Reply To: First sight of Gandhabba or Subtle body
…to “smell bad” if they have dense enough bodies. In addition, there are some peta gandhabbas (bad) and deva gandhabbas belonging to the lowest deva realm (good). Gandhabbas can inhale…
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Boy Who Remembered Pāli Suttas for 1500 Years
…the Buddha was different than depicted in the current Buddha statues (@21 minutes). More information at “Mental Body – Gandhabba,” “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya),” and “The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma.”…
Reply To: Better to Investigate the Present Moment Than Looking In to Beginning
What person X experiences is experienced by X’s gandhabba (mental body). Specifically, it is the hadaya vatthu of the gandhabba where thoughts are generated. That hadaya vatthu overlaps the heart…
Reply To: Better to Investigate the Present Moment Than Looking In to Beginning
“What person X experiences is experienced by X’s gandhabba (mental body).” That which makes experiencing possible is the gandhabba,not the reverse. Otherwise one’s body wouldn’t perish once the gandhabba leaves…
Reply To: gandha + abbha — utuja or karaja?
They are both called karaja kaya. However, karaja kaya of a gandhabba is MUCH FINER. A normal human cannot see a gandhabba. When a gandhabba enters a womb, it sheds…
Reply To: What is a thought? – How many cittas?
…get tried and hungry, and would need more food to continue. It is amazing to see, how a gandhabba (mental body) that is smaller than a single cell in the…
Reply To: Post on “Does any Object (Rupa) Last only 17 Thought Moments?”
…distances without eyes/ears. See, “Body Types in 31 Realms – Importance of Manomaya Kaya“. – However, gandhabba can “absorb” scents and can get a bit denser. The word gandhabba comes…
Citta – Basis of Our Experience and Actions
…that LIVING ENTITY is not the physical body but the mental body. That “mental body” is alternatively called a manōmaya kāya or gandhabba. It consists of a hadaya vatthu (seat…
Reply To: gandhabba as explained elsewhere
Lang asked, “Is this gandhabba the same word used in a different context? Or is it just mistranslated into “musician”.” It is definitely not correct to say a gandhabba is…
Reply To: gandhabba as explained elsewhere
Hi All, Samyutta Nikāya 31 is called gandhabba-samyutta. It deals with ‘deva’s of the gandhabba order‘. About them it is said in the first sutta of this part of the…