RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 13, 2014 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2014 at 9:50 am by Little Rik.)
(October 13, 2014 at 8:54 am)genkaus Wrote:(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.
May i see your evidence that the temples in Varanasi are not older than 4000 years ago?
(October 13, 2014 at 8:40 am)Stimbo Wrote: I can sit full lotus. Have been able to since I was a little bitty Stimbo. Doesn't mean I'm doing yoga though, especially since I'm not.
I can walk around on my knees in that position as well, or on all fives. Sort of a party piece. Let's see Shiva do that .
Things change overtime.
Some people still follow the yoga system as it suppose to be used.
Other people take a bit from here and a bit from there in order to please their own agenda.
I have seen people doing yoga posture lying on a surfboard.
Christians celebrate the mass.
Since when Christ celebrate the mass?
Old mates become new enemies and old enemies become c lose mates.
Idiots may become intelligent and intelligents people may become idiots so what you do may have nothing to do with what the lotus posture suppose to mean.