September 16, 2024 at 6:49 am
#51984
Keymaster
To Samana Johann:
What do you mean by writing: “Or would good Lal say that if one falls into a tendency like a Brahma, yet still human body, that he/she took another existence?”
- Do you understand the difference between “bhava” and “jati” for a human?
- When first grasping the “human existence (bhava),” a human gandhabba is born. It has a “subtle boy” like that of a Brahma and may have a lifetime of many thousands of years. Within that lifetime, that human gandhabba can be born with a physical human body (like ours) that lives only for about a hundred years. Therefore, each of us will probably be reborn many times (with a dense human body) for a long time until the gandhabba‘s life comes to an end.
- That is why in children’s rebirth accounts, they can recall their last past life with a dense physical body. The two births are separated by several or even thousands of years. Between two such consecutive “births,” it lives in the gandhabba state with a “subtle body” that we cannot see.