King Yadu continued listening to the Divine words of Dattatreya Ji. Seeing a spider, Dattatreya Ji quoted that the spider was his eighteenth Guru. The king felt puzzled. Dattatreya Ji told about the life cycle of spiders. He said that the spider produced long threads from the secretions it secreted. The spider lived in the web it had built. After completing its life span, it consumed the threads of the web and died. Dattatreya Ji learned to avoid preserving the concept of ‘me and mine’ in life. The spider built its web-world, enjoyed and suffered in the web and, even died eating the web. It limited its scope to consider the world as its family. It taught Dattatreya Ji the notion of Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam.
(Even the poison of grudges and misery intoxicates us and makes us suffer.)
Then, Dattatreya Ji talked about the innocence of a baby. He was his nineteenth Guru. He said that the mother took care of all the requirements of the baby, though the baby could not express his needs in a full-fledged manner. Mother knew the needs and even loved him dearly. When the baby cried, Mother knew that the baby needed milk. She breast-fed him, tapped at his back gently, and he burped, slipped into a deep sleep. The mother placed the baby in the cradle and resumed the household chores. As the baby cried again, the mother ceased all her jobs and rushed to the baby, lifted him in her arms, and kissed him. She felt to tidy up the baby’s clothes. She cleaned the place, patted on his back, sang lullabies; the baby slipped into a deep sleep.
Dattatreya Ji insisted the king repeat Lord’s name and, He would take care of all his needs, leaving the king as a blissful being.
King Yadu expressed his agony of unusual blandness while repeating the Lord’s name like parrots. Dattatreya Ji smiled and gave a beautiful illustration. He said that if a man spread a few seeds randomly on the soil and then forgot to take care of the seeds. Nature would take care of them. The Spring season would help the seeds to germinate. He asked the king to repeat the name like parrots; the strength embedded in the name would unfurl.
Dattatreya Ji recollected an incident about a hunter sharpening the arrowhead over a rock. He was his twentieth Guru. One day, a hunter was sharpening the arrowhead over a rock. He worked with focus. After a while, a procession passed by him. He didn’t stir his eyeballs to see the glories of the wedding procession. Dattatreya Ji came and asked him if he had seen the king of the province walking. The hunter couldn’t recollect any incident which had happened while he worked. Dattatreya Ji even asked about the procession. The hunter could not remember any loud bands of trumpets. Though the person was neither blind nor deaf, he could not notice any event while he concentrated on his job.
Dattatreya Ji said that utmost concentration was important.
The tasks and even meditation should be such that grand processions do not stir us. We may think that it is important to move our limbs for doing tasks. But, in reality, once a person attains the State, Lord does all the jobs through him and for him.