I explained that briefly in the two posts mentioned above: “Buddhist Explanations of Conception, Abortion, and Contraception” and “Cloning and Gandhabba.”
- See especially #13 and #14 in the second post above. Please read those two posts carefully.
- Mother’s mental state at the moment of conception plays a key role in matching the gati of the gandhabba that can take possession of the zygote.
- Note that the zygote was created even a few days before that, when the intercourse took place that created the zygote.
- Thus, the ‘moment of conception’ (a gandhabba ‘taking possession of the zygote’ or ‘merging with the zygote’) could be any time from the time of intercourse to a few days after that.
