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?
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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.
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) ☺️