Reply To: Gandhabba: Lying in Wait for Appropriate Womb
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…is an easy way to look for relevant posts: “Search Results for: matching womb gandhabba.” 3. The following is what I mean by a “matching womb” or a “suitable womb.”…
…sutta refers to a “viññāna entering a womb.” In the above example, “viññāna entering a womb” indicates how the inert zygote becomes “alive” when a gandhabba enters the womb and…
…This gandhabba now awaits a suitable womb to be available. Of course, the gandhabba cannot decide on a womb. Instead, when a right womb becomes available (i.e., matching the “gati”…
…after the egg and sperm are merged to form the zygote, a “matching gandhabba” can descend to the womb and merge with that zygote. The zygote provides the “physical base,”…
…“Physical Body” – Different Types of “Kāya.” This gandhabba may stay in that form for even years until pulled into a suitable womb with matching “gati.” How Does the Gandhabba…
…the new physical body of that animal. That animal gandhabba now has to wait for a suitable womb. It is not that gandhabba decides which womb is good; instead, when…
…(among humans.) Now, that is a human gandhabba without a physical body. It may be several years before that gandhabba is pulled into a matching womb. That human gandhabba will…
…or touch. When a living being is born in the human realm, it is born with that “manōmaya kāya,” given the particular name of gandhabba. When a suitable womb with…
…mental body (gandhabba) came out of that dead body. Then, that gandhabba was in the “paraloka” waiting for a suitable womb. Many years later, gandhabba was pulled into Jeffrey Keene’s…
…doing a “selection process”. Gandhabba itself also does not have any control. It is just pulled into the right womb, when a matching womb appears. “In addition to bhava, is…