Friends:
Buddha himself explained The 5 Rebirth Destinations!
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 divine being...
I understand Nibbana, the path and very way leading to this
Nibbana...
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 Nikaya.
MN 12. i 73-4:The great lions roar:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .ntbb.html
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/Su ... orce_V.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... cakkhu.htm
More details on the five Rebirth Destinations:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... estiny.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... _Hells.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Animal_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hu ... ebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ma ... ebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hu ... ebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Rebirth.htm
On The Thirty-one Planes of Existence:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... /loka.html
The Five Rebirth
Destinations!
