Anāgāmin and Arhat of the Fourth Fruit

When one has no greed toward sense objects, one is a third-fruit person (Anāgāmin), who has already eliminated the manifest activity of the afflictions of greed and hatred. When one has no attachment toward sense objects, one is a fourth-fruit arhat, who has eliminated the manas's self-grasping and the craving and craving-love for the three realms. Before the third fruit, no matter how tranquil the mind is, it is only suppressing afflictions, not eliminating them; the afflictions are hidden within the mind and rarely manifest, but when a major matter arises, they certainly cannot be concealed—the afflictions will definitely manifest and become active. Those who can truly and comprehensively examine their own afflictions are extremely few, so people often think they no longer have afflictions, or think they have already attained the second fruit, when in fact they are still very far from the second fruit.