a moral story to flick the minds: Swami Vivekananda, like his Master Ramakrishna, used to tell many stories in his lectures and discourses to explain religious and philosophical concepts and doctrines. The frog in the well or The story of two frogs is such a story. Most probably Swami Vivekananda was not the original author of the story, but he told this story several times in his lectures and discourses.
☞ In this article you’ll find— Swami Vivekananda original story “Frog in the well” and its versions. Newspaper coverages and Swami Vivekananda’s quotes related to the story. Why we disagree? 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—[Source] 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.” “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?” 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 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. 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