Reply To: Utuja kaya of Gandhabba

…Utuja rupa are produced by both the kammaja kaya and cittaja kaya and thus that comes next. That is the gandhabba with those three kāya. – When that gandhabba gets…

Reply To: Evolution and Gandhabba

Thank you both for your valuable comments. Just a short question to Lal: Soontaneous birth is something that I usually mostly accounted for the Gandhabba state. But I heard something…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

…and Body” brain plays a huge role in getting the sensory inputs to the manomaya kaya (gandhabba). – For example, visuals coming through the eyes are processed by the batin…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

…which remained same throughout that period? Is it the same Gandhabba undergoing slight modifications but still the same.” Consider a river. A river consists of a flow of water particles,…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

Does cravings and attachments inhibit the change and progress of a gandhabba? When one is on a spiritual path, their personality entirely changes as they progress, and there are some…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

We are all gandhabbas with physical bodies. – So, we can taste food, smell odors, and touch things (sexual activities included). A gandhabba without a physical body (while waiting to…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

…a gandhabba have while it does not have a physical body? We have gross body, sensation, perception, the volition to react and consciousness, does a gandhabba have any of these?…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

A Gandhabba also has rupa, but not such gross or dense rupa as this physical body. Lal explained on the articles that a Gandhabba always, at least, has the kammaja…

Reply To: Rebirth Account of Dorothy Eady

Cubibobi and Daniel are quite right. Gandhabba has a set of suddhatthaka, “smallest amounts of matter” in Buddha Dhamma. – That is what cubibobi (Lang) referred to as “Rūpa as…

Reply To: Gandhabba Timespan

…is true then when someone is possessed, does that mean that a gandhabba has has forcibly entered the body and is coexisting with the original gandhabba of the possessed person?…