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SN 23.7PTS SN 3.1921 min read

A Stream-Enterer

Sotāpannasutta

One who truly understand these five aggregates is a stream-enterer.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 23.7Linked Discourses 23.7
  • 0.21. Paṭhamamāravagga1. About Māra

0.3SotāpannasuttaA Stream-Enterer

1.1PTS 3.193Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho āyasmantaṁ rādhaṁ bhagavā etadavoca:When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him:

1.3“pañcime, rādha, upādānakkhandhā.“Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates.1.4Katame pañca?What five?1.5Rūpupādānakkhandho …pe… viññāṇupādānakkhandho.The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.1.6Yato kho, rādha, ariyasāvako imesaṁ pañcannaṁ upādānakkhandhānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti—When a noble disciple truly understands these five grasping aggregates’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape,1.7ayaṁ vuccati, rādha, ariyasāvako sotāpanno avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyano”ti.they’re called a noble disciple who is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”

1.8Sattamaṁ.