Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṃyutta
3. Chaḷ-Indriya Vagga

The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
3. The Six Faculties

Sutta 26

Sota or Sot'āpanna Suttaṃ

Stream or Stream-Winner

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[1] THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, there are these six sense-faculties.

What six?

The sense-faculty of eye,
the sense-faculty of ear,
the sense-faculty of nose,
the sense-faculty of tongue,
the sense-faculty of body
the sense-faculty of mind.

These are the six sense faculties.

When the Ariyan disciple understands,
as they really are,
the arising
and the perishing of,
the satisfaction in,
the misery of
and the escape from
these six sense-faculties,
such an Ariyan disciple, monks, is called
'Stream-winner,
one not doomed to Purgatory,
one assured,
one bound for enlightenment.'"