Q47. What is Dr Frog mentality?

A frog living in a well is called ”Dr Frog”, because he knows everything about the well. He thinks that the water in the well is everything because he only knows the well. He doesn’t know that outside the well there is a vast ocean, which has trillions of gallons of more water than the well. In a similar way, by only reading the non-Vedic or recently created scriptures, one will have the mentality of Dr Frog. This mentality being: •

God is invisible, as he has not seen God, or he is following someone who has not seen God

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God only has one prophet, because he thinks God has limitations

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God has created just one planet with living beings (this planet), because he has never been beyond this planet

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Humans have only existed for only 6000 years, because he cannot imagine anything beyond a few thousand years

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The World is coming to an end soon, because he thinks everything is centered around his own limited life and perception

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We never existed before this life (no reincarnation), because he cannot remember his past lives, so he assumes there were none

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People suffer or enjoy by chance (no karma), because he cannot understand how things happen, he assumes it’s all by chance

“I am not manifest to everyone. The foolish persons are covered by My internal potency [Yoga Maya] and they cannot understand that I am unborn, and eternal, with a spiritual form.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 7.25) “Foolish men, disregard me when I appear in a human like body. They do not know that My nature is spiritual, and I am the great Lord of everything. (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 9.11) Not everyone can understand or know God, because He is not so cheap. Only those who are open minded and pious can understand and know that Lord Krishna is the Supreme person, God. For the others, God will be unknown/invisible/unseen.