Reply To: Gandhabba, sex determination and chromosomes

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taryal: 

Lal is correct. His comment is in line with mine:  I wrote ‘even if that previous bhava happened to be a human one’, meaning the bhava that just ended is not any more powerful because it is the most recent one. 

As to a gandhabba changing sex. Depends what we mean by ‘change’.  It could mean a transformation in the same gandhabba, due to a modification or modifications brought about by the gradual unfolding of the same kammic energy. That would take place in the same gandhabba (bhava).  If  ‘change’ is meant in the sense of  substitution, replacement, exchange (I changed my car, my house….) then again what Lal and myself said concerning the grasping of a new existence applies.