To India!

I have been studying yoga for about 5 years now and have read much of the spiritual teachings that have come out of India. Most recently while reading Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi," I became intrigued with the idea of visiting the origin of these teachings.
I also read Leonard Orr's book "Breaking the Death Habit," and saw that he was offering a tour in India to visit the immortal yogis. He is not talking about immortality of the soul. This we have always had. He is talking about physical immortality. He claims to have met 7 or 8 individuals who are over the age of 300 and have learned how to maintain the body in such a way that it lasts as long as Biblical accounts claim of the earliest humans.
I have seen in my own body that if I am totally willing to follow the whispered desires of my highest guide my body begins to rejuvenate and the signs of aging decrease. Through a prolonged juice fast of over 3 months I had coworkers at the hospital I nursed at thinking I had come to them straight from high-school and nursing school. They guessed my age at around 24 and did not believe me when I told them I was 42 until I pulled out my driver's license.

I decided to go for an entire month so I could really get a sense of India and not be rushed for time. Now as the reality of the trip begins to settle in I find myself questioning the wisdom of this choice.

I have been drawn to fruitarianism for the past few years though I've not been entirely able to limit myself to fruit. I have heard many stories about people getting sick for weeks while traveling in India from eating contaminated food so it seems that it may be a good time for me to make a clean break into the world of fruitarianism. I will not have a food processor or juicer at my disposal and the veggies will have been washed in contaminated water leaving peeled fruit as an attractive option.

While my main purpose of the trip is spiritual discovery I have recently been exploring the idea of attempting to give some performances and sell CDs. Who knows what may come of this idea? I have been told that if I were to begin performing in a crowded location I would easily gather thousands for the show and might get injured from the crowd. Having played on the streets in Portland/Vancouver for the past 2 years and finding it hard to draw a crowd of more than 20, I find this is hard to believe.