6 Remarkable Stories of Agastya Muni’s Life

“How can emptiness grow? Only because emptiness has grown, the cosmos is so spread out. A hundred billion stars or galaxies would not have made it so big.”

—Sadhguru

When Adiyogi transmitted his knowing, he explored and expounded 112 ways in which a human being can attain to his ultimate nature. When he saw the time that the Sapta Rishis–the seven disciples that he had–may take to grasp the 112 ways, he divided them into seven parts of sixteen each. Each one of them learned sixteen ways of reaching the ultimate. The lore says that it took them eighty-four years to learn this. In these eighty-four years, they stayed with Adiyogi and he was not just their teacher but slowly became their everything.

When they grasped these sixteen ways, and were beginning to bask in this knowledge, Adiyogi told them, “It's time to go.” They were completely overwhelmed by this, because they could not think of a life without him. But he said, “No, it's time to go. You have to go and share this with the rest of the world.”

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