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come about in the world. Although the behaviours done under the influence of the defilements¹ are visible to the outside world, the defilements themselves were visible only to the Eye of the Dhammakāya. The more subtle one's attainment in meditation, the more thoroughly one would be able to identify the remaining defilements in mind, body or environment. This was the origin of the quest to reach the Utmost Dhamma. Reaching this destination, one would be able to extinguish all suffering at its source. For as long as one had not reached this destination, one would have to remain the slave of the Māras. The Māras force people to think unwholesomely, say and do unwholesome things. They thrust old age, sickness and death on all — forcing everyone to get mixed up in unwholesome behaviours. They throw the natural environment and the climate out of balance, so that the rain doesn't fall according to season, so that the economy goes into recession, so that famine, drought and plague hamper peoples' lives, to exacerbate wars. Thus one has to reach the Utmost Dhamma to beat the Māra at their source. This was why Khun Yay spent the whole of her life researching in meditation, by day and by night. However, there was only so much one could achieve in a single lifetime.