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I Luang Phaw was and so thought — soldiers know when they go into battle that they must die, but are still prepared to fight to the last: all I had to fight against was physical discomfort — and if in such workaday conditions I wasn’t prepared to put up a fight — better that I die!” When Luang Phaw built the Pali Institute, he made 84,000 Buddhist amulets. He mixed powder with the ointment of many scented flowers and put the mixture on the shrine to be the subject of homage morning and evening. The mixture was then sun-baked and mixed with more powder before being stamped into amulets as souvenirs for those who came to make donations to the temple. The amulets turned out to be extremely popular with the temple-goers because Luang Phaw had consecrated them himself over the course of a full year through his meditation together with selected disciples all of who had already attained Dhammakāya. Originally, the amulets were distributed only to the initiates of the temple. The distribution wasn’t publicised. It was only later when word spread, that hundreds of people came to the temple daily to receive the amulets. Luang Phaw distributed the amulets himself. Only those who made donations at the temple and had the merit receipt to show Luang Phaw were allowed to receive an amulet. As the word spread, even those from distant provinces came in huge groups to visit the temple. Some chartered passenger barges. If people came at the wrong time, they would have to wait until the next day before receiving their amulet. The temple started to receive an average of 1,500 people per day coming to collect amulets. It was believed that the amulet was not sacred unless collected in person from the hands of Luang Phaw.