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didn't want to do it any more. She explained, "It's not right for me to do it . . . against the regulations. Normally it must be a person outside the temple who leads the Kathina Ceremony." Until that time, indeed the leader of the Kathina Ceremony had always been a lay-supporter coming from outside the temple. "Really Yay! You are the founder of this temple. If you are the leader of this Kathina Ceremony, everyone will be ecstatic. Go ahead and be the Kathina leader. Everyone will be glad for you!" It was only then that Khun Yay responded with the word 'Sadhu!' From that time onwards, wherever Khun Yay went, she would encourage others to share in 'her' Kathina by giving donations. She had her lay attendants drive her to every province from the far North to the deep South in order to visit all her old friends. She encouraged everyone she met. Everyone wanted to share in her Kathina offering because they knew her Dhamma attainments to be very subtle and that the merit of this Kathina ceremony would certainly be very special. Now when out and about on her tri-shaw, she would stop everyone she passed and encouraged them to share in the Kathina merit with her. Khun Yay would work hard in encouraging others to share in the merit as the leading contributor. Her heart was with merit all the time. She asked everyone she met to join her merit. Once, she said to the monks at the temple: "Venerable Sirs! Please help tell the laymen. As human beings, we should practise generosity to the full. All of us will die and all we can take with us is the merit and demerit we do before we die. Please help me by telling the laymen."