"The action of the hostile forces is a special intervention creating violent inner conflicts, abnormal depressions, thoughts and impulses of a kind which can be easily recognised as suggestions e.g. leaving the Ashram, abandoning the yoga, revolt against the Divine, suggestions of calamity and catastrophe apparently irresistible, irrational impulses and so on. An attack might also encourage us to question, reason away, doubt or deny prior spiritual experience.
Many worldly people are constantly attacked, influenced or even possessed by hostile forces without being aware of it. However, through yoga we can become immune to hostile forces in our own inner worlds whilst moving in the outer world. Irrespective of our individual efforts, hostile forces will continue to exist in the outer world, because our collective level of consciousness is relatively low.
*They will continue to operate until a future stage of the evolution of consciousness*.
-- *Sri Aurobindo*
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