What is the reason that only a human can attain Nibbana?

[SarathW]

What is the reason that only a human can attain or realise Nibbana?

[char101]

Devas & rupa brahmas can also attain Nibanna.

[retrofuturist]

Greetings Sarath,

Your premise seems wrong. How can you account for the non-returner?

Metta,
Paul.

[SarathW]

What I am saying is that you have to realize Nibbana as a human.
At least you should become a Sotapanna as a human.

[char101]

What I am saying is that you have to realize Nibbana as a human.
At least you should become a Sotapanna as a human.

Devas can also become a sotapanna.

And while this discourse was being spoken, the stainless, immaculate vision of the Dhamma arose in Sakka, lord of gods: “Everything that has a beginning has an end.” And also for another 80,000 deities.

https://suttacentral.net/dn21/en/sujato

[Alīno]

If my memory is good, it's said that it's The Buddha that can manifest only in humain world conditions... But Iam not sure

[retrofuturist]

Greetings Sarath,

What I am saying is that you have to realize Nibbana as a human.
At least you should become a Sotapanna as a human.

Oh OK. I see what you're saying, but I'd be wary of that assumption too...

The insight of a stream-enterer into the truths of causality on the one hand, and of the Deathless on the other, is accurate as far as it goes, but it does not equal the intensity of the insight of the arahant — one who has reached the final level of awakening. The differences between the two are suggested in the following simile.

][Ven. Narada:] "My friend, although I have seen properly with right discernment, as it actually is present, that 'The cessation of becoming is Unbinding,' still I am not an arahant whose effluents are ended. It's as if there were a well along a road in a desert, with neither rope nor water bucket. A man would come along overcome by heat, oppressed by the heat, exhausted, dehydrated, & thirsty. He would look into the well and would have knowledge of 'water,' but he would not dwell touching it with his body. In the same way, although I have seen properly with right discernment, as it actually is present, that 'The cessation of becoming is Unbinding,' still I am not an arahant whose effluents are ended."

Metta,
Paul.

[form]

If my memory is good, it's said that it's The Buddha that can manifest only in humain world conditions... But Iam not sure

Think I saw that before also if I remember correctly.

[SarathW]

I believe that beings in Brahama world can not attain Nibbana.
Perhaps the being should have a body to realize Nibbana.

[Bundokji]

The human realm is presented as a balanced state between higher realms which experience pleasure and lower realms which experience pain. As such, this can be conducive to discovering the middle way.

[salayatananirodha]

wrong
non-returners attain nibbāna without ever returning to the human world

[Bundokji]

wrong
non-returners attain nibbāna without ever returning to the human world

If a non-returner is destined to nibbana without ever returning to the human world, then why not all beings in the higher realms (or gods or whatever) are not all destined to nibbana without ever returning to the human realm? what is it that makes the case of the non-returner so unique that he does not have to return to the human realm while other deities can go to lower realms?

[DNS]

Animals - woeful realm, eat or be eaten, constantly on guard for predators or looking for the next kill for your food.
Devas - they can realize nibbana from the deva realms, for example the non-returners from suddhavasa.

Devas or humans can realize nibbana.

[Sam Vara]

wrong
non-returners attain nibbāna without ever returning to the human world

If a non-returner is destined to nibbana without ever returning to the human world, then why not all beings in the higher realms (or gods or whatever) are not all destined to nibbana without ever returning to the human realm? what is it that makes the case of the non-returner so unique that he does not have to return to the human realm while other deities can go to lower realms?

Maybe they have a little label attached: "Non-returner. Do not forward to the lower realms"

[binocular]

Devas or humans can realize nibbana.

Could someone please do a nice infographic or chart depicting all the possible permutations, so that we can reference it with ease? (Or maybe it already exists?)

if human attains stream entry --> rebirth in ... or ...

if human attains once-return --> rebirth in ... or ...

if deva attains ... --> rebirth in ... or ...