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Kammic Energy Leads to Consciousness

…Gandhabba Concept.” A gandhabba must enter a womb and make a physical body to experience “close sensory contacts” of taste, smell, and touch. That process is described in “Buddhist Explanations…

Reply To: Posts Related to “Distorted Saññā”

I think the issue is understanding how the gandhabba (mental body) trapped inside the physical body experiences the external world. That must be understood before understanding how gandhabba recognizes things…

Jāti – Different Types of Births

…them. That gandhabba then stays for the duration of human existence (bhava.) 7. That gandhabba is periodically pulled into a womb by kammic energy to be “born with a physical…

Memory Records- Critical Part of Five Aggregates

…life. It can only manipulate the conditions for an existing gandhabba to build a physical body. See “Buddhist Explanations of Conception, Abortion, and Contraception” and “Cloning and Gandhabba.” More precisely,…

Reply To: Animals Gandhabba

A human gandhabba will be born with a human body many times during that human bhava. An animal gandhabba will be born with an animal body many times during that…

Reply To: Gandhabba: Meaning of the word

…gods.” – In addition to the “human gandhabba,” there is also a category of “gandhabba Devas.” Another sutta mentions a “gandhabba Deva,” who is a musician. That has given rise…

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…vibrations that propagate through air, again not a direct contact.) 2. The essence of a human is the gandhabba inside the physical body. If the gandhabba comes out of the…