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come. It isn't possible."
It's true, Bhante. How could Sayadaw possibly come? There wasn't a single building at the Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery anymore. It had really become a big forest. Tall trees overshadowed everything and below them were all kinds of young trees. Thirty years is a very long time. We ourselves hadn't even been there once in those thirty years."
"Until when did Sayadaw stay at the Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery? Where did he go when he left there?"
"He stayed at Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery up until his fifth vassa as a monk. He also lived there as a novice. From Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery he went to Kalyâòî Monastery in Pegu."
"I've never heard that before."
"He only stayed at this Kalyâòî Monastery temporarily. My younger brother who was a novice went along with him. My brother's name was Maung Thein Htun. Later, his parents were anxious about him, so Sayadaw told him to return to Kyauktan Village where his parents were. In Pegu, too, bombs were dropping, so Sayadaw returned to Kyauktan Village from Kalyâòî. After the end of the Second World War he left Kyauktan Village for Kyaikkasan Monastery in Yangon. He went from Kyaikkasan Monastery to Mahâsi Sâsana Yeiktha in Yangon."
"Sayadaw said, 'Mahâbodhi Monastery was where I lived, and if one tree is still there I will manage to stay there." Saying that, he came. He said he had spoken to Mahâsi Sayadaw. At that time his stomach wasn't good. Therefore he told Mahâsi Sayadaw, "I am going to take a rest and meditate for the sake of my health. If all goes well, I'll stay one month. If not, I'll stay fifteen days." After speaking to Mahâsi Sayadaw he came, he said.
"Did Sayadaw go directly to Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery? Who else was there?"
"Sayadaw went to the monastery in Kyauktan Village. Then, the present Kyon Ma Ngei Mahâsi Sâsana Yeiktha Sayadaw, U Pa?ñobhasa, came with him. Maung Khin Win and Maung Mya Thwei, two students from the monastery, accompanied them to the Kyauktan Forest Monastery. After taking a short rest at the monastery in the village, they came to Mahâbodhi Forest Monastery."
"For Sayadaw as well, surely thirty years had passed since he had been to this
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