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# SN 22.109 · The Sotaapanna ('Stream-winner') (Sotaapanno Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-22-109/
- Published: 2026-06-20T00:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:56:57.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 22.109. Translated by Maurice O'Connell Walshe.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
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\[*At Saavatthii the Blessed One said:*\] "Monks, there are these five groups of clinging. What five? The body-group of clinging, the feeling-group, the perception-group, the mental-formation-group, the consciousness-group of clinging.

"And when, monks, the Ariyan disciple understands as they really are the arising and the passing away, the attractiveness and the danger, and the deliverance from the five groups of clinging, he is called an Ariyan disciple who is a Stream-winner, not liable to states of woe,\[1\] assured of final enlightenment."

# Notes

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The Stream-winner (*sotaapanna*) is assured of enlightenment and will not be reborn more than seven times, or in any state lower than the human. See also [SN 55.24](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-55-24/), n. 7.

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