Very interesting! Gopalakrishnan Good self realisation and retort like a 1st standard student for palappam used to do. Funny man #rd keep searching. I have many in the broad world and well frogs are too few. KR IRS 2822
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 10:46, gopala krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected Mr Rajaram, > > I know two frogs remaining in the well. *Yourself and Mr APS Mani. Who > is the third frog ?* > > Sir, You have started using words *cheater, liar etc. against me, Mr > Narayanaswamy and Mr Sai, the moderator. * Can you elaborate what > cheating and lying done by us in the groups. > > Because of your abuse you are barred from posting in iyer123 group, it > appears to me. Still you have not learnt. *Are you not ashamed such an > action was taken against you? * > > You claim to be well informed and former class I IRS. Is it fit to call a > moderator and other members whom you don't like as *cheater and liar*? > When will you be a civilized member? > Gopalakrishnan > > > On Tuesday, 2 August, 2022 at 09:32:15 am IST, Rajaram Krishnamurthy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Pranam > Once upon a time there was a frog who lived at the bottom of a well. To > the frog, this well where he’d lived all his life was the whole world. Then > one day the well runs dry and the bugs disappear, and the hungry frog must > hop to the top of the well to see what he can do for the end of the world. > Conquering his fear, he peers out and what does he see? Trees, flowers, > meadows, marshes, and all kinds of end-of-the-world creatures! Entranced, > the little frog ventures forth to find out more about the world outside his > world. > So too few frogs living far away thought of doing something against > nature. The rest jumped out to see the nature sso vast in front and > disappeared into the woods; but the few frogs ,feeling happily that it had > tricked one outside, saw the gloomy atmosphere in the well, as if staying > in the well, circle is so small; if going outside , the well is bereft; Ex > purohita , udyoga and life all togethers pondering over inside the black > pot. > > Frog in the well versions > > Swami Vivekananda told this story at the Parliament of the World’s > Religions on 15 September 1893. It was his second lecture at the > Parliament. He told— > > I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who > has just finished say, “Let us cease from abusing each other,” and he was > very sorry that there should be always so much variance. > > But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of > this variance. A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. > It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. > Of course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog > lost its eyes or not, but, for our story’s sake, we must take it for > granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of > all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with an energy that would do > credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a > little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came > and fell into the well. > > “Where are you from?” > > “I am from the sea.” (singapore?) > > “The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?” and he took a leap > from one side of the well to the other. > > “My friend,” said the frog of the sea, “how do you compare the sea with > your little well?” ( But USA is far bigger) > > Then the frog took another leap and asked, “Is your sea so big?” > > “What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!” > > “Well, then,” said the frog of the well, *“nothing can be bigger than my > well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn > him out.”** ( three liars in a well?)* > > That has been the difficulty all the while. > > I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the > whole world is my little well. The Christian sits in his little well and > thinks the whole world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well > and thinks that is the whole world. I have to thank you of America for the > great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little > world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to > accomplish your purpose. > *Version 01* > > It is the same story, from *The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda*, *Volume > 7*, *Conversations And Dialogues*— > > A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born > there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course > the evolutionists were not there to tell us whether the frog lost its > eyes or not, but, for our story’s sake, we must take it for granted that it > had eyes, and that it every day cleansed the waters of all the worms and > bacilli that lived in it, with an energy that would give credit to our > modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek > and fat — perhaps as much so as myself. Well, one day another frog that > lived in the sea, came and fell into the well. “`Whence are you from?’ > > “`I am from the sea.’ > “`The sea? How big is that? Is it as big as my well?’ and he took a leap > from one side of the well to the other. “`My friend,’ says the frog of the > sea, `how do you compare the sea with your little well?’ “`Then the frog > took another leap and asked; `Is your sea so big?’ “`What nonsense you > speak to compare the sea with your well.’ > “`Well, then,’ said the frog of the well, `nothing can be bigger than my > well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn > him out.’ “That has been the difficulty all the while. > “I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well, and thinking that the > world is my well. The Christian sits in his little well and the whole world > is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his well and thinks the whole world > that. I have to thank you of America for the great attempt you are making > to break down the barriers of this little world of ours, and hope that, in > the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish that purpose.” > > *Newspaper reports* > > Swami Vivekananda told this story in many of his lectures. > > *①**Des Moines, United States, November 1893*He told the story at Des > Moines, United States in November 1893. The original lecture has not been > found, but a newspaper report on the lecture was published in the *Daily > Iowa Capitol*, on 28 November 1893. There it was reported— > > The speaker was not favorably impressed with the efforts to make Hindu > converts–perverts he calls them–to Christianity, nor the converse. All > religions being true, such perversions serve no good end. The Hindu > religion the speaker claimed is not disposed to antagonize any belief; it > absorbs them. As for tolerating different beliefs, the language of the > Hindu has no word corresponding with the English word “intolerance”. That > language had a word for religion and one for sect. The former embraced all > beliefs. The conception of the latter the speaker illustrated by telling > the story of the frog, who had no idea there was any world outside the well > in which he had always lived. > > *②**Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 15 April 1894* > Swami Vivekananda’s lecture delivered at Smith College, Northampton, > Massachusetts on 15 April 1894, was reported in the Smith College Monthly > in May (1894). > On Sunday, April 15, Swami Vivekananda, the Hindoo monk whose scholarly > exposition of Brahmanism caused such favorable comment at the Congress of > Religions, spoke at Vespers. –We say much of the brotherhood of man and the > fatherhood of God, but few understand the meaning of these words. True > brotherhood is possible only when the soul draws so near to the All Father > that jealousies and petty claims of superiority must vanish because we are > so much above them. *We must take care lest we become like the frog of > the well in the old Hindoo story, who, having lived for a long time in a > small place, at last denied the existence of a larger space.* > *KR IRS 2822* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sanathana dharma and science" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sanathana-dharma-and-science/CAL5XZooF0aNMsMN0Tqu431z%3DfsiqowD2%3Dqf7Bn2rHUBO0KbVuQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sanathana-dharma-and-science/CAL5XZooF0aNMsMN0Tqu431z%3DfsiqowD2%3Dqf7Bn2rHUBO0KbVuQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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