Why do devotees in demoniac bodies like Bali and Vritrasura act like other demons and attack the demigods?

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why would human bodies like putrasur and madhimaharaj attack the devatas and try to conquer the heavenly planets why do they act just like other beings answer at one level we can see this as the lord’s leela the lord wants these devotees who are in demoniac bodies to act in these ways to demonstrate the transcendental nature of devotion of pure devotion that means if right from they birth itself they are entirely acting as devotees as Prahlad Maharaj does then actually they are not in any way belong they are not having anything like the demoniac people at all and they don’t belong to them but the lord demonstrates that is also one way of demonstrating the potency of devotion that by the desire of a great devotee like Narag Muni even from a demoniac home a great devotee like Prahlad Maharaj can appear that’s one way the potency of bhakti is demonstrated another way can be that those who are acting as demons but suddenly some tremendous crisis comes in their life at that time their devotional consciousness becomes manifested and that devotional consciousness is what rescues them at that moment of crisis so with respect to with respect to Bali Maharaj Vishwanathji Kathakur in his commentary says that Bali Maharaj had heard about the principles of devotion of pure devotion to lord Vishnu from his grandfather Prahlad Maharaj but we see that when Prahlad Maharaj offers prayers to Vamanadev one of the prayers he says is that this Bali was getting infatuated intoxicated by wealth and opulence and because of that intoxication he was progressing towards the darkest destinations and you my dear lord by removing that intoxication of wealth have saved him from those dark destinations and this way you have bestowed a great mercy on him so here what Prahlad Maharaj is saying is that the lord’s taking away wealth is a mercy of the lord on Bali Maharaj and that Bali Maharaj was able to accept that mercy that when the wealth is taken away, there are so many people when their wealth is taken away they lose their wealth they can become atheists, they can become anti-theists they can be active campaigners against god so that didn’t happen to Bali Maharaj, when that crisis came how was he able to turn towards the lord because Prahlad Maharaj had given the devotion to some scholars and because of the demoniac nature they were temporarily covered but once that crisis once he got darshan of lord Vishnu coming as Vamanadev and then the moment of crisis came at that time whatever Prahlad Maharaj had told had taught that manifested in his heart and that is the glory of Bhakti that Bhakti Devi can manifest her mercy in any moment and miraculously transform a person and thereby transform, change the trajectory that the person is going to take so even before this Bali Maharaj is we could say an honourable demon honourable demon means that when Indira comes with a truce proposal the other demons want to kill the unarmed Indira but Bali Maharaj says no he has come for truce, let us have talk with him and similarly when there is conversation going on there is an angry conversation going on between Indira and Bali Maharaj when the war is going on and that time Indira gets upper hand so Bali Maharaj speaks philosophy and he says actually it is time that is influencing and now the time is favourable and therefore because of the influence of time I will fall and he will live so we see Bali Maharaj is not maternally illiterate he also has his knowledge he is Dharmic that is why he is serving Shukracharya but from the level of Dharma to the level of Bhakti relief happens through the crisis but it is not a crisis of losing all the wealth he has it is not a crisis that impels the devotion or that starts the initiates the devotion rather it is the samskara that started the devotion already and that particular circumstance triggered it caused it to manifest for the other dramatically transformational force to do it so the similar thing happened with Ritrasur so Ritrasur had been cursed by Parvati so Ritrasur took a demon’s body so he took a demon’s body and that demoniac body he acted according to the demoniac nature but whatever devotional and even then also when he was acting as a demon he was acting gallantly he fought with the devatas and the devatas fought back and his demoniac associates fled so he spoke gallantly as a Kshatriya calling them back don’t be coward don’t run away like this so he was a gallant warrior in his own way so he was acting like a acting like a demon but then the devotional samskaras not just samskaras lot of advancements darshan of lord Narayan directly so all those devotional credits were there in his environment and finally when he came in front of Indra and he saw Indra in the ashram that was going to be the cause of his death at that time his devotional nature manifested so and then he spoke extraordinarily Vyaad Akshaya Maa Karamkara just as a baby bird longs for his mother to come my lord I long for you beautiful verses are there verses that signify a purely devoted heart to the lord and that demonstrates the glory of bhakti that once bhakti is performed then the juhi fells forever stay and in the right circumstances although from the external perspective those circumstances are very wrong first of all to be in a demoniac body itself is very wrong secondly to lose to be in the risk of losing one’s wealth as happened with Bali Maharaj or to be in the risk of losing one’s life as happened with Raja extremely bad circumstances Bhakti can Bhakti will be preserved even in bad circumstances and even in the worst of circumstances Bhakti can resurface and rescue the person from the danger and help the person to attain most glorious estimation of the complete mercy of Krishna and ultimately return back to his kingdom which Bali Maharaj attained in a later time but the point is he became a pure devotee and the lord came and became his lord keeper so it was as good as his abode being the spiritual world only because the lord is directly there so the demons act as per the arrangement of the lord and through that whatever devotional samskaras they have had earlier or devotional kailas they have had they demonstrate at the right time to exemplify the imperishability of bhakti and the glory of bhakti and it will rescue the person from even the worst of circumstances Thank you Question from Shivam Guru