I found a story that supports Sir Lal’s point.
Story of Kukkuṭamitta the Hunter
“Friends, Kukkuṭamitta’s wife (a merchant’s daughter) had attained sotāpatti-phala while being a young woman and living still with her parents. Thereafter she followed the hunter to his home and had seven sons. Asked by her husband to bring the bow, the arrow, the spear, the stake, or the net, she would bring them to him. The hunter on his part would carry those weapons given by his sotāpanna wife and would commit the evil deed of taking life for long, day after day. How is it, friends? Do those sotāpanna individuals, the Noble Ones, too commit such a crime?”
Thereupon the Buddha said:
“Monks, the Noble Ones, sotāpannas, never commit such a crime as killing. The hunter’s wife brings him such weapons as a bow and arrow because she was mindful of her duty, the duty that the wife must obey her husband’s word. She had no intention to make the hunter go to the forest with the weapons in his hand for the evil act of taking life she had not the slightest idea of that sort.
- Kukkuṭamitta’s wife attained the Sotāpanna stage when she was still a young girl living with her parents. One day, she fell in love with a hunter and ran away with him, and they had 7 children. Her husband attempted to kill Lord Buddha, but she intervened, saying “Don’t kill my father.” Eventually, her whole family became Sotāpanna after listening to discourses. This story is further proof that jhanas are not necessary to attain magga phala. It also indicates that a sotāpanna can have a desire for sensual pleasures and contribute to unwholesome actions. Notably, she even took care of the arrows that her husband used, although not for pleasure, but out of marital obligation. A sotāpanna will never take pleasure in contributing to an unwholesome action.
