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In plain words

Sri Ramakrishna, smiling: "Yes, indeed! Housewives keep a pot like that. Inside it they keep sea-foam, little balls of washing blue, little bundles of cucumber seeds, pumpkin seeds and gourd seeds, and they take them out when they are needed. In the same way the Mother, who is Brahman, gathers up all the seeds after the destruction of creation. After creation the Primal Energy dwells within the world itself! She gives birth to the world and then dwells within it. The Vedas tell of the urnanabhi, the spider with its web: the spider draws the web out from within and then itself lives on that web. God is both the container of the world and what it contains.