In yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the first guru or the Adi Guru. He is the adi yogi or the first yogi. Out of his realisation, he became ecstatic and danced all over the mountains of the Himalayas, or sat absolutely still. He was constantly into bouts of stillness and bouts of cosmic dancing. All the scholars who saw him recognised that something was happening to him that they themselves did not know…..

In yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the first guru or the Adi Guru. He is the adi yogi or the first yogi. Out of his realisation, he became ecstatic and danced all over the mountains of the Himalayas, or sat absolutely still. He was constantly into bouts of stillness and bouts of cosmic dancing. All the scholars who saw him recognised that something was happening to him that they themselves did not know…..