VISIT TODAY SARADA II Thing - in – itself is unknown:

Sri Ramakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna

Thing - in – itself is unknown:

All of you must have seen pearls and most of you know how pearls are formed. A grain of sand enters into the shell of a pearl oyster and sets up an irritation there, and the oyster's body reacts towards the irritation and covers the little particle with its own juice. That crystallizes and forms the pearl. So the whole universe is like that, it is the pearl which is being formed by us. What we get from the outside world is basically the blow. Indeed, even to be aware of that blow we need to respond, and when we respond, we truly venture our very own part mind towards the blow, and when we come to know of it, it is really our own mind as it has been shaped by the blow. (CW.III.403)