In reality mortality is our conception, immortality is reality. We make a conception of mortality because we do not know the real life. By the realization of the real life the comparison between real life and mortality makes one know that mortality is non-existent. Therefore it would not be an exaggeration if I said that the work of a Sufi is an unlearning. What he is accustomed to call or recognize as life he then begins to recognize as death. And what he is accustomed to call death he then begins to recognize as life. And therefore life and death both are not for him conditions to which he is subject, but are conditions which he brings about upon himself. A great Persian Sufi, Bedil, he says: "By myself I become captive, and by myself I become free." If I were to interpret it in a simple language I would say that: "By myself I die, and by myself I live." But why does a Sufi say this? Why does everyone not say it? Because for a Sufi it is a condition which he brings about; for another person it is a condition in which he is helpless.