Conduit to "rebirth"?

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@Element

I suppose the craving is the channel of becoming or the flow of becoming however which i dont get is , if the meaning somehow similar to channel of rebirth

Perhaps the source of your confusion are the translations becoming and rebirth. Many translators translate bhava as becoming, but Venerable Sujato translates it as rebirth. So the bhavanettisutta doesn’t have anything to do with the conduit of becoming, if there is such a thing.

What is Bhava (becoming)?

The basic meaning of bhava is “existence” or “life”. “Becoming” is an incorrect translation, as bhava is a countable noun, eg. a stream-enterer “does not take an eighth existence”, i.e. they are only reborn seven times at most. In its straightforward usage, bhava means “existence” or “life” in the sense of “in my past life I was Cleopatra”. But it has a more philosophical sense: we exist now, and will continue to exist in the future. So there is a continuity of “existence” which manifests as p…