Reply To: Post on Five Aggregates – Introduction

gandhabba, hadaya vatthu, and nāma-lōka presented in the various, related posts on those subjects here on this site, of which the following seem particularly germane: Autobiographical Memory – Preserved in…

Reply To: Post on Five Aggregates – Introduction

…above, from Ajahn Samāhita’s talk, seems to align—remarkably closely!—with the concepts of gati, gandhabba, hadaya vatthu, and nāma-lōka presented in the various, related posts on those subjects here on this…

Reply To: What stays after death?

…course, that approach would work only if one has understood the concept of gandhabba. – One could take that process to include a set of hadaya vatthu/pasada rupa for an…

Reply To: Gandhabba and Bhava dasaka

“And after the gati has changed from male to female, for example, the gandhabba blueprint coming out of the body (in that same bhava) would also have changed, I assume?”…

Hadaya vatthu in asanna realm

Dear Lal, dear friends, I just reread again the article “Gandhabba-only in Animal and Human realms”, Https://puredhamma.net/dhamma/the-grand-unified-theory-of-dhamma/gandhabba-only-in-human-and-animal-realms/ At point 3, you write: “Without exception, at each such cuti-patisandhi moment, a…

Reply To: Ayatana and indriya

…to that contact (phassa).” Shouldn’t the initial contact of a rupa with the pasada rupa be such that the pasada rupa of our Gandhabba is called indriya at that time?…

Reply To: Utuja kaya of Gandhabba

“When Gandhabba is not embodied, it should also feel bodily sensations due to the impingement of kaya rupa from within, i.e. from utuja kaya, right?” – No. When the gandhabba