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Reply To: Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortion

Until a gandhabba merges with it, a zygote (produced by an egg and a sperm) is “lifeless.” However, with the merging of a gandhabba, that zygote becomes alive—as alive as…

Reply To: Is it the gandhabba that attains Nibbana and permanently gets deleted from world

Yes. A human has a subtle/invisible “manomaya kaya (gandhabba)” and a physical body. Brahmas only have a manomaya kaya (no physical body), which is not called a gandhabba. In humans,…

Reply To: Rupa and Dualism

…Gandhabba“ However, to understand advanced posts like those, one must have a good background about kammic energy, viññāṇa, gandhabba, etc. May be reading such a post can get someone motivated…

Triune Brain: How the Mind Rewires the Brain via Meditation/Habits

…the gandhabba close to our physical heart. Since it takes time for our brains to analyze the “incoming data,” typically, there is about a 100th of a second delay between…

10. Attaining the Sotāpanna Stage via Removing Ditthasava

…in the “human bhava,” one becomes a gandhabba and has to wait until a suitable womb becomes available; see “Mental Body – Gandhabba.” Thus rebirth in the human realm does…

Working of Kammā – Critical Role of Conditions

…mundane Eightfold Path by getting rid of the ten types of micchā diṭṭhi. That includes not believing in rebirth and the concept of a gandhabba; see, “Micchā Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and…

Dasa Samyōjana – Bonds in Rebirth Process

…micchā diṭṭhi (wrong views) about the world that we live in. See, “Miccā Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and Sōtapanna Stage.” This essential pre-requisite or the pre-condition to “enter the Noble Path” was…

Difference between "Arahant phala samapatti" and "Nirodha samapatti" ?

…is maintained by the kammic energy than what is the ahara (food) for the gandhabba during this period (during nirodha samapatti) ? How does the gandhabba is alive ? (6)…

Reply To: The Infinity problem – BIG doubt

…shell; it is being controlled by an unbelievably small “almost mental entity” called gandhabba. And that gandhabba itself changes moment-to-moment (by changing gati), and drastic changes in gandhabba occur when…

Antara Parinibbana

…Antara Parinibbāna state. The gandhabba would still survive the death of the body and come out and stay alive until the kammic energy for the human bhava is exhausted, at…