Rishi Chintan (ॠषि चिंतन)
Our own troubles, Our own Creation
A spider spins its own web and remains entangled in it. At some point it starts to think that its web is its confinement and laments being trapped in it. However, when it realizes the root of the problem, it dismantles the web which it created, gulps down the threads and sets itself free. As a result, the spider experiences the joy of freedom by removing all the barriers responsible for its miseries.
In the same way, every individual creates his own cocoon, his own little world. He alone creates this world with no outside interferences and influences. The hindering and facilitating circumstances imposed by the outside world, they are just temporary and keep appearing and disappearing like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Translated from - Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya’s work
Jivan Devta ki sadhana-aradhana 2:3.1