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
Nibbāna, the path and very way leading to this
Nibbāna...
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!