In Sanskrit there is a logical conclusion, Dr. Frog. A frog within the well. You know, well, a three-feet circumference, and there is a frog. Another frog friend comes and informs the frog in the well, “My dear friend, today I have seen a very big span of water, Pacific Ocean.” So the frog in the well, he considers that Pacific Ocean may be four feet. “My water is three feet, so Pacific Ocean may be four feet.” So, he replied to his friend, “Is that Pacific Ocean four feet?” “No, no it is very big.” “All right, five feet?” “No, no, it is very big.” “All right, six feet!” (laughter) So in this way, if we speculate about God—one feet more—God may be little stronger than me, or richer than me, little. Or more rich, more rich. In this way you cannot speculate. What will he know, the frog, about the Pacific Ocean. Similarly, all our philosophical speculation about God, is the speculation of the frog within the well. Because our brain cannot accommodate what is greatness. So, in that way we cannot understand what is God. The process should be attempted.
The process is bhakti, devotion. As it is advised in the Bhagavad-gita, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. Now the present civilization, mistake of the present civilization is that they are accepting this body (to be) everything. After this body is finished—big, big philosophers, big, big professors, I have talked with… I was talking with one professor, Mr. Kotovsky, in Moscow. He is in charge of a big department. He said, “Swamiji, after finishing this body, everything is finished. There is nothing more.” Just see, and he is a great professor. He has no knowledge that after finishing this body, there is another body. We are going to accept another body, not that after death, everything is finished. This conception is going on very strong, but this is a great mistake. That is being explained here by Krsna. Dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir [Bg. 2.13]. This is the first state to understand God. What is the nature of God. This is the first state. That I am spirit soul, part and parcel of God. If I study myself as sample of God, a little sample of God, then you can understand God. Just like you take a drop of Pacific Ocean water, and you chemically analyze the constituents of that drop of water, then you can understand what is the constituent ingredients in the Pacific Ocean. You can understand. The difference is, as I have already explained, God and we, individual souls, are of the same quality. The quality is not different.
Just like we have got creative power, God has got also creative power, but by your creative power you can manufacture a big airplane or a sputnik to fly in the sky, but God’s creative power, millions and trillions of planets are floating in the sky. Just like the sun. You see every day, the sun is there in the sky, and it is lying in one corner of the sky, but this one planet itself is fourteen hundred thousand bigger than this planet. This planet is only a teeny, small planet in consideration of other planets. So we cannot know even what are there in this planet. So many things are unknown. So all these planets are floating. That’s a fact. So that is the difference between God and me. I can create a small aeroplane, and I can take the credit that our science is so much advanced that we don’t care for God. No, you cannot do, sir. You cannot manufacture a planet. That is not in your power. Similarly, there are so many things. You have creative power, God has got creative power, but your creation and God’s creation there is vast difference. So this is the understanding of God. So God is great. How great? Nobody is equal to Him, nobody is above Him. Everyone is down. This is the conception of God. So God is eternal, I am also eternal. God is within this universe, therefore the universe is working, and because I am within this universe, this body is working. It is very easy to understand. If you simply study…
Public Lecture
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Delhi, November 10, 1971
pamho agtACBSP, PAVITROPANA EKADASI KI JAI
The truth is very simple for dr frog we have to leave these bodies, we can’t keep it forever, we can use it for a short period of time but we have to leave it because they are not our property otherwise we could keep it. The bad and the good is compare accordingly to the way how we use it,if we use it to do mental speculation like dr frog then we are finished but if we use it to not waste even a fraction of a second in the service of SRI GURU GAURANGA there are not gaps anymore and the fish is properly situtated in his original abode.
One must been qualified to think like that demon called usana the leader of the asura in the heaven sukracharya, although he is a asura he is a very clever thinker said SRILA PRABHUPADA in the SRIMAD BAGHAVAD GITA otherwise one get more trapped in his weak and insignificant mental speculation better to surrender because SRI KRSNA is everything future present etc..
So many lives already gone through mental speculation and we are still here fighting with is not this therefore the way must be harenama eva kevalam to use the factor time to get saranagati by sravana kirtana smarana pujana sakhijana atma nivedana and not keeping doing mental speculation like all the mayayapahrita jnana like kesava bharati dhanudhar godas etc.. I’m this I’m that but you have to leave all this about what is not this I mean to leave this body by stopping to use it for other purporses then Krsna seva. You have to leave this body because you are not this body is not yours you can’t speculate eternally through this rotten and temporary body machine, this is the truth for dr frog and all his blind followers.
agtSP ys haribol