August 30, 2024 at 11:20 am
#51716
Keymaster
In extreme cases, a “human bhava” may end prematurely, even without doing an anantariya kamma.
- For example, if someone cultivates “peta gati” (greed) to extreme levels, their gandhabba will keep cultivating that gati when they die. Then, that “human gandhabba” may gradually change into that of a “peta” (hungry ghost.)
- I have not seen a specific account in the Tipitaka, but I remember listening to Waharaka Thero‘s discourse in which he pointed out that possibility.