If you exist, if you are alive, if you have the cool breeze, if you purify yourself with it, morning and evening, then you evolve.
You go through stages; you are your past; and at the same time no more, as you are the present. You cannot thus linger on a (past) self praise, nor have time for ego praise, as you keep evolving and growing thanks to the vibrations.
But beware, if you leave your practice, this is when you are like any other; in no time. A mere frozen image in time. That time even discards like dust.
If you are a sahaj yogi; then you should not recognise yourself after a year, two years. Because you have outgrown your old skin, shed it off and naturally moved on; as river flows and never stands still.
Praise be to the Adi Kundalini; the Reality, that if you recognise; is reflected in your own water and is all yours.
Then, ask for a pure heart. This is the second steps.
Then, forgive everyone because they do not know.
Then, Love them because we are all One Spirit.
If they still don't get it and persist in wrong; because they do not know, then Higher Forces will take over.
The Virata, spin like a wheel, and throw out the dirt outside; and let you with the bliss inside.
This is how the sorting out happens.
And you arise like a Lotus from the mud.
Praise be the Highest of the High.
Peace and Bliss.
Ameen.
Now; in Mataji talk, early talk, she was very clear about people growth, about pure desire, pure sincerity of your own ascent.
From a yogi; you master yourself and your own reality and become a Mahayogi.
When I felt the coolbreeze the first time, i googled everywhere to see what is the next step.
What these practitioners became, what powers and amazing personalities they became.
I found nothing.
Except this perfect exemple of a sahaj yogi; that earnestly practised and purified himself and as shri mataji mentioned in her talks; " for now you are sitting facing me" in the future i want you to sit where i am sitting, next to me facing the world"
So for now, you take your vibration from Me, once you grow, you set yourself the exemple.
You become your own Master and start fixing the Reality where you live, no doubt.
The Only Yogi I found that matches that description is there:
Nirvana Shatakam
by ShankaraEnglish version by Ivan M. Granger
I am not mind, not intellect, not ego, not thought.
I am not the ears, the tongue, the nose or the eyes, or what they witness,
I am neither earth nor sky, not air nor light.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am not the breath of prana, nor its five currents.
I am not the seven elements, nor the five organs,
Nor am I the voice or hands or anything that acts.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I have no hatred or preference, neither greed nor desire nor delusion.
Pride, conflict, jealousy -- these have no part of me.
Nothing do I own, nothing do I seek, not even liberation itself.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I know neither virtue nor vice, neither pleasure nor pain.
I know no sacred chants, no holy places, no scriptures, no rituals.
I know neither the taste nor the taster.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I fear not death. I doubt neither my being nor my place.
I have no father or mother; I am unborn.
I have no relatives, no friends. I have no guru and no devotees.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
Free from doubt, I am formless.
With knowledge, in knowledge, I am everywhere, beyond perception.
I am always the same. Not free, not trapped -- I am.
I am knowledge and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
Truly, I am Shiva, pure awareness.
Shivo Ham! Shivo Ham!
Source: https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/S/Shankara/NirvanaShata/index.html
-- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger |