I have seen my friends yearn for a spiritual guru in their lives
Always when they were ready a light did appear to reduce strife
I on the other hand couldnt seem to wait for radiant appearance
How could there be someone to whom I have to be subservient?
Thus my guru didnt appear for a long time, even though I waited
Until one day I was told that my development was quite low rated
Not for me the human form of a guide, but one of animal origin
It started with denizens that I live with, eight legged arachnids
I dont dust away the cobwebs knowing they have equal right to stay
Thus my dusty rooms are now decorated by tapestry of delicate splay
Their origins are in the insect's body not needing any other material
Thus they build as they please and worry not about location exterior
I have since spent many hours observing their proclivity to weave
My meditation has been on their perseverance as their strands cleave
They teach me about being patient and not submitting to a deadline
Because the mills of god grind exceedingly slow but still quite fine
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This has reference to your composition entitled “ Arachnid Advice”. You have a-la-Robert Bruce, mentioned that the activities of the spider have taught you the importance of perseverance and patience in the scheme of things. This is very true and it certainly needs a very observant and developed mind for a person to learn significant lessons from the functioning of even the lowest forms of God’s creations.
However the lowly spider has been mentioned in our scriptures to explain a very lofty idea about the creation and experiencing of the external world, as seen by us in the three states of existence, namely, “jagrata”, “nidra” and “susupti”. These three Sanskrit words would loosely translate as the waking, sleeping and the dreamless sleep state.
Advaita stipulates that only the one exists without a second and any experience of duality, in the first two states of existances mentioned above are merely ephemeral, or to quote the Sanskrit equivalent are mithya, as opposed to the real state of nondual existence, experienced in the dreamless state, which alone is real, or satya.
When trying to explain the paradigm of the dual state, which appears so real, when we are actually experiencing it in the jagrat and nidra states, the scriptures say that this apparent dual existence has no true substance, because like the web of the spider, which it creates from within its own body, and which has no independent existence of its own, the world of duality, however solid or substantial it may appear, is really a creation of the one Self or Brahman, and this duality has no independent existence of its own apart from the Self, very much like the spider’s web. The scriptures say the duality that we experience is “aagantuka”, which means something that comes and goes, as can be seen from the fact that all experience of duality “comes” with the waking and the nidra states and “goes” away in the susupthi or dreamless state, when we are conscious of no duality whatsoever.
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