The Rebirh of Gods In Other Planes of Existence

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of Gods and their Life-spans

(vii-ix)

…few are those beings that, deceasing as Devas (Gods), are reborn among the Devas (Gods): more numerous are these beings that, deceasing as Devas (Gods), are reborn in Purgatory (hell)…in the womb of an animal…In the realm of Ghosts…

(x-xii)

That, deceasing as Devas (Gods), are reborn among men: more numerous are these beings that, deceasing as Devas (Gods), are reborn in Purgatory…the Realm of Ghosts…

(xvi-xviii)

…that, deceasing from Purgatory (hell), are reborn among the Devas (Gods): more numerous are these beings that, deceasing as Devas (Gods), are reborn in Purgatory…the Realm of Ghosts…
 ~ The Buddha (Kindred Sayings)

Now the Gods of a High Divinity's retinue have a lifetime of one aeon. An ordinary person (who has not attained the Eightfold Path) stays there for his life-span; but after he has used up the whole life-span enjoyed by the those Gods, he leaves it all, and (according to what his past deeds may have been) he may go down even to hell, or to an animal womb, or to the ghost realm. But a disciple of the Perfect One stays there (in that heaven) for his life-span, and after he has used up the whole life-span enjoyed by those gods, he eventually attains complete extinction of lust, hate, and delusion in that same kind of heavenly existence.

It is this that distinguishes, that differentiates, the wise disciple who is innobled (by attainment of the noble path) from the unwise ordinary man, when, that is to say, there is a destination for appearance (after death, but an Arahant has made an end of birth).
 ~ The Buddha ( Anguttara Nikaya, 4:125)

The sources for the above material:
Kindred Sayings - F.L. Woodward 1965, Kindred Sayings V. Pages 397-398. Copyright © Pali Text Society, c/o Antony CPI Anthony Rowe Ltd., Unit 3-4 Pegasus Way, Bowerhill Industrial Estate, Melksham, Wilts, SN12 6TR U.K. These passages are quoted with permission from the Pali Text Society.

Anguttara Nikaya - Nanamoli Thera. The Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta). Copyright © 1958, 1998 by Buddhist Publication Society, P. O. Box 61, 54, Sangaraja Mawatha, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Used with permission.




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