| "The frog in the well" logic |
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"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.
[Srila Prabhupada from Srimad Bhagavatam 2.5.10] |