heard about this matter until some four years later when Khun
Wan Khomanamun, owner of the Siriphon Phanit Store and the
Suddhiphon Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima, returned to Sakon
Nakhon for a merit-making ceremony. When he presented a cloth
offering at Wat Suddhawat monastery, where Ãcariya Mun had
passed away, the abbot gave him a piece of bone taken from Ãcariya
Mun’s funeral pyre. Upon returning home, he decided to place it
in the reliquary with the other remains of Ãcariya Mun which he
had received four years earlier. When he opened the container, he
was astonished to find that these bone fragments, received at the
cremation, had all been transformed into crystal-like relics.^1 He
was so amazed at seeing them that his spirits soared. He quickly
sent someone to check on another set of Ãcariya Mun’s remains
that he kept in a reliquary at the Suddhiphon Hotel, and discov-
ered that they too had been transformed into crystal-like relics.
A small portion of the original bone remained in the form of a
coarse powder, but soon that, too, underwent the same transfor-
mation. In the end, a total of 344 relics were counted in the two
reliquaries belonging to Khun Wan. This was the first instance
where Ãcariya Mun’s remains were found to have transformed
into relics.
News of this miracle spread far and wide. Soon people began
coming to ask him for a share of the relics. Khun Wan was a very
generous person and he sympathized with their request. So, he
shared the relics out among them one or two at a time. He very
kindly gave me some on two occasions. On the first occasion, I
received five; on the second, two, making seven altogether. As
soon as I received them I publicized the fact that I had some-
thing very special. I was enormously pleased to have them, but my
jacob rumans
(Jacob Rumans)
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