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simple and full of good wishes. Her words corresponded to what her visitors sought or thought of, as if she could read their minds. Khun Yai advised everyone to be meritorious and refrain from demerit: "To be born as a human being is already fortunate. You all should learn how to make merit and be generous. After death, we take nothing with us but our merit and unwholesome deeds. If you make merit, you carry the merit with you. If you make demerit, you carry the demerit with you. It does not simply disappear after death. We continue to carry our merit and demerit." Often, when some new visitors came to her, Khun Yai said: "It's good that you come to the temple now. If you do not come here now, you will eventually be carried into the temple feet-first." Khun Yai had special compassion for children, she caressed them gently with her hands. Sometimes she invited the parents to let her adopt their children- to be their 'godparent'. Khun Yai said, "Some children have a lot of merit from their previous lifetimes. Parents may find it difficult to give them sufficient spiritual support. I offer to take some of the responsibility for childrens' spiritual upbringing." Some children cried when they heard Khun Yai had adopted them. Khun Yai would smile with kindness and add "I adopt you only in name, but your parents will continue to raise you as usual." When young men came to see her, Khun Yai asked "Have you ever been ordained?" If they hadn't