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Namah Facing the Hostile Forces

and relinquish our well-being. Illnesses or Awareness of the hostile forces with
accidents are often an inevitable consequence Integral Yoga
of their influence and for most victims, it is
an unconscious process. As soon as one embarks on the path of
Integral Yoga, one becomes more sensitive to
How they come these malevolent influences. We are striving
to attune to a totally new level of vibration
The adverse forces like to prey on the growing and so the distinction can more easily be
soul and look for any opportunities to infiltrate made. We become more conscious of them
the being. They relish the challenge and and learn to recognise the difference.
hunt for openings. Wherever there is a
chink in the armour, they will enter. So, it However, most people practising Integral
is through unknowingly calling them that Yoga are not the finished article, far from it.
we subconsciously invite their presence. The Their consciousness still jags back repeatedly
slightest aperture is often sufficient for these to the surface and relinquishes whatever
forces to intrude and create mischief. impetus has already been harnessed for the
inside. There is still a surface personality, rife
with duality, division and distortion. This
invariably leaves cracks for these forces to
enter. The growing soul Is always vulnerable
and the consequences of succumbing to their
influence are much more dire. The potential
fall is more calamitous.

Anyone practising this yoga has to endure
them. In the early hours, before sunrise,
these malevolent entities used to congregate
The Mother, when asked why such attacks and visit me as I was lying in bed, leaving a
keep on recurring, even when one is successful cloud of depression or throngs of stressful
in driving out the same force, replied: thoughts. The time was perfect for these
forces as there was little energy and capacity
“Because something was left inside. We have inside at the time for me to push them away.
said that the force can attack only when there They worked by surprise and at times it was
is something which responds in the nature — overwhelming. Clearly, something had been
however slight it may be. There is a kind of left inside for them to enter.
affinity, something corresponding, there is a
disorder or an imperfection which attracts the Quite a few years’ back, when I was just
adverse force by responding to it. So, if the attack starting on Integral Yoga, late one night,
comes, you must keep perfectly quiet and send while I was staying at a guest house by the
it back, but it does not necessarily follow that shore here in Pondicherry, there was a temple
you have got rid of that small part in you which parade passing below my window. I was
allows the attack to come (1).” lying in bed at the time and on the threshold

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