Why is a sotāpanna defined as unable to take another teacher and unable to commit matricide?
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Among the descriptions of stream-enterer (sotāpanna) is one which says that they is not capable of committing [six wrong actions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sot%C4%81panna#Six_actions_that_cannot_be_committed) :
> - Murdering one's own mother.
- Murdering one's own father.
- Murdering an arahant.
- Maliciously injuring the Buddha to the point of drawing blood.
- Deliberately creating a schism in the monastic community.
- Taking another teacher.
Question:
1. **Do the scriptures and/or commentators say something** about the significance of this particular selection of actions? Why are these (and not some other) actions the ones which cannot be committed?
2. Is it suggested hereby that **creating a schism** in the monastic community **is as grave an action** as patricide, matricide or murder of a holy and peaceful person?
3. Does it also mean that taking another teacher **is like wounding one's teacher**, which is as terrible an offence as patricide, matricide, murder etc?
Asked by Krishnaraj Rao
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Sep 13, 2015, 11:23 AM
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