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was trusted by the Great Abbot. She was the one he entrusted as the guardian of the rare crystal balls used when doing research. She would give the whole of herself to any meditation task set by the abbot and wouldn’t allow herself to deviate from what he had asked of her (like some people who became distracted onto things not required of them). He had had her find the afterlife destinations of so many people in heaven and hell that she was inordinately accurate. If she made mistakes, she never made them twice. She was autodidactic in many respects. Even when imprecision was rife amongst others in the meditation workshop, she never took other people as her standard. It was no surprise that she was accepted as the most accomplished. Whenever the Abbot asked her and question or requested her to do anything, she could easily do his bidding.¹ Nothing the Great Abbot challenged her to do was beyond her ability. If she was asked to look for the afterlife destination of the departed, she could do it. She could calculate the amount of merit people had performed. She could look into the future or the past. It was Khun Yay’s attentiveness and devotion to her Master’s command that lead the Great Abbot to compliment her, “My daughter Chandra is number one — second to none,” in front of all the others who did the meditation research with her. This was a complement which the Great Abbot was to give only once throughout his life.