Category:A Frog's Calculation
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category exposes the inherent flaws in empiric science and mental speculation when attempting to understand the Supreme Lord. Using the analogy of a frog in a well trying to calculate the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean, the teachings illustrate how limited human senses cannot measure the infinite. In dismantling this arrogant approach, Śrīla Prabhupāda proves that true knowledge of God descends through authoritative revelation, rather than ascending through tiny, froggish calculations.
- The Illusion of Measurement: Material scientists and speculators err by attempting to study the infinite Supreme Lord using their own limited, finite standards.
- The Kūpa-maṇḍūka-nyāya Analogy: The frog in the three-foot well simply cannot conceptualize the Atlantic Ocean, just as a conditioned soul cannot conceptualize God's potencies.
- The Flaw of Empiric Science: Western scientists and philosophers mistakenly rely on direct sense perception, dismissing the inconceivable spiritual reality as impossible.
- The Necessity of Revelation: Because the Absolute Truth is beyond sensory calculation, one must receive knowledge directly from Kṛṣṇa and His authorized representatives.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Exposes the Folly of a Frog's Calculation.
Pages in category "A Frog's Calculation"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A frog lives within the well, he's calculating the length & breadth of Atlantic Ocean. How it is possible? We are the frogs in the well. We have got limited capacity to understand. Our senses are limited. We are thinking Krsna, or God, He is also limited
- Adhoksaja means beyond our sense perception. Therefore we have to know Krsna from Krsna, not by our speculation. Krsna may . . . that is frog philosophy. Frog philosophy. He's simply calculating with reference to his teeny well, three feet
- All these rascal scientists, they are all frog in the well. They have got little calculation of this planet, and they have no information of... There are so many millions of planets
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- He is calculating in that way, "Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." But Atlantic Ocean is beyond his conception. So these are all Dr. Frog's philosophy. Yes. And the so-called philosophers, they are Dr. Frog
- How vast (the Atlantic Ocean)? Is it double the size of this well? (the frog in well) - "Oh no, much much larger," his friend replied. "How much larger? Ten times the size?" In this way the frog went on calculating
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- That frog philosophy is going on. Dr. Frog. He's simply calculating the well, that's all. "How there can be Atlantic Ocean?" That is frog philosophy
- The attempt of the tillers in the paddy field to understand the cosmic manifestation and the cause behind such wonderful work can be compared to the endeavor of the frog in the well to calculate the measurement of the Pacific Ocean
- The frog is calculating the length and breadth of Atlantic Ocean, keeping itself in the well. Similarly, these rascals are frogs in the well, they are calculating the estimation of the length and breadth of Atlantic Ocean and claiming themselves as God
- The frog is perpetually within the well, and if somebody informs him that there is another big span of water, Atlantic Ocean, he simply calculates that "It may be a little more than this well, little more than this well"
- The froggish calculator may raise the objection that if the Absolute is unknowable even by the controlling deities of speech, mind and ego, then why should the devotees be so interested in this unknown object
- The mental speculator may be called Dr. Frog. The story is that a frog in a three-foot well wanted to calculate the length and breadth of the Atlantic Ocean on the basis of his knowledge of his own well. But it was an impossible task for Dr. Frog
- Those who are dull materialists, their brain is congested with so much rubbish thing, they cannot understand that it is through the bodily effulgence of the Lord the potential manifestation is this cosmic manifestation. They will think that like Dr. Frog
- Those who are not Krsna conscious, they do not know. They are frogs of the well, simply calculating, "This three feet water, space, is my habitation." And when he's given information of the Atlantic Ocean, he does not believe
- Those who are researching, they cannot understand Krsna. They understand Krsna as ordinary human being, maybe little learned. That's all. The Dr. Frog's calculation of Atlantic Ocean
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- We have explained several times. Kupa-manduka-nyaya. The frog within the well, he is calculating the dimension of Pacific Ocean. So by this dog, frog philosophical way, we can, we cannot understand what is God
- 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
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- You know that frog philosophy? He's calculating the length and breadth of Atlantic Ocean from the small well. Somebody's saying there is Atlantic Ocean, very great, and the frog has never seen the Atlantic Ocean. He is always in the well
- Your scientists and your appreciator, all, they are like tiny dwarfs. What do they know about the universal affair? That is their fault. They are so small . . . That, the same example, Dr. Frog, calculating Atlantic Ocean. This is the fault