The Anāgāmin (Third Fruit) and the Arhat (Fourth Fruit)

When one has no greed toward sense objects, one is a third-fruit person (anāgāmin), who has already eradicated the manifest activities of the afflictions of greed and hatred. When one has no attachment to sense objects, one is an arhat of the fourth fruit, who has eradicated the self-grasping of the manas and the craving for the three realms. Before the third fruit, no matter how tranquil the mind is, it is merely suppressing the afflictions, not eradicating them; the afflictions are hidden within the mind and rarely manifest, but when a major event arises, they certainly cannot be hidden—the afflictions will inevitably manifest and become active. Those who can truly and comprehensively examine their own afflictions are extremely few, so people often believe they no longer have any afflictions, or believe they have attained the second fruit (sakṛdāgāmin), when in fact they are still very far from the second fruit.