Everyone Is Thinking His Understanding Is The Greatest, But He Has No Idea How Greatest God Is

[Gavin Swinden]

(We are very teeny, so we think that this Pacific Ocean, the greatest. The frog philosophy. Everyone is thinking that his understanding is the greatest. He has no idea that how greatest God is. We say "God is great," but we do not know how great He is)

 

"Now, in our idea, because we are very teeny, we can see this Pacific Ocean before us—"the greatest." But even in comparison to the universe, it is not even a drop of water. In comparison to the universe there are millions and trillions of Pacific Oceans floating in the sky.

 

So what is this Pacific Ocean in comparison to the universe? Therefore it is not greatest. But to our idea, we are thinking it is the greatest. This is called relative truth. This is scientifically truth, Professor Einstein's theory, relativity. We think something very great or greatest according to our capacity of understanding.

 

We are very teeny, so we think that this Pacific Ocean, the greatest. The frog philosophy. Everyone is thinking that his understanding is the greatest. He has no idea that how greatest God is. We say "God is great," but we do not know how great He is."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 24, 1969, Hawaii)

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

Gavin Swinden

Prabhupada "But our relationship with God is so permanent that artificially we may try to banish God some way or other—it cannot be. To become atheist, not to believe in God, they're simply artificial. These godless persons, when they're actually in danger, they think of God. I have seen it. Automatically they think of God. So this godlessness is not our natural life. To love God, that is our natural life."