Bardo of becoming

Bardo of becoming (T. སྲིད་པའི་བར་དོ་). The period from the arising of confusion and one's emergence in a mental body until being conceived in the womb of the next life. According to the Dzogchen tradition, this is one of the four or six bardo states.

The bardo of becoming follows after the bardo of dharmata.

Erik Pema Kunsang states:

When habitual tendencies of grasping at duality – which stem from a lack of insight into the basic nature of mind and are embedded in one's base of consciousness – regain power after their short lapse, one seeks re-embodiment corresponding to one's karmic habits, which are now ready to ripen. This is the fourth intermediate state, the karmic bardo of becoming.

After a while one enters a new body, not necessarily human, and is again in the first bardo.