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There are always hostile forces that try to stop or break the experience. If they come in, it is a sign that there is something in the being, vital or physical, that either responds or is too inert to oppose.
The hostile forces do not need a cause for attacking—they attack whenever and whoever they can. What one has to see is that nothing responds or admits them. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attacks-by-the-hostile-forces#p3,p4</ref>
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It is not a fact that the Rajayogin or others are not attacked by environmental forces. Whether moksha or transformation be the aim, all are attacked—because the vital forces want neither liberation nor transformation. Only the Yogins speak of it in general terms as Rakshasi Maya or the attacks of ''kamā, krodha, lobha'',—they don't trace these things to their sources or watch how they come in—but the thing itself is known to all.
Naturally, the hostile forces are always on the watch to rob what they can of the things received by the sadhak—not that they profit by them, but they prevent them from being used to build up the divine in life.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attacks-by-the-hostile-forces#p6,p7<//ref>