Sincere casters of spiritual Truth on R&S, Do you sometimes feel like you are casting pearls amongst swine?

Question

I mean sometimes you ask a Truthful question from scripture and the swine, vultures, demons, wretched rascals, mundane wranglers and ignorant fools try to misenterperate every word, for their own twisted enjoyment. I can see why we should not broadcast such pure knowledge before such an audience. I will deleat my last question, because persons are not ready for such pure Truths. Garuanga!

Too late cynic. I deleated it. Look at the oinks on this quesiton. They are even proud of their hoghood. Let them live in ignorance if they wish. God gives free will and if someone wants to be a hog in thier next life so be it.

What ever autumleaves. Just a rubberstamp answer. Then you deny that swine exist too.

Hey jc Dont judge me that I hateing anyone here. I am sick of nasty comments they are hateing not me.

Father K-The Bhagavad Gita or Bible or all other holy booksand Universal truths have nothing to do with all the hypocrisy, nonsense and exploytation that goes on in the Name of God and Religion.

Hey Omotherlifeforce. I don't condem anyone. And yes we should accept offences twards ourselves and I do. But when it comes to our Lord we should not accept. That is the mood of Love to protect and deffend our loved ones expecially one who blasphamies God or His pure Devotee. I will not tollerate and it is said we should run far away from those who criticize a pure devotee. So your answer will not due.

Answer 1

Jayasri devi dasi -- I have been a "fan" of yours since the first day that I signed up at answers.yahoo. I suppose I love your loving and kind answers as much as I do your insightful, if sometimes leading questions. When I log in I always see what you have been doing before I begin to amuse myself reading the other sections that interest (and yes distract) me.

I clicked to add you to my network because I knew that you would remind me every time I come to answers.yahoo that I should be trying to improve my own spirituality through my own spiritual practice.

Yours is an incredibly noble practice and I am grateful to you for adding this aspect to my visits to this distracting site.

And now to answer your question. I know that your pearls always seem to end with a recommendation that your readers to: "Read Bhagavad Gita As it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada- tells the Absolute Truth. The Truth is One."

The fact is that my own spirituality is based on a similar teaching brought to me through a divine chain of Gurus the most recent of which is Paramahansa Yogananda. I would not dare to mention to you that you should visit the SRF temples or read even his famous Autobiography because I get the sense from you that you are made blissful by your path and by sharing your path.

So... in some sense I do not believe that I have "pearls" to cast in this situation and in so many other situations. I have something that works for me and I try to remember that we should "love the honey, not the vessel."

In further answer to your question about casting pearls before swine I want to share a question that I offered an answer for a few weeks ago. The person wrote only: What's the meaning of all this?

She received the silly assortment of quips "the swine" (you don't really believe that, do you?) toss around when they are bored.

I normally do not share aspect of my spirituality here because I do not think this is the right forum for me. But the woman seemed to really need something and I felt that I might have something to contribute so I answered:

"I think the "meaning of all of this" is to teach that whatever "meaning" people find in "this" or even "all of this" will be profoundly different from one person to another.

Some people will answer that the meaning of all of this is to teach that we should all "love one another."

And while I don't see that as a "meaning," I really believe that if there is a "purpose" or "point" to "all of this," well, that simple phrase would be a good place to start.

... [I delete a bunch here]

So what can we learn from all of this?

Well, I think the primary thing that we can learn is to be helpful and to tell the truth. Perhaps I will never be so awesome that I can "love one another" but I can at least learn how to be helpful and how to tell the truth."

I do not believe what I offered was a pearl and I do not believe that my readers were swine. But I feel that that answer added more than it took away in some sense. I believe that I am happy for it as humble as it is.

So... let's not be too attached to the outcomes of our contribution here. All we can do is show up here and hope that something that we say is useful in helping someone see the divinity that already resides within them.

It is very hard for me to remember this. Thank you for being one of the people who reminds me that I always have something better that I could be doing -- which is connecting with God.

Answer 2

yes I actually do feel this way a lot. (although I would not call them so many bad names- really they are just ignorant isn't it?) I answer many questions, i don't know if your last question was one I answered- (if so I'd feel sad that it was deleted), and I see that it seems not to be religious and spiritual people who are there, and sometimes ignorant people wish to insult etc..... this is their free will though.. if God can give them this right, who am I to judge?

I now try to write less things on here, be more general, and if a person has some interest that is the time to continue to the more pearly subjects. What else can be done?

