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Madhudviṣa: There was one question in class this morning about Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, and in your Bhāgavatam you say that this is the smallest universe. So I questioned whether if this is the smallest universe, and Jayapatāka said that in other universes there's more volumes of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, would that mean that Kṛṣṇa manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?Prabhupāda: Yes. He is unlimited. Why do you limit?Madhudviṣa: So is the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyāsadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?Prabhupāda: Yes, same process.Madhudviṣa: Just it's more expanded.Prabhupāda: There are many demigods. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam (BS 5.33). Everything is ananta. Just like here you cannot count how many. Here, this much space, if I ask you, "Count how many grasses are there," you cannot do it. Everywhere. You count in this field how many plants are there. You cannot do it. So similarly other planet, other, other... There are unlimited fields. You cannot count. Why you try to count it, "How many universes? How many devotees? How many...?" That is foolishness. It is not possible. Wherever you start, everything is unlimited. Can you count how many atoms are there, atomic? That is your limitation. Therefore I say "frog philosophy." The limited wants to study the unlimited. That is frog philosophy. The frog is thinking, "Eh? Three feet. All right, four feet. All right, five feet." He cannot think unlimited, because he is frog. So don't imitate the frog. Take it as it is stated in the śāstra. Then it is all right. So what we are getting from this banana garden?Jayapatāka: Banana.Prabhupāda: Getting unlimited? (laughter) What do you do with the bananas?Jayapatāka: Offer them to the Deity. (indistinct) (break)Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's better path here.Indian devotee: (Bengali)Prabhupāda: (Bengali)Jayapatāka: See the mango?Prabhupāda: Where is that mango?Jayapatāka: It's about ten feet high.Prabhupāda: Oh, that's all. (break) How many years it will take?Jayapatāka: Take another two, three years.Prabhupāda: Oh.
Madhudviṣa: There was one question in class this morning about Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, and in your Bhāgavatam you say that this is the smallest universe. So I questioned whether if this is the smallest universe, and Jayapatāka said that in other universes there's more volumes of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, would that mean that Kṛṣṇa manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
 
Prabhupāda: Yes. He is unlimited. Why do you limit?
 
Madhudviṣa: So is the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyāsadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
 
Prabhupāda: Yes, same process.
 
Madhudviṣa: Just it's more expanded.
 
Prabhupāda: There are many demigods. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam (BS 5.33). Everything is ananta. Just like here you cannot count how many. Here, this much space, if I ask you, "Count how many grasses are there," you cannot do it. Everywhere. You count in this field how many plants are there. You cannot do it. So similarly other planet, other, other . . . there are unlimited fields. You cannot count. Why you try to count it, "How many universes? How many devotees? How many . . .?" That is foolishness. It is not possible. Wherever you start, everything is unlimited. Can you count how many atoms are there, atomic? That is your limitation. Therefore I say "frog philosophy." The limited wants to study the unlimited. That is frog philosophy. The frog is thinking, "Eh? Three feet. All right, four feet. All right, five feet." He cannot think unlimited, because he is frog. So don't imitate the frog. Take it as it is stated in the śāstra. Then it is all right. So what we are getting from this banana garden?
 
Jayapatāka: Banana.
 
Prabhupāda: Getting unlimited? (laughter) What do you do with the bananas?
 
Jayapatāka: Offer them to the Deity . . . (indistinct) . . . (break)
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"The limited wants to study the unlimited. That is frog philosophy"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Can you count how many atoms are there, atomic? That is your limitation. Therefore I say "frog philosophy." The limited wants to study the unlimited. That is frog philosophy. The frog is thinking, "Eh? Three feet. All right, four feet. All right, five feet." He cannot think unlimited, because he is frog. So don't imitate the frog. Take it as it is stated in the śāstra. Then it is all right.


Madhudviṣa: There was one question in class this morning about Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, and in your Bhāgavatam you say that this is the smallest universe. So I questioned whether if this is the smallest universe, and Jayapatāka said that in other universes there's more volumes of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, would that mean that Kṛṣṇa manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?

Prabhupāda: Yes. He is unlimited. Why do you limit?

Madhudviṣa: So is the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyāsadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?

Prabhupāda: Yes, same process.

Madhudviṣa: Just it's more expanded.

Prabhupāda: There are many demigods. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam (BS 5.33). Everything is ananta. Just like here you cannot count how many. Here, this much space, if I ask you, "Count how many grasses are there," you cannot do it. Everywhere. You count in this field how many plants are there. You cannot do it. So similarly other planet, other, other . . . there are unlimited fields. You cannot count. Why you try to count it, "How many universes? How many devotees? How many . . .?" That is foolishness. It is not possible. Wherever you start, everything is unlimited. Can you count how many atoms are there, atomic? That is your limitation. Therefore I say "frog philosophy." The limited wants to study the unlimited. That is frog philosophy. The frog is thinking, "Eh? Three feet. All right, four feet. All right, five feet." He cannot think unlimited, because he is frog. So don't imitate the frog. Take it as it is stated in the śāstra. Then it is all right. So what we are getting from this banana garden?

Jayapatāka: Banana.

Prabhupāda: Getting unlimited? (laughter) What do you do with the bananas?

Jayapatāka: Offer them to the Deity . . . (indistinct) . . . (break)