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Jump like frogs

Expressions researched:
"jumping with the frogs" |"jump around like frogs" |"jump like frogs" |"frogs jumped" |"frog came out from the coal and jumped" |

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13

Some boys went to the waterfalls and crossed over the river, jumping with the frogs, and when they saw their own reflections on the water they would laugh.
SB 10.12.7-11, Translation: All the boys would be differently engaged. Some boys blew their flutes, and others blew bugles made of horn. Some imitated the buzzing of the bumblebees, and others imitated the voice of the cuckoo. Some boys imitated flying birds by running after the birds' shadows on the ground, some imitated the beautiful movements and attractive postures of the swans, some sat down with the ducks, sitting silently, and others imitated the dancing of the peacocks. Some boys attracted young monkeys in the trees, some jumped into the trees, imitating the monkeys, some made faces as the monkeys were accustomed to do, and others jumped from one branch to another. Some boys went to the waterfalls and crossed over the river, jumping with the frogs, and when they saw their own reflections on the water they would laugh. They would also condemn the sounds of their own echoes. In this way, all the cowherd boys used to play with Kṛṣṇa, who is the source of the Brahman effulgence for jñānīs desiring to merge into that effulgence, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for devotees who have accepted eternal servitorship, and who for ordinary persons is but another ordinary child. The cowherd boys, having accumulated the results of pious activities for many lives, were able to associate in this way with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How can one explain their great fortune?

SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)

SB 10.18.15, Translation: They would sometimes jump around like frogs, sometimes play various jokes, sometimes ride in swings and sometimes imitate monarchs.

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead

When, out of fear, the frogs jumped into the water, the boys immediately dove in after them.
Krsna Book 12: When a monkey showed its face and teeth, a boy imitated and showed his teeth to the monkey. Some of the boys played with the frogs on the bank of the Yamunā, and when, out of fear, the frogs jumped into the water, the boys immediately dove in after them, and they would come out of the water when they saw their own shadows and stand imitating, making caricatures and laughing. They would also go to an empty well and make loud sounds, and when the echo came back, they would call it ill names and laugh.

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

I read long, long ago that in the coal mine, while they were digging coals, one frog came out from the coal and jumped over and died.
Lecture on BG 7.11-12 -- Bombay, February 25, 1974: The fish, they have got very good sensation power. Means two miles away, they get sensation there is enemy, "Somebody's coming to eat me." These are all described in the Bhāgavatam. The frogs, they can become in samādhi, situated in samādhi, for many, many years. So these things are not very great things, to have samādhi, to have yogic principles. Even in the animals you will find. I read long, long ago that in the coal mine, while they were digging coals, one frog came out from the coal and jumped over and died. That means the frog was buried within the lump of coal for many, many thousands of years, and he was keeping samādhi. Kumbhaka, kumbhaka-yoga they know. So these are not very extraordinary things. Because after all, living entity is eternal, does not die.
Page Title:Jump like frogs
Compiler:Laksmipriya
Created:22 of Dec, 2008
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=2, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:4