Question: Could you please explain your example of devotion to Swamiji and the ashram, and how that lead to tapas?

Babaji:

For the first 20 years, I was working like a householder - cleaning the ashram, doing office work, looking after children and the mentally retarded boys and so on, but my mind was on Guru, and was not attached to anything as ‘mine’. Everything was done as a service. I loved the children, and looked after them, did the work with care, but my mind was always on Swamiji. I kept praying to the Divine that I would realize the Self eventually.

If one follows such methods, then definitely one can get it in this very life.