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What is the spiritual meaning of a dream where a persistent, fluffy white kitten refuses to leave your room, and does this symbolize the need for a “baby cat” attitude of total surrender, especially in the context of struggling with lower nature resistances and relapses? πŸŒ€πŸ¦„πŸ’€πŸˆβ˜οΈπŸ•ŠοΈ

In recent days, I have been struggling with the resistance of the lower nature, because of which relapses are also happening. This morning, I had a dream where a white (kind of fluffy) baby cat was chasing me and would not leave the room where I was. My sister tried her best to somehow make the cat leave the room, but the cat was very persistent in the act.

I interpreted this dream as indicating to me to take the “baby cat attitude” of the total reliance on the Divine(Surrender). Please correct me if I am wrong with the interpretation, or if something needs to be added and also kindly shed some light on these resistances of the lower nature that act as an obstacle in the sadhana. Thank you, Alok Da, for your guidance. I am truly grateful for your support and invaluable advice you have provided throughout our journey.

It is never easy to overcome the resistances of lower nature by one’s own strength. It is only possible to do so by a growing sincerity and surrender to the Divine Mother. As the sincerity grows, we are able to detect the wrong movement earlier and make the right movement of rejection. With the progress of surrender, we put our nature more and more under the influence of the Divine Mother and Her Force actively begins to act and do whatever is needed to be done to free us from the clutches of the lower nature. The most important, however, is psychic opening and surrender with a will that persists and refuses to give up regardless of resistance. Here is the great word of assurance and the Divine promise.

‘Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. I have said times without number that if a man is sincere, he will go through in spite of long delay and overwhelming difficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the Divine Grace. I have referred any number of times to the line of the Gita:

Ahaṁ tvā sarvapāpebhyo mokαΉ£ayiαΉ£yāmi mā Ε›ucaαΈ₯

“I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve.”

(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14)

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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