Bhikkhu Samahita of Sri Lanka- The Five Rebirth Destinations ! Where are you GOING?
The Blessed
Buddha
once explained:
Sariputta, there are
these five destinations. What are the five?
Hell, the
animal realm, the realm of
ghosts,
human beings, and
gods...
I fully understand
hell, the
animal,
ghost,
human, and the
divine realm,
and the various paths and ways leading to these realms of existence...
I also understand, know and directly see how any one who has entered
a path to hell, on the breakup of the body, right at death, will
reappear
in a state of deprivation, in a painful destination, in purgatory, in
hell...
Similarly do I understand, know and see directly how any one, who has
entered such path on the breakup of the body, right after death, will
reappear as
animal,
ghost,
human or a
divine being...
I understand
Nibbāna, the path and very way leading to
this
Nibbāna...
And I also understand & see directly how one who has entered this path
realising it himself by direct experience, will right there and then
enter
and dwell in that release of mind & that release by understanding,
which
is
fermentation-free after the elimination of the
mental fermentations!Source (edited
extract:
The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha.
Majjhima Nikāya. MN 12.
i 73-4:The great lions roar:
Book:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.012.ntbb.html
Comments: Ancient Manual on these 5 destinations:
Pañcagatidīpanī.
Translated by Ann Appleby Hazlewood.
In Journal of the Pāli Text Society.
Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=13271
Comment:
Seeing beings die and reappear is
an ability of the
Divine Eye, which is
an ability connected with gaining suprahuman force & with Awakening:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_V.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.htm
Please
enjoy study here for details on Rebirth:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rare_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Animal_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Endless_Round.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samsaric_Dread.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Minor_Hells.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_BIG_Family.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Hell_Destiny.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Destinations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Kamma_and_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Samsaric_Round.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mad_Demon_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Being_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm
On The
Thirty-one Planes of Existence:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
The Five Rebirth Destinations!
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