cerned about the dreadful moral consequences. They were ter-
rified that if anyone shot a gun in that area it would explode in
his hands and kill him. Strangely enough, whenever he went to
stay in an area teeming with tigers, those beasts would stop kill-
ing the domesticated cows and buffaloes around the local vil-
lages. Nobody knew where they went to obtain their food. These
remarkable incidents were related by Ãcariya Mun himself and
later confirmed by many villagers in those localities where he had
stayed.An Impeccable Human Being
Another mysterious incident happened when a gathering of devas
visited Ãcariya Mun. Their leader began a conversation with him,
stating:
“Your stay here has caused much delight in all the devas.
We all enjoy an extraordinary sense of happiness due to your all-
embracing aura of compassionate love that permeates through the
heavens and spreads across the earth. This aura that radiates from
you is indescribable and wonderful beyond compare. Because of
it, we always know where you are. This aura of Dhamma ema-
nates from you and streams out in all directions. When you are
teaching Dhamma to the monks, novices and lay people, even the
sound of your voice resonates unbounded through the higher and
lower realms. Wherever devas live they hear your voice – only the
dead are deaf to it.”
I would like to write a bit more about this conversation
between Ãcariya Mun and the deva. Although I cannot vouch for