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facilities there. So, one of the persons, who was with us... We arrived very

late at night, because it took about six hours up this mountain road to get

there. And the vehicle got stuck. Actually, the first vehicle... the clutch

burnt (the clutch Х the thing that you push in to change gears, it burnt). Then

the second veicle picked us up, and it got stuck. Then we had to get in the

back of the lorry. For about one hour and a half, with all the cargo in the

back of the lorry... And that got stuck in the river. And the jeep picked a few

of us Х and that got stuck. So, when all the vehicles left, and it was late at

night, so we had to walk the rest of the way. And when we finally got there,

there were no facilities to stop. So, the devotees were very embarassed,

because they brought me all the way there for me to recover. And it looked like

I gonna get pretty sick. Because it drops down below zero at night in the

mountains, and I had no place to stay. So, they started desperately looking for

some place. So, they were able to convince one shepherd to let all of us stay

in his shack. You couldn`t even call it a shack. I told the devotees, "That

makes shacks in the streets of Calcutta look like five star hotels." But it was

the only place to stay. And the man who was a shepherd let us to stay there for

a few days. So, they cleaned up the shack the following morning, and we tried

to tolerate the living conditions. But when we woke up the following morning,

we saw outside the shack there were these... sheep kids everywhere. And we

began having a discussion about what shepherds usually do with their sheep.

They said, "Well, we`ll get rid of their skins." So, they picked them up with a

stick, they tried to hide them in the back. They were trying to convince me to

stay so that I could get my health back together. So, I was tolerating it,

because they kept on pushing me and pushing. And we stayed there for one day.

The following morning was Saturday morning, and then a very large group of

people who were friends of the son of the shepherd came to stay in the shack.

And they wanted to stay there too. And it wasn`t a very big shack. In this

shack they had all these kinds of pots. And I suggested to one of the devotees

who was with me, that "Today is saturday, and I am sure... (because on the top

of the mountain there were these mineral springs, and these mineral springs,

they have curative powers, they can clean the internal organs of the body. And

that`s why the devotees were convincing me to stay there for a few days to

drink the water). So, I said to the devotees... There were about six people who

came. They looked very very... low class. So, I said to one devotee, "This is

Saturday. I don`t think they came here to clean their liver. I bet you, they

came to kill goats and to drink." And one devotee said to me, "Well, actually,

I hadn`t thought of that." So, I said, "Well, maybe better think of that.

Because you see that big pot right in front of the shack? I wonder, what they

gonna do with that pot?" And then, just two minutes later, the owner of the

shack came up to the devotees... because the devotees had been hanging all

their clothes right by this pot. And he said, "Move your clothes, we gonna use

this pot." So, I looked at this devotee and I said, "It`s time to go. I don`t

care how much you want me to get better. I know what`s going in that pot. And

I`m not gonna be there to see it." And just after I said that, the devotees

started immediately getting all the things together. And I was sitting outside,

and I watched three men. They grabbed a sheep, and they started driving it up

the hill. And I turned to the devotee and I said, "They are not taking him for

a bath." So, it was amazing to watch. Because you could see, the sheep

obviously did not want to go. And then, at the top of the hill, they took up

the sheep, threw it on the ground, cut the throat... You know what took place

after that. So, when those men returned back to the shack, I was already gone.

But the devotees there were trying to preach. They hadn`t brought the goat yet.

And they tried to preach these points about killing. And they later told me

their different arguments that they were giving. And despite their efforts to

convince that killing animals is not appropriate,