Ram-tare-maya - Oh Rama, this is Your illusion!---Pearls

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Salutations Sri Richardji,

 

Cackles.....!!!!! rotflol.....about when you were shown Sri

Navaratna with $2 pearl to laugh or to cry Know the feeling only

too well. And in absolute resonance with you about nacre. Thank

you for sharing your thoughts about pearls; all taken on board. By

Shiva you are an expert!! Appreciate it immensely!

 

Om Namah Shivaya

Respects,

Simone

 

 

, Richard Shaw-

Brown <rsbj66> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> > What are your thoughts about seed pearls or river pearls/

freshwater

> > pearls?

>

> ---I believe that the "mukta" or "Moti" referred to by Shastra and

> jyotish can only be what THEY are talking about. And in those

times,

> even up to 150 years ago, there was only one kind of pearl, i.e.,

> natural pearl. This natural pearl is recognized in modern gemology.

> This natural pearl is a "single sacred unit"; such natural was

created

> by nature in substance, SHAPE, and composition. Anything other than

> that is not shastric. Because Shastra didn't fore see that in Kali

yuga

> humans would place -preshaped- beads in live oysters, and these

coated

> by a layer of nacre (pearl substance). By in an x-ray it is clearly

> seen to be only a small % of pearl substance with out a pearl core

or

> pearl make-up composite. Shastra also did foresee that the human

race

> would become so illusioned (in Kali yuga) that the true PEARL of

the

> Vedas would be forgotten completely, and humans would take a non-

pearl

> to be a pearl simply on surface appearance, forgetting the sacred

> makeup of what is a real pearl 100% nacre and natural composite.

Now,

> only a gemologist knows the difference between an imitation and a

> natural; but in the jyotish-gemstone world it has been comletely

> forgotten and unknown. A pity really, because there are natural

pearls,

> in gem quality, and they cost about $2,000-$5,000 per carat. in

ring

> sizes, and much cheaper in small NR sizes. At most that's about the

> same as a gem quality ruby or emerald - even though natural pearl -

in

> GEM quality - is more rare than any of the nine gems, still it is

not

> most expensive.

>

> What I have seen is that people are not prepared to pay a fair and

> reasonable price for a natural pearl due to complete ignorance of

the

> difference between a naturally shaped and composed Natural Pearl-

and

> all variations of cultured. If "nacre" substance is to be taken as

a

> "pearl" then wood should be taken as a house, or a brick spray-

painted

> with ruby (red corundum) powder as a ruby.

>

> Fact: Natural pearl is EASILY separated from all cultured by x-

ray. But

> who wants to pay $6000 for a 3 carat natural pearl, when they can

buy a

> cultured pearl much cheaper, for only $30,000 *GRIN* ---Actually a

> cultured pearl of 3 carats is only a few $. And you get what you

pay

> for!

>

> When people show me their Sri Navaratna, containing a $2. cultured

> pearl, I don't know if I should laugh OR cry!

>

> Ram-tare-maya - "Oh Rama, this is Your illusion!"

>

> Hope this help... Om svasti astu!

>

> Best regards,

>

> Richard