These are virtues such as hostility, anger (due to fear), meanness, but also arrogance, pride, not saying what I think, (self)sabotage and perversion.

The demon projects psychically, is egocentric, is heavy of mind and experiences the pressure of existence, and that prevents a good reception of self-knowledge.

We all have a deity and a demon within us. It is about training the inner instrument in such a way on a healthy (read dharmic or divine) value pattern, that the mind becomes peaceful. Why peaceful? A mind that is aligned with how īśvara intended transactional reality (vyāvahārika) to be, will be able to understand itself as equal to īśvara (as brahman, the truth of both and īśvara).

After all, the dharma of īśvara is the key to the gate to understanding the knowledge of vedānta.

Bhagavad Gītā chapter 16 contrasts the daivi sampat with the asura sampat, demonic values ​​such as anger.

Here it is said that the one who lives the dharma is a divine being, ripe for the self-knowledge that leads to freedom. One who lives a demonic life will suffer karmically and will have to continue to struggle in saṁsāra.