Once upon a time, there was a caravan of thirty camels traveling through the Sahara desert on their way to Cairo, Egypt's Grand market. As the sun was going down beyond the horizon, the Sheik & his people decided to make camp for their first night long journey through the Desert and have some rest.

As the Camel keepers tied down the camels to the sandy ground for the night, they came to realize that they only brought twenty nine wooden pegs with them on this long trip and they really needed  thirty. Confused and not knowing what to do, one of the keeper runs to the tent where the sheik was resting. "Master, Master" he calls, we have thirty camels but we only brought twenty nine pegs, what should we do?

The Sheik ponders about this problem for a little while and then declares:"These Camels are pretty stupid animals, simply pretend to tie him down, and it will stay put for the night!"
They follow the sheik's orders and pretend to tie down the Camel with an illusory rope and peg, and sure enough the Camel stays there without moving an inch all night long, strongly believing that he was tied down to a real rope.

The next morning, after untying all the Camels, the caravan was packed up and ready to go, as they were leaving for their very long journey through the Desert, the keepers took a look back after a few hundred yards, to see if they did not forget and leave anything important at the camp site. In their amazement the one Camel they pretended to tie down the night before, did not move a bit, still standing exactly were he was standing the night before.

Very confused one of the Camel’s keepers runs to the Sheik and tells him what seems to be the problem. "Master, Master, the Camel we pretended to tie down last night as you told us to do, is now not moving at all and not following the caravan with the other camels, what should we do?"

The Sheik being a man of great wisdom, ponders over the problem and the answer dawned on him. " Ahaaaaaa! The only reason why this camel is not moving, is because he did not realize the truth, he does not know that he is already free, he still believes strongly to be bound to an illusory rope that does not exist, you just forgot to pretend to untie him!

Master the Camel was always free all along, there never was a rope present to bound him at all, just the belief of one, but still he will refused to accept that he was free to move and roam freely?

The Sheik answers: "Yes! Yes! that's right. The Camel is already free, but a Camel is a very stupid animal, he won't question his belief and look if there is really a rope that bounds him, he won't accept that he is free, so you must make sure that you pretend to untie him and make him feel that he is being liberated and given freedom.

Make sure you make a big show with very big motions, so that he is convinced that you are liberating him from this false belief of bondage, from this illusory bondage of being tied down by an illusory rope and then he will accept that he has freedom or liberation even though he was never bound!"