Taryal: “From an arahan’ts pov, “who” experiences samsara and “who” attains Nibbana? I do have a general understanding of this but something feels unclear to me.”
- In a mundane sense, we can say that the human who attained the Arahanthood attained “Nibbana.”
- We can also say that “who” experiences samsara at a given moment is whatever the lifeform is at that moment. It could be an animal, a human, a Deva, etc.
Any existence is GENERATED via the Paticca Samuppada process. No “fixed entity” goes through the rebirth process (samsara.)
Cubibobi: “Somewhere on the site is the story of a little girl who remembered her past bhava of a deva. Would that be an example of cutupapāda ñāna?”
- No. She did not have cutupapāda ñāna. That is an unusual case of a “rebirth account” by a child. Typically, children remember their last birth with a human body (with the same gandhabba, i.e., within the same human existence.) But in this case, she remembered possibly the last existence as a Deva, i.e., this was her first birth with a physical human body after she died as a Deva.
- Lang (Cubibobi) refers to the video discussed in the following comment: “Reply To: Lord Buddha statue.”