When the consciousness principle leaves a body, we call it dead or lifeless. This is easy to understand
How do we understand existence principle with a similar example? For example, what happens when the existence principle leaves a chair?
Discovering Self
Sri Avinash; the existence-principle cannot leave a chair! Whatever 'is' is always 'is'. It is 'avinash'. Is-ness is always there in a thing. It can never become 'was'-ness. (its 'tense' is always 'present'. Taking your chair-example, we all have a facination for the chair(1); Is-ness also has it; it never leaves it. Like any politician; till Kaala, takes his/her charge. Even when chair is destroyed, the plastic 'is'; (now no more wooden chairs!), to be re-cycled, through the raddiwalla, into a new chair (punar-janma) ☺️
Thank you sir. Still not entirely clear. But I am trying to understand. Let me rephrase my question.. When a person dies, he loses chetna and the impact or change is detectable by our senses. We can see he is not breathing and hence conclude that the enlivening principle is absent. But in case of existence principle, is there no way to see the impact?
Would it be correct to say that consciousness principle pervades through a living being in the exactly same way as it pervades through a non living thing?
You are confusing yourselves; Conscious-principle is one thing; and existence-principle is another; Both principles pervade a living human being; but only existence-principle in non-living being! Hope it is clear!
Imagine an ice-cube in a glass of water. What will happen if the water principle leaves the ice cube?
The question seems logically implausible because the water principle cannot leave ice cube. If ice melts, water merely changes from one form (ice) to another (water in the glass).
1. Now, if we decide to call that unchanging principle behind the chair as ‘existence’.
2. ‘Existence is permanent’. Chair can stay or leave, but existence cannot ‘leave’ the chair (by definition).
3. If you take out chair from existence, what remains is existence.
4. Even if every’thing’ leaves existence, existence alone remains. Poornasya poornamaadaya, poornameya avashishayte.
Thank you sir.