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in meditation. Having achieved this high level of meditative attainment, Chand asked Thongsuk to show her how to traverse to the afterlife realms so that she could find her father. With Thongsuk’s help, Chand finally located her deceased father who, due to his bad drinking habits, had fallen into one of the hell realms. Through her Dhammakaya Body, Chand was able to communicate with her father and asked for his forgiveness, which he granted. And through the power of the Dhammakaya, Chand helped him to recall the merits from his good deeds in earlier lifetimes so these merits could relieve him from this retribution. Her father’s retribution was indeed neutralized by the power of his past merit and he was freed from the hell realm. Upon attaining the Dhammakaya, Chand decided to reoccupy the worldly life to be- come a nun. She finally met the Great Abbot in 1938 who ordained her as a nun and accepted her as his disciple. Chand devoted herself entirely to meditation without concerns for anything else. She meditated twelve hours each day, six uninterrupted hours in the morning and six uninterrupted hours in the evening. Her meditation skills became so profound that she soon became the Great Abbot’s most outstanding disciples. The Great Abbot called her “Second to None”. The Great Abbot passed away on February 3, 1959. After his passing Chand con- tinued to teach meditation at her residence at Wat Paknam. Among these students were two promising young men, Chaiyaboon Suddhipol and Padej Pongsawat, who later became two great Buddhist monks who led the Dhammakaya Temple to its