Dear Siddharta,
we learn that kamma, which is wholesome or unwholesome volition, a
cetasika, produces result, vipaaka accordingly. Nobody can prevent
kamma from doing this, kamma is very just.
Killing a parent is a very grave kamma, it brings an immediate result
in the next life by way of rebirth in Hell. As you say, parents did a
lot, they introduced their child to the world.
Such a person could not become an arahat, since the arahat has no
more rebirth.
Now, people may think and speculate about matters such as Oedipus, or
the father being a murderer, but this is not helpful. Many doubts can
arise. Let us consider kamma and vipaaka in the ultimate sense. In
the highest sense no being commits kamma, no being is reborn. There
are condiitons for the arising of grave akusala kamma, a cetasika. It
produces the rebirth-consciousness arising in a Hell plane. This is a
matter of cause and result.
Nina.
Op 11-jul-2007, om 0:00 heeft Annapureddy Siddhartha Reddy het
volgende geschreven:

> why cannot a son become an
> arahant if he kills his father (say) who happens to be a mass
> murderer (an
> imaginary situation would be Hitler and his son)?

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