this, this is that. So similarly, if you go and search in a different way, consulting with the cards, going to ask someone about the future and asking something about the past, that will only confuse you more. I can give you in writing: these people who are prophesying cannot see into the future, only psychology. And these people have no look into your past life. If they have this, then they should go and play the lotto. That will help us to get some problems away. So if a person can tell you the future, then ask what will be today in the lotto. Is it 100% sure? Then thank the person and give half the money to that person. But a blind hand can find corn too. So three, four times repeat. Then we can believe that person has the future vision. Otherwise, only gazing, that's not enough. And playing with you the psychology, that's not good. Also, many people think that someone can influence you through magic, but no one can influence you through magic. It is your fear that creates this. What do they want from you? To influence you with magic? If they can influence, then they should influence the American president, the Chinese president, the Indian president, the Slovakian president, the Czech president. These presidents have some power to give you something, but they are not so stupid like you. These presidents are solid, very intelligent, and very clear, so the magic doesn't function there. What does the magician want from you? You have not a lot of money; you have nothing. What do they want from you? Nothing. So this is a psychological fear. And then when you get fear, then your own willpower is decreasing, decreasing, and decreasing. And then the negative power is growing. The fear is growing. And that fear is not good. Therefore, no magic can influence you. It is your weak thoughts and fear that are a terrible magic. If people are doing some magic, either they can't, or if they can, then they will not do negative things; they will always do good things. Those people have very pure hearts, and they do not act out of their own joy. They want to do something with love and positive things. Therefore, don't worry about this. So, yesterday we spoke about the energy, how the energy, the light, is improving in our life, and everything is played in our consciousness through the power, mental power, through the thinking power. Everything can change. So if you are unhappy, then close your eyes and look within yourself. Yourself. How weak you are, it means you are without energy, energy-less. The inner self is trembling, scared, and has no willpower. Doesn't matter who tells you what, you can't understand because you became blind, blind out of your own weakness. The fear has come, the darkness is there. But if you throw away the blanket of fear, the blanket of ignorance, again, you will see that, inwardly, you are very strong. 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 presented yourself. We say, if you are depending on someone, then you are not happy even in the dream. Also, not depending on your feelings. Don't be the slave. Don't be the slave of your feelings. Also, do not depend on your emotional thoughts. Also, do not become blind with your dry, negative intellect. In this chārasī 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. And we went through immense pain, unhappiness, and troubles. It's not easy that the soul goes out of this body so easily. Maybe we are not afraid to die, but we are afraid of how we will die. We are only afraid of the pain. And such a pain, from where does it come to you? It means in the past you had this pain, and you don't want to repeat it again. So finally, we came to the 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 towards all your other best friends, that is not dependent; you are free. But if you depend physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, then you are dependent, and you can't be happy. Then, if you miss that, you will cry because you are missing. You think you can't live anymore without that person or without those things. Either you give up, or it will be taken away from you. If you give up your free will, there is joy in it, happiness and freedom. But if it will be taken away from you, then it will be more painful, more sad. It will create the anxiety; it will create the 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 thyself, what makes you unhappy? What troubles you? You will see it's 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 can't imagine how happy you will be. Imagine there is one case, and in this case, one bird is closed in. Now, the nature of the bird is to fly limitlessly, high up, horizontal, vertical, tree to tree, field to field, village to village. But you have closed that bird in a small case. Do you know what karma you will have suffered? For this bird is a lifelong prison. And you go to the forest, and you open the door of the cage, and the bird flies. Again, she's 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 can't come out of it. If you think that you are imprisoned by your partner, then you will never be happy. The love will disappear. You know, to be lifelong with a partner is the most beautiful thing. And 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, these are the two wings of the bird. And the ātmā of both becomes one soul of that bird, and this cannot happen without the love, that love you may say devotion, which I explained to you yesterday. The husband does have a devotion towards his wife. Bhava and wife also have a devotion towards her husband. It is said that a wife will never eat till her husband doesn't come home, and the husband also will not eat before he sees her face, if she's okay, if she's happy, and