The sentient being of the Heaven of Non-Form also experiences Bardo if he is destined to fall down into the lower Kingdoms. If sentient beings in the two lower Kingdoms are destined to reincarnate in the Heaven-without-Form, they will not experience Bardo after their death. Instead, a body for them will come into being (made) of the Skandha of the Heaven-of-Non-Form.

Some declare that the Beings of Non-Intermission[r_nar:89] both of lower and upper, will not experience Bardo at all. This kind of statement shows ignorance. The Abhidharma-Ghosa says:

"In the previous time, the reincarnate (beings)
Who possess the face of flesh, etc."

This stanza refers to the beings possessing the body-form

of their existence previous to the Bardo stage... [Gap in text, probably copyists' errors, occur here.] to the time before their future death. Those who do not understand this point claim that the Bardoist has a body-form like that of his previous existence. Some say that all those in Bardo have the same body-form and face as their previous existence. Some say that their body-form, visions, and perceptions are like those of their companions in Bardo. Some put various conceptions together, saying: "The face and body are like that of the face and body that will be born." On this saying is based the claim that the Bardoist possesses both the face and body of his next existence and those of his companions in Bardo.

Some say that the Bardoist has both the body and form of his previous life and of his future life. Thus they claim that in the seven-day period--the lifetime of Bardo--the bodily face, form, and visions of the first three-and-a-half days are like those of the previous life, and that the face, form and visions of the next three-and-a half days are like those of the future life. Some state that the Bardoist dies at the expiration of the three-and-a-half days that the so-called "Bardo" refers to this time. These statements have no basis at all.

As for the meaning of the "Bardo," the Abhidharma-Ghosa says: "Died from here. Gone to be born. (Between these two stages) the Bardo." This stanza explains that "Bardo" means the stage between death and the next life. Besides the Sg'ye-she-bardo (Bardo of Death and Birth) there is no other Bardo. But this Sg'ye-she-bardo is the Sridb'a-bardo itself.

However, in the teaching of the Six Yogas the classification or arrangement is somewhat different. It states that