An idea from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Even near the end, old habits push stray thoughts through the gaps, and you handle them like the first troubles. If you want nothing even from your highest insight, a state called the cloud of virtue arises. Trouble and binding action stop.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patañjali

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