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erty of her own educational background, she was always very supportive of educational initiatives of all kinds in just the way the Great Abbot had been. He had always inspired people to study hard even though he knew that the supreme goal in life comes through meditation. A short time later, the student graduated and soon afterwards on the twenty-seventh of August 1969 —the full-moon day of the ninth month in the Thai lu- nar calendar— members of the Dhammaprasit group gathered inside the Shrine Hall of Wat Paknam, as the student entered into the monkhood, accomplishing his intention for his life's dedication to Buddhism as ‘Ven. Dhammajayo Bhikkhu’. He had a full understanding of the reality of life — that things are not permanent — that man and all creatures are destined to die and there is no true certainty in anything. Seeking for the real Truth is the utmost goal for all creatures. Ven. Dhammajayo made a solemn vow to himself, to fulfil his mission at any cost, any degree of self-sacrifice, to bring all creatures to attain the highest bliss of Nirvana. This ordination was a great milestone for Dhammaprasit House which now had in its midst, a very talented meditation teacher. At that time, Khun Yay was already sixty-one years old. At that time, the number of people coming for meditation at Dhammaprasit House was so many that for the major ceremonies, they overfilled both the house itself, its balconies and the lawn in front of the house. There was literally ‘standing room only’ for the ceremony for offering sustenance to the Lord Buddha held each first Sunday of the month. Since the number of students at Dhammaprasit started to exceed the space available to her, she started to enter-