[170] Sāriputta, there are these five destinations (gati). What five? Hell (niraya), the animal realm (tiracchānayoni), the realm of ghosts (pettivisaya), human beings, and gods.
Sāriputta, I understand hell, and the path leading to hell, and the way of practice leading to hell; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, the lower world, hell.
Sāriputta, I understand the animal realm, and the path leading to the animal realm, and the way of practice leading to the animal realm; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn in the animal realm.
Sāriputta, I understand the realm of ghosts, and the path leading to the realm of ghosts, and the way of practice leading to the realm of ghosts; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn in the realm of ghosts.
Sāriputta, I understand human beings, and the path leading to the human world, and the way of practice leading to the human world; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn among human beings.
Sāriputta, I understand the gods, and the path leading to the world of the gods, and the way of practice leading to the world of the gods; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn in a good destination, a heavenly world.
Sāriputta, I understand Nibbāna, and the path leading to Nibbāna, and the way of practice leading to Nibbāna; and I also understand how one who has practised in that way, through the destruction of the taints (āsava), realizes for himself with direct knowledge, in this very life, the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, and having entered upon it, dwells therein.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.