Aradhan and Aumji, I am very sad for your tribulations.-

Aumji, you are not casting pearls before swine, but you are defending the glory of God! Please continue your discussions with like minded individuals in a happy mood, and when these trolls come, we will have to ignore them... ignore the envios- this is said in Sastra.

Aradhana, do not stop discussions with your friends and contacts of God also. you are not offending Krsna, the "swine" are the ones butting their way to our discussions and trying to disturb, not that you are casting the precious pearls to them.

Answer 3

A parable to consider is the sowing of seeds. Our seeds of thought will grow for some but not all. The seeds are not the sacred things!Use Jesus ministries as your example .He came for sinners and using the logic you started with that could never have happened Mathew would never become a disciple .The woman at the well would never have introduced a whole village of people who held her in contempt to the messiah. David would not be a man after God's own heart. In regard to your last sentence Grace comes by faith and that is a gift from God! He says so,and he can give that to anyone at anytime.Your message to any one may cause that occurrence to happen between God's spirit and that person' s."Preach the gospel to every creature" P.S. don't tell em your preaching, just speak the truth and the truth will set many free.

Answer 4

Not really. I do not answer stupid questions as these are just baited hooks by professional haters of anyone who has faith. If you ask a question and the answers you receive are hurtful or stupid then just ignore them. If you choose to use YA R&S as a forum then you must expect it. It is not a place for tranquility and nor is the world. You never know what effect either your question or an answer you give may have on one individual. And remember a soft answer turneth away wrath. Ignore the ones who mock you. Christ did even as they prepared to kill Him. And He prayed Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Nor do they who irritate you. So if you can't forgive them don't post. And remember the pearls before swine quote has an ending no one remembers ------------------

Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Don't let them rend you.

Answer 5

Even among swine, there is one person that will really appreciate what we have to ask or say and take it to heart. Does that matter to you? And why are you putting down people who do not know any better by calling them with animal names such as "swine, vultures, demons, rascals, wranglers,etc."? When you speak in such language like that, you are acting superior without love. I love animals such as swine and vultures. I enjoy seeing vultures where I live. They matter cause they clean the earth of decayed matter. I think pigs are cute lovable animals. God created these creatures, so did God create every one of us especially those whom are "ignorant fools." If you truly love Krishna, you would love all of His creation even those whom act ignorant. They do not know any better. Rather have compassion towards them whom speak in ignorant ways. Do you care to remain steadfast as His beacon of light here or not? Do you have the strength to do so? Does it matter to you if you reach and connect one person among a crowd of those whom chose to be closed-minded? If one person is touched, then that is what really matters, doesn't it?

Answer 6

As a true & sincere spiritual seeker, I stopped making judgement on other, thinking Im the greatest. I am not. If I think I am a "pearl" that would mean I lost my time. My Satguru taught me to not judge others, discriminate my thoughts, and to not think that others are wrong. Nobody is wrong. You just have to find balance. Your question can show yourself your "ego" level, which is still high. Continue to read the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna loves you.

Answer 7

When I first came to this sight there was a day when I let them get to me and went off, unfortunately. I don't let it bother me any more .God brought me here for a reason so I answer the most honest I can and pray someone somewhere is caused to think. It is there choice after all. The Holy Spirit has them here too for a reason. They are not aware of it but it is true.

Answer 8

Many people refuse to see whats real and whats unreal.Often we miss the real truth behind the scripture. God tries to wake us continuously in many ways. For instance, in the winter it appears most trees have died. Its an illusion, for in the spring we see the trees were not dead after all.The earth revolves around the sun, the same way our lives should revolve around God.At night it becomes dark as if the sun has abandoned us ,but it has not,rather we have tuned away from the sun.There are many symbolic things in life to help us awaken.

Answer 9

Unfortunately you are telling the absolute truth. From my experience, users of yahoo India are much more mature, sensible, well-mannered and professional than users of other yahoo versions. The problem is that whenever someone asks a question on any of the english yahoo versions (yahoo India, UK, Australia, Canada etc) it is always copied onto the central yahoo version which I think is yahoo USA. That is where the trolls are. So, in the end your question becomes available to everyone. There are many fools that do not wish to utilise yahoo for constructive and mature purposes but to abuse yahoo and behave in a childish manner. With some fools, they have nothing better to do with their time and thus they come onto yahoo to act like a dogs.

Answer 10

I wonder if you could enlighten me as to the true meaning of "misenterperate." I've looked in several dictionaries and have not been able to locate the wordl

I'm certain that you, as a purveyor of Truth, (with a capital "T," no less) would not use a word incorrectly, since words are our way of expressing the Truth.