A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…to communicate with others. – Rupavcara Brahmas (as well as human gandhabbas) communicate directly (without words) via that sota pasada rupa. – It is only when the gandhabba is trapped…
…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…
…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…
Thank you for mentioning this: It must be noted that these details about the manomaya kaya (gandhabba) are not available in detail in the Tipitaka. – So, it is only…
…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…
…death of the physical body there. It DOES mean the breakup of the kāya that arose at the beginning of the human bhava, the manomaya kāya or the gandhabba. –…
“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?”…
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…
I see. It also fits with the scenario where the gandhabba is out of the body, but still connected via a silver cord. In that case, one would say that…
…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?…