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When I completed the Pad Yatra, many people came to me saying that they felt sorry I had such a hard time in Shingola, without food and shelter for 2 days. I was quite shocked to hear their sympathetic remarks, because out of the entire pad yatra, the best and most exciting time I had was at Shingola. I can still remember this so clearly. How we human beings always make rumours out of small things? Simply think, how could we survive without eating any food for 2 days? Impossible to survive, even for 1 day.
We were actually waiting for the mules and horses for 2 days. We had tents, although not all of them arrived with us, we had to squeeze more people into one tent, and a few people did not have sleeping bags which were with the mules, so they had a little bit of difficulties, but not a big problem at all.
The most exciting part of the entire journey, to me, was passing the Shingola. The only concern for all of us was the safety of the mules and horses. They simply could not walk in the melting snow, they slipped and fell down many times. We were really feeling very sorry for them. As practitioners of Live to Love, monks and nuns took the loads from the mules and the horses, so that these lovely animals could walk without anything on their backs and then they could walk safely. So that was the only small problem we had, otherwise we all had such an exciting and fun time.
Even though physically we were quite tired at Shingola, but when it came to having fun, our tiredness disappeared. Our monks and nuns walked up to the top of the pass a few times to slide down in the snow. I was very surprised to see how energetic they were when it came to having fun. I can understand, after all besides being monks and nuns, they are also human beings. I enjoyed myself looking at them having fun. I myself didn't dare to slide down the snowy slope, maybe I felt I was too clumsy and too heavy, and mentally I felt old in front of all these fun loving monks and nuns whom I see as my sons and daughters. I think I enjoyed much more watching them having fun and enjoying themselves in the snow. It was really not that cold for me, it was minus 20 something degree and this was considered to be quite a pleasant temperature for me.
