He got his name, Gurdjieff, on the account of Muslim people around Georgia addressing the Georgian people as "gurdjis". He described his discipline "The Work" (signifying "work on oneself") as per Gurdjieff's principles and instructions, or primarily the "Fourth Way". He had also described his teachings, at one point, as "esoteric Christianity". He averred that "Man lives in sleep, and in sleep he dies." This quote states that, according to Gurdjieff, one cannot see reality in his current state as he does not have power over consciousness but to a certain extent lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep".