Citta Vithi – Fundamental Sensory Unit

…is sent to the brain via the optic nerve. (3) Brain processes that “data packet” and transfers to the gandhabba’s “invisible body.” (4) That signal is transferred to the “cakkhu…

Reply To: NDE experiences

…(OBE) and Manōmaya Kāya” There are two sections: “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya)” “Mental Body – Gandhabba” We have had many discussions on the subject at the following discussion forum: “Gandhabba Forum“…

Reply To: What stays after death?

…can call it Deva X), expired the life there, and just grasped a human existence (human bhava). 2. When that Deva X disappeared from the Brahma realm, a human gandhabba

Reply To: Gandhabba Timespan

Lang asked: “I’m assuming that a gandhabba can stay in the gandhabba form for thousands of year straight, without birth (jati) as a human with a physical body.” – Yes….

Reply To: Hadaya vatthu in asanna realm

“This blood-dependency is in contradiction to the Gandhabba idea, I think. I think it is due to commentary?” Gandhabba (at the moment of patisandhi) is just a few suddhatthaka. How…

Reply To: Tirokudda Sutta

Thank you, Lal. A good and clear post. One follow-up question: A bhava in hell does not start with Gandhabba, but always with a birth moment in a hell body?…

Reply To: Utuja kaya of Gandhabba

If the Gandhabba is not embodied, there are no “bodily” sensations? I mean, there are no sensations generated through utuja kaya and impinging on “kaya pasada rupa”? Or, alternatively, if…

Reply To: Evolution and Gandhabba

I watched the video and the evidence is compelling. Daniel wrote: “Since we know from the Buddha’s Agañña Sutta, that the human gandhabba (or human bhava) is existing for much…

Reply To: Split Reincarnation

…The Gandhabba of the baby left already, but another Gandhabba of a man who died in a nearby village was advised to “seek shelter” (by another spirit) in the dying…