The question has to do with the relation and the interaction between brain and gandhabba
Refer to Lal’s post above, March 3, 2018 at 7:24 pm:
4– Those gathi and asavas are certainly not in the physical body or even in the brain
5- But that tiny gandhabba is the one making you type or speak, etc.. In fact, you are your gandhabba, the mental body…. Speaking and body movements are done with the help of the brain.
The question is this: when a decision is to be taken, this way or that, it is clear that the thought processes happen in the brain, but the brain is an organ or organism pertaining to the body along which it came into being in the present jati, but the gandhabba, in the case of a human bhava, may have existed through previous jatis in that same bhava. Now since any decision, either way, will affect the gandhabba also into the future jatis, it would seem ureasonable to suppose that the future of the gandhabba, in that bhava at least,should be determined by the functions of a meterial and temporary organ, the brain.
Put simply: who is in charge here? Does the gandhabba in any way have influence over the decisions taken by the brain? Or does the brain function regardless? Now:
‘5- But that tiny gandhabba is the one making you type or speak, etc.’ Does it follow that the gandhabba is the one NOT making you type or speak when you are weighing the pro and cons of whether to do so – NOT to submit a particular post, as in this instance, for example, or NOT to say something to someone? Because the decision will affect the gandhabba not the brain. It is the gandhabba who will experience the effects, so it would seem odd, even unreasonable, if the gandhabba does not have, at the very least, an influence on the decisions taken by the brain – IF they ARE taken by the brain.
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