 When Adiyogi transmitted his knowing one-hundred-and-twelve ways, the seven disciples that he had, the Saptarishis, he divided this into seven parts of sixteen each. To each one of them learned sixteen ways of reaching to the ultimate. The Lord says it took eighty-four years to learn this for them. In the eighty-four years, he was not just that teacher, slowly he became that everything. When they grasped the sixteen ways, he told them, it's time to go, you have to go and share this with the rest of the world. When they were just about to leave, he said, but what about the Guru Dakshina? It is not because the Guru needs the Dakshina, it is just that the Guru wants him to leave with the sense of offering something precious, because in a state of offering, a human being is at its best. So Adiyogi, Shiva, Ashwara, Guru Dakshina, these seven people were bewildered. What to offer him? What have they got that they can offer him? Agastimini said, I carry sixteen gems within me, the most precious kind. These sixteen gems that I gathered from you, I offer to you. They spent eighty-four years of heart-breaking sadhana to earn this. And now, in a moment when he asked the Guru Dakshina, they put it back at his feet and it stood there empty. Nothing. Adiyogi said, time to go. They left with nothing in their hands. And this was the greatest aspect of his teaching. Because they went empty, they became like him. Shiva means that which is not, they became that which is not. Because they became like this, all the 112 ways found expression through all the seven of them, things that they never could grasp, things for which they had no capacity, things for which they did not have the needed intelligence, all that became a part of them because they simply offered this. Whatever they had gathered, the most precious aspect of their life, they gave it back to him and went empty-handed.