Reply To: Sotapanna information from the Sutta-pitaka

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Akvan
Participant

Hi Siebe,

Under the Characteristics of a Sotapanna you have mentioned the following;

Point 5 – Five perils and enmities are eliminated: destroying life…
Point 6 – A stream entrant is not more able to commit the five serious crimes; killing your father, mother and arahanth…

This does not make sense because if a sotapanna has eliminated killing all lives, then killing your father, mother, an arahanth does not need to be mentioned separately.

The relevant pali section in AN10.92 is “Pāṇātipātā paṭiviratassa evaṃ taṃ bhayaṃ veraṃ vūpasantaṃ hoti.” Does this mean that a Sotapanna sees the perils of these five aspects (killing life etc.) and therefore tries to stay away from these, rather than completely eliminating them? May be Lal can explain this better.