Is the world unreal? Shri Ramakrishna:- "Why should it be unreal? What you are asking is a matter for philosophical discussion.

Q:- “Is the world unreal?”
Shri Ramakrishna:- “Why should it be unreal? What you are asking is a matter for philosophical discussion.
“In the beginning, when a man reasons following the Vedantic method of ‘Not this, not this’, he realizes that Brahman is not the living beings, not the universe, not the twenty-four cosmic principles.  All these things become like dreams to him.  Then comes the affirmation of what has been denied, and he feels that God Himself has become the universe and all living beings.
प्रश्न:- क्या संसार मिथ्या है?
श्रीरामकृष्ण:- मिथ्या क्यों है? वह सब विचार की बात है।
“पहले-पहल ‘नेति’ ‘नेति’ विचार करते समय, वे न जीव है, न जगत् है, न चौबीस तत्त्व है, ऐसा हो जाता है, – यह सब स्वप्नवत हो जाता है। इसके बाद अनुलोम विलोम होता है, तब वही जीव-जगत् हुए ह, यह ज्ञान हो जाता है।