AROUND VIRAMPUR
But the day wasn‘t over. After teatime at 5 p.m. Jogesh offered to take me by car to see a check dam, built to catch the monsoon rains before they run off leaving a man made lake. It is a place that he often goes to when he feels stressed, to sit quietly and to meditate. In the background is a steep pointed mountain with a temple on top. The mountain is called in Gujurati, chain mountain, because you have to hold onto a chain to climb its steep slope.
On the way back to the Ashram we stopped at the home of a recent graduate whose sisters had also graduated from the Ashram school. A joint family, two brothers and their wives and children live together. They are a Rabari, shepherd, family with a small herd of milk cows and water buffaloes. The older brother in his white Rabari shepherd‘s outfit was milking a cow. We sat on a metal charpoy in front of the house and drank sweet masala tea from large aluminum bowls and I took photographs.
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BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 