Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

tial nature of the food itself. He ate every last morsel of what was
offered, and it turned out to be exactly the right amount to fill his
stomach. Had there been even a little extra, he would have been
unable to finish it.
Having eaten, he set off again feeling incredibly robust and
radiant, not at all like the person who was at death’s door a short
while before. Walking along he became so absorbed in thinking
about the mysterious gentleman that he forgot about the rigors of
the journey, the distance he had to walk, and whether or not he
was on the right trail. As evening fell, he emerged from the other
side of that vast wilderness just as the mysterious gentleman had
predicted. He crossed the border into Thailand with the same
feeling of joy that he had been experiencing all day. The mental
and physical distress that had tormented him earlier in his jour-
ney had disappeared after his morning repast. When he finally
crossed into Thailand, the land of his birth, he knew for certain
that he was going to live.
He said that the strange gentleman he met was surely a
devic being and not one of the local inhabitants. Think about it:
From the point where he met that gentleman to the point where
he entered Thailand, he encountered not a single human habi-
tation. The whole affair was very puzzling. Ordinarily, one would
expect to meet with at least a small settlement of some sort along
the whole of that route through Burma. As it turned out, his
evasion of the army patrols had been so successful that he had
encountered neither people nor food. It had been so successful
that he had nearly starved to death.
Ãcariya Chob said that his almost miraculous escape from
death in that vast wilderness caused him to suspect the involve-