EPISODE 17

He was trecking the hills for seve days .He wanted to make a camp for himself before the dusk.He made a tent house for himself with the available tools in his carry bag. He made soup for the night and had his supper .He knew he no longer could walk and thus wanted to settle down for the night .He knew he would not be alive if he did not find out the other way .He felt the camp and was onthe lookj for atleast some tiny villages,so that he could pass away his life peacefully.Wobbling as he went at a ridge of a hill he hobbed and came down rolling to the bottom. Some woman carriying water in a xxxx,felt him on her way . she turked back and saw him. She was the same girl he loved.Writhe in shame he tried to go away, stumbled on his way and rolled down the valley.She poured water water into his mouth and.... he was taken through prayer banners fluttering , willows and hand ful of residents gracefully in the wind. He was nursed by her and saint like person .He was the friend of her brother , the master , but not shivshankar . Her brother was bed ridden, suffering from cancer . She too has cancer . But for fear loosing her he didn't tell her his secret.They could not love each other as before still there is a kind of love, a kind of pity , sympathy , existing between them.

The saint like being with almond eyes offered him salted butter-tea and he calmy sipped it while the others too sipped the tea sitting in a corner & inquired "who are you?" "patanjali" Two minutes passed . "i was a pollution control officer " "why are you here roaming in the mountains " "sir , you can never make me right......" In a secret he told the saint like person that all his efforts to make him healthy are all In vain because he had AIDS ,the saint replied cooly "AIDS is not a disease you dont worry . in aurveda we have the medicine ,for some people it could give relief , ane for some it could give back their lives.yes it is incipent can be cured totally.you can get immunity back.once you visit amarnath all your impurities will be washed away."

Amarnath yatra is extreamly diffcul and involves tracking at high altitudes of upto 14,500 feet under diffcult physical conditions and un certain weather.the yatris are required to treek for roughly 6 days to approach the holy cave for dharshan and return to pahalgam.piligrims intending to join the yatra should be medically fit and should be in good physical and mental condition .for some yatris the yatra will make them medically fit.there is yet a month ahed for the yatra .the saint like man was well in touch with the government tourist officers ,the dashnami ashram (j,k), thus could get counteir feit certificates for all the yatris, who also include some medically unfit yathris.the unfit yatris to have to treck a two mile belt around the base camp at 'chandanwari'so , to get strength the saint like person gives all the power they need .the yatris first left in vehicles from the heart of jammu city.they will make camps at some piligrim bases and enroute the shrine from the traditioanl pahalgam route.