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there was a never ending stream of people seeking her out. About six months after the death of Khun Yay Thongsuk, there was a palmist sitting in front of Khun Yay's small hut offering her his services free. He explained, "'You will have a large number of new students and will be a refuge to thousands of people." "You can't expect me to believe that!" said Khun Yay. "I live alone and I have nothing. I have no students. I have nothing but this small kuti." As if in response to the Great Abbot's prophecy, a new generation of students interested in meditation started to come to Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen and sought out Khun Yay at her humble kuti. Khun Yay didn't think much of it, but remembering the Great Abbot's words, she started to teach them to the best of her ability. After a while however, she had begun to realize that the prediction of the palmist was true. She started to have a growing number of students of an age young enough to be her own grandchildren. She had realised that this was the start of what the Great Abbot had meant when he had talked about 'taking meditation to the world'. She formed a small class of meditators and taught in her own hut. Around 1961, when Khun Yay was fifty-two years old her health started to suffer. She fell ill for many months and in the meantime, some of her students wrote her biography into a book. Although Khun Yay Chandra was not a 'teaching' meditation master, articles about her subsequently appeared in meditation books and popular Buddhist magazines. Of course, Khun Yay Thongsuk remained more famous than Khun Yay Chandra because she was a