(October 13, 2014 at 8:40 am)Riketto Wrote: Any?
When i ever said that all representations of Shiva are 7000 years old?
Some may well be done during his life but most must have been done after his death which could be many many years after.
You never been interested in Shiva life and all of a sudden you pretend to tell people who study Shiva what Shiva was or was not doing.
Don't be ridiculous.
Have you ever been to Varanasi?
Just go there one day and see all the temples dedicated to Shiva and ask the people what Shiva was doing when he was sitting in the lotus position and why the lotus position and yoga meditation go hand in hand as you couldn't practice yoga meditation in any other position and find out how old is Varanasi and when these temples were build.
Study a bit first and then you may better understand how the system works.
In order to prove that yoga is 7000 years old, you need to find representation of yogic practices from 7000 years ago - what's so difficult to understand.
Your speculation that Shiva practiced yoga 7000 years ago is not evidence.
Your statement that later depiction of Shiva show him practicing Yoga is not evidence.
The temples of Varanasi - none of which are older than 4000 years - are not evidence.
Your only course is to find a representation of Yoga that dates to 5000 BCE - it doesn't have to be of Shiva, but you seem hell-bent on it.