Lal has said in several posts that a human bhava comes with its duration embedded in it,as it were, say 1000 years etc, say, 12 Jatis or so.
Now say someone attains the Sotapanna stage while in, say, the third Jati of a human Bhava. Does that mean that he will not attain the next stage, the Sakadagami stage, until he has lived through however many human Jatis are left in that Bhava, in order to ‘conform’ to and use up the anticipated lenght of that Bhava? Is he prevented?
Or, put another way,say he does attain the Sakadagami stage in that third Jati, will he still have to come back here until the human Bhava is exhausted before he ‘appears’ in a Deva realm?
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