if one of the partner... Is traveling, then that partner which is gone for traveling always leaves something, gives you something, and that becomes for you the embodiment of your partner. There is one beautiful story, reality, the time of the Mughals and the Mughals. When they were ruling in India, they made all kings as slaves. All kings from India had to be under the Mughals, and they were serving them like slaves. So there is one Mughal who was called Bahādur, and this Bahādur had a round in New Delhi. Was his fort in New Delhi, and had two, three hundred kings. One day, one Muslim saint came, called the Fakīr. Fakīr means not who's sitting on the middle bed. In Europe, you are taking always what is negative. Yoga means standing on the head and sitting with twisted legs. This is the picture of what you think yoga is. Fakīrs sitting on needle beds, vegetarianism to become ill. Many things, unfortunately, of course, 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 don't 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's sitting on the middle bed. Fakīr is also... 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 can't call you a fakīr, you know. You are only a lakīr, not a fakīr. Lakīr means a line on the stone. So only you can go on this line. If you come a little out, you are afraid. You didn't overcome your fear, neither social fear, cultural fear, religious fear, emotional fear, intellectual fear, existence fear. You are stuck in the fear. That's why when I come near to you, I feel like this. I'm coming to fear. That's why you can't be a fakīr. A fakīr is also sitting here and hanging one knife with a very thin thread. Any time, that thread will break. And now Fakīr has to meditate there under the knife. And what will you do? Like this? That's it. So one Fakīr came to the Bahādshāh. And he saw many kings sitting there for some five years. Some one year, some three years. Fakīr was angry. On Bahādsāha. He said, "Bhajjā, you present so many kings here, what about their queens?" You didn't think of them? If one of the queens only will give you what they call the curse, your whole Bhajja will be finished. That is the power of the woman, the power of the partner. Because that's called satī, pativratā, the true partner, the faithful partner. Bhadra said, "Lord, I will consider this." So when the fakīr went away, Bhadra called all the kings and said, Is there anyone of you here who can say to me, while putting a 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's theater, the female history. So before you say it is a question of your life, be here forever or go home and enjoy your freedom and your kingdom. So there was one king from this state called Bundi, he stood up and he said, "I can tell you, my wife is one of the greatest divine, faithful ones." Bhatsa said, "Very good. You have to wait for one year." I have to make a test. So the Bhaṭṭa is sending some secret messengers. And Bhatsa had one brother-in-law, a brother-in-law. It's called Phajulakha. Phajulakha said to Bhatsa, 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, "Okay, 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 had no chance to see the queen. Then he asks the secret police about the family history. This is a true story. And they said, "Yes, King Mansingh has an aunt, the sister of his father." And since she married, maybe she came once or twice back. No transportation, long distance marriage. And there was always fear that the other king would kidnap the queens. So the women were always kept in the treasure. Are you proud of yourself? Yes. You wish your husband will keep you also nicely in the treasure, her. 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. These women were known as dictators, spies. 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 and had a few ladies around her. That's called the slaves, and some men are the protectors. And with one very nice horse coach. She was coming like Her Majesty and 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 her aunt, really, because at that time there were no pictures and 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 him, her, with her. Then they became so good friends. So one day they were having a bath together. It was a king's bath, like half of this room, the fountains, and like a big bathtub and swimming pools and like this. So both ladies... The queen of Mansing and aunt, the wrong aunt, they were enjoying bath with the bath dress, of course. So the aunt saw that Mansing's wife's thigh, there was some brown spot by birth, like a scar. And she said, "Thanks to God." I have the evidence. Now I can tell the king that she's not faithful. I know that she has a scarf on her thigh. Then she asked Mansingh's wife, "My nephew's not been here for three years." Did he give you something when he went, so that every day you see this to 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 don't ask you for anything, please give me this as a present. It's my father's heritage." The Man Singh's wife said, "Please, aunt, you can't do this to me. This means a lot for me. It's only this." Life, which keeps me alive, when I see, I see my husband himself here. You see the dedication of a wife and the dedication of the husband. Three years here, nowadays three hours, and you are thinking of divorce. Rām, Rām... What a God! Oh God! Jesus, Maria! She said, "You are coming from the poor family. You have no education. You don't know how to behave. It's my father's property. It's my heritage. I will keep this, and I will tell my nephew how you..." Behave to me, oh God, she said, "Dear aunt, don't be angry. Take it, though it's very hard for me. I'm giving you my heart, and please keep