FROG PHILOSOPHY ABOUT GOD

FROG PHILOSOPHY ABOUT GOD 

Srila Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON says like this:

We should be very careful not to fall prey to frog philosophy. 

Once there was a frog in a well, and upon hearing of the Atlantic Ocean from a friend, he asked,

“Oh what is this Atlantic Ocean?”

“it is a vast body of water,” his friend replied.

“How vast? Is it double the size of this well?”

“Oh no-much larger.”

“How much larger? Ten times the size?”

In this way the frog went on calculating. But how could he ever understand the depths and far reaches of the great ocean? Our faculties, experience, and powers of speculation are always limited. We can give rise only to such frog philosophy.

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