Yogic evolution - defence to defencelessness

A profound story:

Two yogis meet.

Yogi #1 is immensely proud of his powers and says, "I'll show you my siddhis. Strike me with this sword as hard as you can!"

The other does and the sword shatters against his adamantine frame.

Yogi #1 then says, "See, nothing can hurt me! What about you?"

Yogi #2 says, "Do the same to me."

The first yogi whips out another sword and strikes with immense strength, but the sword simply swishes through the other yogi without any resistance.

Try replacing:

• swords with words, 
• adamantine body with adamantine ego and self-image;
• both yogis with yourself

to understand the evolution:

from aggressive defence

to

total defencelessness or unreactiveness.

Idries Shah writes somewhere that a seeker first becomes a dervish and then a Sufi. A dervish may have greater powers than a Sufi who has surrendered totally.

NOTES

The two yogis may be Gorakhnath and Sadasivendra Sarasvati, aka Sadashiv Brahmendra, though I have no idea from where I got this story.