Why do negative attributes – Anger, lust , Restlessness – increase during initial phases of Prayer/Meditation/Sadhna? Find answers here

Why do negative attributes,particularly anger,lust and attraction for world things rather increase (instead of decreasing as is expected) when a seeker starts moving on the path of Prayers/Sadhna /Bhakti/ bowing down to that One supreme ? Isn’t this a major contradiction ? Find amswers here