[Saurabh@2110]

Hello Respected sir Lal.
This is my first time asking question on this forum.
Plz naswer my question if possible for you.

Is it possible to attain stream-entry at the time of death? Is there any sutta reference for that? Other’s answers are also appreciable. What do you think sir LaL?

Thank you in advance all respected people. 🙏🙏🙏

By death, I also mean natural as well as any violent death such as bandits killing or any other type…but is it possible to attain stream-entry during such death?

 

[Jittananto]

Hi Saurabh! It is possible to attain any magga phala at the time of death. If you are destined to attain Nibbāna and you have not committed any bad anantariya kamma, it is inevitable that you will be an ariya.

Paṭhamasaraṇānisakkasutta

Mahānāma, Sarakāni the Sakyan undertook the training at the time of his death.”

Saraṇāni, mahānāma, sakko maraṇakāle sikkhaṁ samādiyī”ti.

• Sarakāni became a sotāpanna at the time of death.

[Lal]

Thank you, Jittananto.

• Yes. If one has become a Sotapanna Anugami, that person will attain the Sotapanna stage before dying (at least at the moment of death). 

Of course, one must have learned the correct Buddha Dhamma from an Ariya (a Noble Person) and must have become a Sotapanna Anugami at some point in that life.

• That is explained in “Sōtapanna Anugāmi – No More Births in the Apāyā.” See #5 there, which is confirmed by the sutta that Jittananto provided.
• The verse Jittananto quoted comes at the end of that sutta.
• Of course, if one has not become a Sotapanna Anugami up to the moment of death, attaining the Sotapanna stage at the moment of death will not be possible.

 

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