Spirituality in Life : 4. Swami Krishnananda
------------------------------------------ Saturday, August 29, 2020. 5:48.AM. (A Message issued on the occasion of Swamiji's 54th Birthday in April, 1976.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. God is Being. We call Him the Supreme Being. The human mind cannot conceive the meaning of true being. We have a very wrong notion of even what ‘being’ is. When we say that something exists, something is, we associate ‘being’ as a kind of adjective of the object that is said to exist. The chair exists. When we say that a chair exists, the chair is the subject and its existence is the predicate. We have conceived existence as a predicate of the chair which is the subject. But existence cannot be a predicate of anything. It is always the subject. It is presupposed by the notion of every other individual thing in the world. Existence precedes even the notion of chair; it cannot be a predicate of it. On the other hand, whe...