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== Srimad-Bhagavatam = | <div class="section" id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div> | ||
=== SB Canto 2 | <div class="sub_section" id="SB_Canto_2" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="SB" link="SB 2.5.10" link_text="SB 2.5.10, Purport"> | ||
<div class="heading">Similarly, the material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.5.10|SB 2.5.10, Purport]]:''' "The frog in the well" logic illustrates that a frog residing in the atmosphere and boundary of a well cannot imagine the length and breadth of the gigantic ocean. Such a frog, when informed of the gigantic length and breadth of the ocean, first of all does not believe that there is such an ocean, and if someone assures him that factually there is such a thing, the frog then begins to measure it by imagination by means of pumping its belly as far as possible, with the result that the tiny abdomen of the frog bursts and the poor frog dies without any experience of the actual ocean. Similarly, the material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog.</div> | ||
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== Conversations and Morning Walks | <div class="section" id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2></div> | ||
=== 1976 Conversations and Morning Walks | <div class="sub_section" id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="Con" link="Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C."> | ||
<div class="heading">As soon as you speak to them about Atlantic Ocean, they say, "Oh, it is impossible." Froggish brain.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]:''' | ||
Prabhupāda: Just suppose here are stones, there are pearls. You cannot imagine. | Prabhupāda: Just suppose here are stones, there are pearls. You cannot imagine. | ||
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Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Logic. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a student. | Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Logic. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a student. | ||
Prabhupāda: Yes, logician.</ | Prabhupāda: Yes, logician.</div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:15, 4 October 2009
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 2
Similarly, the material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog.
SB 2.5.10, Purport: "The frog in the well" logic illustrates that a frog residing in the atmosphere and boundary of a well cannot imagine the length and breadth of the gigantic ocean. Such a frog, when informed of the gigantic length and breadth of the ocean, first of all does not believe that there is such an ocean, and if someone assures him that factually there is such a thing, the frog then begins to measure it by imagination by means of pumping its belly as far as possible, with the result that the tiny abdomen of the frog bursts and the poor frog dies without any experience of the actual ocean. Similarly, the material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
As soon as you speak to them about Atlantic Ocean, they say, "Oh, it is impossible." Froggish brain.
Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.:
Prabhupāda: Just suppose here are stones, there are pearls. You cannot imagine.
Hari-śauri: Lying on the roadside. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...Western scientists, philosophers, they are all Dr. Frogs. They simply calculating three feet water, that's all. As soon as you speak to them about Atlantic Ocean, they say, "Oh, it is impossible." Froggish brain. [break] ...word has come, kūpa-māṇḍūkya-nyāya, the frog in the well.
Hari-śauri: Prabhupāda, is that example also given in the Bhāgavatam? Frog in the well? Sometimes you use all these different examples, and they are all there in the Bhāgavatam. I was just wondering if this frog in the well was also there.
Prabhupāda: No.
Hari-śauri: You use very graphic examples; they're very perfect.
Prabhupāda: No, my Guru Mahārāja used to use to place so many examples, (laughs) I do not know all of them. No, there is a book, Nyāya-śāstra, logic. You'll find all these things.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is that the Nīti-śāstra?
Prabhupāda: Nīti-śāstra is different. This is Nyāya-śāstra.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Logic. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a student.
Prabhupāda: Yes, logician.