Question: What are the expectations for someone on this path who is not likely to be going into tapas in this birth?

Babaji:

Different personalities will have different ideas. In the legendary times, some people would do tapas to obtain powers and so would become demonic in their nature and behavior and would torture those around them. But if one goes towards God Realization, and meditates well, they will still be elevated in their next birth. One needs to understand tapas before they start - one needs to understand what it is and what is the target, or one may stop too soon, before completing it. Doing tapas to obtain powers is like settling for having one single chocolate, when we are going to get the whole supermarket.