"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth..."
The Fourth Gospel, John's, begins:
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God."
The Yoga Sutras begin:
"This is the beginning of instruction in yoga.
"Yoga is control of thoughts."
Patanjali begins with meditation, not with God.
In order to formulate a theoretical basis for meditative practice, Patanjali adopted a philosophical system that was neither monist nor no-soulist but atheist and soul-pluralist. However, also wanting to incorporate devotional theism as a kind of meditation, he defined God not as a Creator but as a discarnate soul. Ingenious.
The philosophical system that I accept, dialectical materialism, incorporates monism and no-soulism without rebirth -
monism: being is one;
materialism: it became conscious;
no-soulism: consciousness is not separate.
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