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>> patients were kind of untouchables, they were a condemned lot. people thought it was incurable and they would ultimately die. by treating those patients and giving them the same respect that they are human beings, they say that leprosy is not untouchable, by touching a leprosy patient, can't contamina contaminate. he gave consent and started treating. >> it's not just the fear of infection, but the fear of pollution as well. they were seen as unclean, impure. but, of course, the foundation of aghor philosophy is no such thing as unclean or unclear. >> aghor system, there's nothing called un...