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[Little Rik]

Buddha was very smart and intelligent.
He knew that the best way to show the God within to the people of that age was for the people to discover this God for themselves.
By teaching yoga to these people they would get there anyway.  

There are Buddhist refutations of the different schools of Hindu philosophy, including Yoga and Vedanta, and a rejection of Hindu deities like Shiva and Krishna. There are similar Yoga-Vedantic refutations of the different schools of Buddhist philosophy, including the rejection of the omniscience of Buddha, criticism of the Buddhist view of the mind, and so on.

Buddhist scriptures themselves, both Mahayana and Theravadin, contain refutations of the Atman, Brahman, Ishvara, and the key tenets of Yoga and Vedanta, which are regarded as false doctrines. Note the Lankavatara Sutra, which is very typical in this regard. Refutation of Buddhist teachings does not occur in Hindu scriptures, which are largely pre-Buddhist but are common in the later literature. Many Vedantic, Sankhya and Yoga texts contain refutations of Buddhist doctrines, particularly those of the four classical schools of Buddhist philosophy, which are similarly regarded as untrue. Such criticism of Buddhist teachings occur in the main commentaries on the Yoga Sutras, that of Vyasa, and are common in Advaita or non-dualistic Vedanta.

https://vedanet.com/2012/06/13/yoga-and-...fferences/

Wherever you are getting your information from, it appears that historical Buddhism was unaware of it. Where are you getting this information from?

Not just around Buddha but around every spiritual being you will always find a myriad of stories that
that spiritual being suppose to have or not have said.
Christ is an other example.
Also around him there are a myriad of stories that you may well get lost trying to understand all.

My knowledge about Buddha or Christ relate to the fact that they were real spiritualist.
Both of them practice yoga meditation.
Christ spend those missing years between 12-13 to 33 traveling in the east especially in the indian
subcontinent were he met several yoga teachers.

By practicing the same yoga that these two masters practice it is quite easy to know where Buddha and Christ were heading to and what they were teaching.