When doing a good deed, if someone has made a wish to reborn as a human and become enlightened at the time of the next Buddha, can they still attain stream entry in this life if they change their mind or is it now a fixed destiny? What if someone has made the Bodhisatta vow, can they still attain stream entry in this life if they change their mind?
Few are those, very few who are taking the path of the great Bodhisattas.
But we can be savaka Bodhisattas who are disciples of the Buddhas.
Anyone can make vows but next year or next life where are the vows. It is different for those who have the conditions to become a future Sammasambuddha- they have fulfilled conditions over so long even before getting the prediction from a Buddha.
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If we look at the great arahats in the theri/Theragatha, the ones who has the wish to become one of the great disciples made it under a Buddha who saw their accumulations and knew they would be able to fulfill the needed provisions to do that.
It is different from someone now simply thinking they want to be like that. So it is, I would say, a different matter and yes the wish can be let go of and one could attain sotapanna even in this life - if they have right view, and pubbekata punnata ( merit from the past).
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I believe making a wish to enlighten in the time of the next Buddha does not make you unable to attain stream entry, unless there are no more Buddhas in the world age and you are likely to need more than 7 lives to encounter the next one.
If someone has made the bodhisatta vow they can change thier mind and attain stream entry if they have accumulated enough perfections, if you havent recieved the prophecy that you will become one from a Buddha anytime before. however, if you took the bodhisatta vow and have recieved a prophecy from a living Buddha that you will become one, since Buddha’s can never be wrong, you will not change your mind and you will never attain enlighten until your final life as a Supreme Buddha.
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We can look at the story of Nanda Thera.
He had made a wish to be reborn in the celestial realms.
Not only that, it was promised to Nanda by the Buddha.
Yet, he was still able to attain arahantship.
Nevertheless, it is best to just wish for the results of good kamma for the conditions to attain nibbāna without selecting a particular life.
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