Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka
…through many successive births within human bhava (which can last thousands of years). When a given physical body dies, the gandhabba can enter another womb when a matching one becomes…
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…through many successive births within human bhava (which can last thousands of years). When a given physical body dies, the gandhabba can enter another womb when a matching one becomes…
…suitable womb becomes available. Then, kammic energy will pull it into that womb. And the gandhabba will merge with the zygote in the womb that was created by a sperm…
…waits for another womb. It is improbable that a matching womb will appear precisely at the death of a human physical body. In most cases, the gandhabba has to wait…
…or years. Gandhabba Descending to a Womb 6. When a suitable womb becomes available, this fine gandhabba enters the uterus. At that time, it collapses to a size smaller than…
…left in the human bhava, but he now has to stay in the “gandhabba state” until a matching mother’s womb becomes available for his next human birth. See “Bhava and…
…be pulled into that womb. Now, by “matching womb,” what is meant is matching the mother’s mental state at that time. She could be a “good moral person,” but if,…
…gandhabba‘s sensory system, while the gandhabba is inside the physical body. The gandhabba has all sensory faculties. But now those “external sensory signals” must come through the eyes, ears, nose,…
…a “human gandhabba” with a fine body leaves the dead body and has to wait in that state until a suitable womb becomes available. There are a large (uncountable?) number…
…with an opapātika birth. But that will be followed by a jalābuja birth at some point. That gandhabba is pulled into a mother’s womb when a “matching womb” becomes available….
…be initiated without a gandhabba (or the “mental body” or “manōmaya kāya.”) In the case of a natural conception, the matching gandhabba (or patisandhi viññāna) will descend to the womb…