REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE
The World Beyond
We have to see which of these two categories we belong to.
There was a frog in a well who had been born and bred in the well and thought of the well as the whole world. The little water there, the brick wall, the little round opening at the top from where the sky was visible. This was his entire world.
Then One day a frog from the outside world somehow fell into the well. The frog inside the well was surprised and asked many questions of the frog from outside.
The frog from outside spoke of a vast ocean, of an infinite sky above, of endless tracts of land, of grass and buildings and trees and the humans who lived there.
The frog inside the well refused to believe that all his beliefs about his well being the whole world could be wrong. He refused to accept an infinite world and universe outside. His mind was closed to everything except what he was accustomed to inside the well.
Then one day there was a terrible storm and it rained and rained and rained. The water inside the well began to rise until it had come right on top of the mouth of the well. From there both the frogs were swept over into the outside world.
The frog inside the well realised then that the frog from the outside world was telling the truth. That there was a world different from the closed world of the inside of the well, and it was vast and infinite and varied. The first frog had no alternative but to believe in the frog from outside now and was ashamed of his early ignorance and bigotry of the past.
In a like manner there are people like the frog inside the well who have closed their minds to everything else except a narrow world of their own, their money, their families, their religion, and for them this is the world and nothing else matters.
But there are others who are connected to the whole world whose minds are open to new ideas, who are filled with tolerance and love for everyone and who see the majesty and beauty of the grand creation of the creator and who see everything as part of the unified scheme of God and everyone and everything as part of His Creation.
These are the enlightened souls who come with a message of Love and peace that takes people to a new world, makes them shed their bigotry, hatred and violence and selfishness of their lives like frogs living in a narrow world of their own.
So we have to decide whether we are to be like the frogs in a well or like the frog that comes from the outside world and enlightens us that there is a world beyond the small world in which we live out our selfish lives.
It is written in the Hindu Upanishads that the world
shall look upon one who is perfect as
imperfect, and shall look upon the imperfect
as perfect.
This is so because the world itself
is imperfect and cannot understand the
perfect. In order to understand a person with
a Ph.D one has to be a Ph.D himself
The World Beyond
We have to see which of these two categories we belong to.
There was a frog in a well who had been born and bred in the well and thought of the well as the whole world. The little water there, the brick wall, the little round opening at the top from where the sky was visible. This was his entire world.
Then One day a frog from the outside world somehow fell into the well. The frog inside the well was surprised and asked many questions of the frog from outside.
The frog from outside spoke of a vast ocean, of an infinite sky above, of endless tracts of land, of grass and buildings and trees and the humans who lived there.
The frog inside the well refused to believe that all his beliefs about his well being the whole world could be wrong. He refused to accept an infinite world and universe outside. His mind was closed to everything except what he was accustomed to inside the well.
Then one day there was a terrible storm and it rained and rained and rained. The water inside the well began to rise until it had come right on top of the mouth of the well. From there both the frogs were swept over into the outside world.
The frog inside the well realised then that the frog from the outside world was telling the truth. That there was a world different from the closed world of the inside of the well, and it was vast and infinite and varied. The first frog had no alternative but to believe in the frog from outside now and was ashamed of his early ignorance and bigotry of the past.
In a like manner there are people like the frog inside the well who have closed their minds to everything else except a narrow world of their own, their money, their families, their religion, and for them this is the world and nothing else matters.
But there are others who are connected to the whole world whose minds are open to new ideas, who are filled with tolerance and love for everyone and who see the majesty and beauty of the grand creation of the creator and who see everything as part of the unified scheme of God and everyone and everything as part of His Creation.
These are the enlightened souls who come with a message of Love and peace that takes people to a new world, makes them shed their bigotry, hatred and violence and selfishness of their lives like frogs living in a narrow world of their own.
So we have to decide whether we are to be like the frogs in a well or like the frog that comes from the outside world and enlightens us that there is a world beyond the small world in which we live out our selfish lives.
It is written in the Hindu Upanishads that the world
shall look upon one who is perfect as
imperfect, and shall look upon the imperfect
as perfect.
This is so because the world itself
is imperfect and cannot understand the
perfect. In order to understand a person with
a Ph.D one has to be a Ph.D himself
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