"Life is a strange dream, What is real and what is not!"

There was a question he wanted to ask me. He knew I was going to evade it, so he waited for me to mention the subject. He waited all day. Finally, before I left that evening, He had to ask me, "Did I really fly?, Kabir?"

"That is what you told me. Didn't you?"

"I know, Kabir. I mean, did my body fly? Did I take off like a bird?"

"You always ask me questions I cannot answer. You flew. That is what the second portion of the devil's weed is for. As you take more of it, you will learn how to fly perfectly. It is not a simple matter. A man flies with the help of the second portion of the devil's weed. That is all I can tell you. What you want to know makes no sense. Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such."

"As birds do?"

"No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed."

"Then I didn't really fly, Shaman Kabir. I flew in my imagination, in my mind alone. Where was my body?"

"In the bushes," I replied cuttingly, but immediately broke into laughter again. "The trouble with you is that you understand things in only one way. You don't think a man flies; and yet a tantrik can move a thousand miles in one second to see what is going on. He can deliver a blow to his enemies long distances away. So, does he or doesn't he fly?"

"You see, Kabir, you and I are differently oriented. Suppose, for the sake of argument, one of my friends had been here with me when I took the herb. Would he have been able to see me flying?"

"There you go again with your questions about 'What would happen if...?' It is useless to talk that way. If your friend, or anybody else, takes the second portion of the weed all he can do is fly. Now, if he had simply watched you, he might have seen you flying, or he might not. That depends on the man."

"But what I mean, Shaman, is that if you and I look at a bird and see it fly, we agree that it is flying. But if two of my friends had seen me flying as I did last night, would they have agreed that I was flying?"

I just said, "Life is a strange dream, What is real and what is not!"