it safely." She said, "Yes, this I like." She put it in. You know, tomorrow I'm going, so I arranged everything for my departure. She said, "Stay a few days more." I said, "No, I have no time." Now she got what she wanted, and she went away. After a few kilometers, she changed her dress and went to Fajula Khan. Said, "Dear Fajula, solid, what you call the solid proof? This is the knife which always she has with her, given by Man Singh. She will not eat before without looking at this knife." And she will not sleep without holding it in her hand. She said, "Thank you." Second, any more evidence? Yes. On the right thigh, high up, she had two to three centimeters of scar. Thank you, enough. And he hurried up and went to Delhi. And Bhatsa came, "Oh, Fajula Kha, you are here. It took a long time." He said, "Your Highness, it was so joyful." She didn't 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 times, days and hours. As proof, she has here a sign, a dark sign on the thigh, a scar. And as a memory, as a souvenir, on my departure she gave me this knife, told me, "Please keep it, here it is, call your Mansingh." Batsa called Mansingh. "Mansingh, I told you," The trick and character of the woman, You can't trust. He said, "Why? Do you know this knife?" He said, "Yes, sir." You know that she has a black spot on her thigh? He was sweating, yes, sir. I told you, she is not a faithful one. 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 come straight back. The king said, "You are not going to kill her." She said, "No, no, sir, I will not do this." And he took that knife and went home. So Mansingh is going home. When the queen got the message that he was coming, He was so happy and prepared his welcoming. He came straight to her room, and he said to her, Thank you for what you have done. Then you turned back and went away. That's the ego of man. That's why they are suffering mostly. Often, women are not guilty. The guilt is the man's. That's it. The negative thinking of the man, the jealousy of the man, it's called blackmailing. It's like a saṅkalpa, it comes true, then. So don't be jealous. He went straight away. She was very sad. After so many years, he came. He's angry. It took her time to find out something. Then she said, "There must be something with that ant. There must be the black rice, one piece of black rice, in her eyes." Then she sent her message around, and very soon she came to know what happened. Now she decided to bring her husband back home and to prove to the king that his brother-in-law is completely wrong, a fake man. Now, what did she do? She took a beautiful orange sari, like a Swami. A beautiful Swami dress. Nice tilak. And she had nothing to do in the palace, so she was learning harmonium and singing. By God's gift, she had a beautiful voice, and she learned beautiful bhajans. And now she moved out straight towards Delhi. It took one or two months, and she came near the palace, and she sent a message to the Badhīśā. "There is some saint, Swāmī, who would like to sing a bhajan for you." And he said, "Why not?" I'm happy, I'm blessed by this holy saint. She came, Gave a high place for her to sit. And she sang beautifully. A beautiful queen, but nobody knows that she's a queen. And the king said, "One more, please." So she sang. The batḥsa was completely melted. Your Holiness, what can I do for you? Anything you wish. Land, kingdom, money. She said, "I don't wish anything." You see, I came here to take my credit back. I borrowed some money from your brother-in-law. He came to me, stayed with me, and he took money from me, saying that in ten days or in one month he would give me the money back. But already one year, he didn't pay me back. He didn't pay your money back? He said, "No, your highness." The bhājā said, "Call the phajula." "Why didn't you return the money?" He said, "To whom?" To this Swamiji, he said, "I never took money from this Swamiji. On the presence of Allah and the Quran on my heart, I tell you, my Highness Bhatsa, I never even saw her." You never saw her? The queen said, "Yes, sir. He is true. He speaks truth." He never saw me. I am the queen of Mānasika. And he, with the trick, brought this knife and something about my body. I was cheated by one elderly lady. Bhasa becomes so angry, he puts Vajralakha in prison for wrong information. He says, "No, sir, no, no, no. Five years away from his wife, as a punishment," and he said to Mansik, "You are free to go." I'm so happy that you have such a nice wife. That's it. So how can a wife protect the husband? And how the husband can put his hand on the heart and speak on behalf of his wife. That's called devotion. That's called love. If husband and wife have the same opinion, the same path, and never quarrel, they will get power in heaven. So, married life is something beautiful too. You know, marriage means not only physical love. This is the last. It is a heart-to-heart, a person-to-person. That's it. Not these little, little things, emotional things, but you think that's a wife for it or a husband for that. So find like this: wait one year, two years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, wait 80 years, next life, but it will come. You know, Mother Earth will not lose the seeds. Even if there is a drought for ten years. After ten years, when the rain comes, you will be surprised how many seeds grow. Similarly, there are the women and there are the men who are meant for you. But you are not able to wait. That's your problem. Why? Because you are present in your feelings and senses. So if you are present, you will never be happy. If you are happy, playing is a theater. The real happiness is different. Rest by next lecture. Deep Nand Bhagavān.