Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

directly to Ãcariya Mun about it; his friend never mentioned it to
anyone else; and Ãcariya Mun kept the whole thing to himself.
Although fully aware of the truth of the matter they all behaved as
if nothing had happened. No one spoke openly about it.
The next day the monk went to take leave of Ãcariya Mun,
who consented without mentioning the matter. The monk then
left and went to stay near another village quite a distance away.
Had this not been a true case of karmic attraction, as Ãcariya
Mun had hinted, then surely the monk would have been well out
of danger there. But, alas for the uncertainty of karmic conse-
quences: things turned out exactly as Ãcariya Mun had suggested.
Shortly after the monk left Ãcariya Mun, the young woman, who
shared the same karmic connection, ended up moving to the
other village by a fortuitous coincidence, and their paths crossed
again. This itself is very interesting, since it was most unusual for
hill tribe women to stray so far from home.
Later, after Ãcariya Mun and his group of monks had de-
parted from the first village, they heard that the monk had disrobed,
returning to lay life because he couldn’t put up with the constant
strain. His kamma had come full circle: he married the pretty
Museur woman and settled in that village.
This was a genuine case of mutual kamma. Without such a
karmic connection, how could it have been possible? The monk
who told this story insisted that his friend became infatuated the
moment he saw the woman, having never seen or spoken with her
before. This was confirmed by the other monks who were living
there. They lived together in the monastery the whole time, never
having any occasion to get involved with the villagers. Besides
that, they were living with Ãcariya Mun in a place safe from such