We don't need situations. Situations are not important. Anything that you have been grappling with that feels like it has totally consumed you and snatched your life away or could reduce you to zero and can make you go through all the hellish experiences—these situations are not important. What is important here is the understanding of it. If you have that in you then you can turn anything into everything, then you can turn anything around for yourself. Otherwise, best of circumstances, if it is given and presented to you in the most beautiful way, will be lost by you if the understanding is not there.

Very few of them are blessed with problems, very few. Rest of us are just dealing with our own self, to be honest with you. We are in fact not dealing with any problem; the problem is us. We are the problem. We are not able to sort ourselves out. Things are sorted out outside. Things are just the way they are outside. We are not able to sort ourselves out.

So they are not the problems. We are the problems. Otherwise, it would be exactly the same for everyone, but it is not like that. It is a problem for you but not for the rest of the world. What you may be struggling and grappling with is, someone is sailing through it. That is not the concern, the concern here is understanding. The situation, the way it is, is not that important. What is important is the understanding of it, and that doesn’t come from any book. That doesn't come from having ourself enrolled into the most renowned university of the world. Unfortunately, it does not come from anywhere.

Very few are equipped with that level of perspicacity, that deeper level of understanding, very few. And if you have that within you, then everything, all there is, could be resolved through you, if not by you. But, unfortunately, about 90 percent of the population of the world are dealing with their own issues. They’re not dealing with the problem outside. That's a wrong concept. The things outside are programmed for your self-evolution—this is the right thinking. They are there to change you. You are trying to change things, but they are there to change you as a person—this is the ‘missed point’ which 90% of the population miss, miss it; they don’t understand this concept. We are trying to shape ‘situation & things’ without shaping and changing ourselves—that is a tragic point. We want to have things to be in order, and that ‘things to be in order’ is nothing but our preferences, and these preferences are totally saturated with our traits. And these traits stink. These traits will make this earth ‘uninhabitable’ place to live. It’s the reality, ‘uninhabitable’ place indeed. That's the problem.

So things, the way they are, are programmed for you so that you evolve as a greater human being. If this seed goes in you, then something could happen in your life . Then you won’t be complaining about the śani graha or some—any other—graha. It can affect you a bit, but if you really kind of cooperate with that, then it will certainly dictate you. So this planetary system can actually influence our lives. It does, absolutely it does. But it cannot dictate your life. It is not possible for any graha to be so overwhelming that it can consume your life or dictate your life. Absolutely no! Not required! ‘Doesn't have to do like that!’

In fact, anything that cannot be in your control and if it happens to be not in order, if you think so, is the perfect design for your growth, is ‘perfect’ thing ever happened in your life! The one that you are complaining about, you should be highly—be appreciative of. This is the reality. But only if you ‘look at’ from a different point of view because it is there to change you as a human being, transform your life, dissolve all the ‘karmic impression’ which has been holding you in the cage. And you have the opportunity to break off the prison, the confinement, and walk free.

So these situations that have been presented to you, which happened in the past, which you could not have controlled anyway—have happened in perfect order for your growth, for your immense growth, unimaginable to you, unimaginable to you. This is what you’ll feel once you are elevated enough to understand this. And that's the reason why you keep hearing about it, don't you?—that this person has done this and this person has gone through ‘so much of darkness’. He passed through many ‘tunnels of darkness’ of his life, whereas the other person buckled under the pressure of it and reduced himself to mediocrity or nothing in life. The reason is only this, the very understanding of ‘what it is’, but you don't have to understand anything outside of yourself, not needed, absolutely unnecessary. What you need to understand is yourself. As you understand yourself, everything out there in the world will come out revealing itself to you. That’s the power you have and each one of us has.

So, would you look at things in life and complain about it? Or would you change your perspective, and look at this life, and be ‘appreciative’ about? What do you want? This is the question that you need to ask yourself. Those who could find themselves appreciating enough, then they could actually resolve a lot of matters. They can at least dissolve all the matters. Even the pain will turn into bliss. At least the pain has been given to me so that I become a higher version of myself. So much has been done for me. I’m appreciative. If these things had not happened, I would not have been compelled to conduct myself in a certain way. I would have been ‘same person’ as I was, and there would not have been any possibility of any change in me. Now there is a possibility because of the situation that has happened.

So, anything that really disturbs you outside, the first thing to do is to ‘look within yourself’ that ‘What is it in me that I need to explore?’ I repeat myself, ‘What is it in me that I need to explore?’ What is it in me that I need to explore about myself? You just need to process everything in the right order. Everything will turn out to be ‘best’ in your life, the best.

So all that talk of grahas and astrological chart—it's very visible that one person achieves so much, the achievement of that person goes beyond imagination, and the other person, other person failure is also beyond the imagination. Both were given almost the same position and power, but one made it so huge that it was just unimaginable. Which graha could help, could have helped him to reach that level of success? And which graha was so bad, so debilitated, that it got him there? No graha could be so empowering enough to get a person to achieve that highest level of success, and at the same time it could be so ‘debilitated’ to make a person so miserable, not possible. It is the very process of it. If the ‘process is missed’ of what we have, then everything will be lost. Someone knows how to process it really well. And there are so many examples in the corporate world that you see today. And those who can process it have immense strength within. They can go through any humiliation. They don't want to look good; they want to be good; they want to do good. They have massive fortitude and strength within them.

So, as the butterfly which comes out of a cocoon and that cocoon from where she comes from has the resilience, if she misses the resilience point and period, then she dies immediately after she comes out of the cocoon. But she, if she is there within the cocoon and processes it, processes her evolution for her wings to be strong enough to fly and be patient enough, she does it really well. She comes out of the cocoon and sees this beautiful world. So, if you are under a cocoon of something, how you are processing it, that's the whole thing.

So the change is never easy. But internalizing what is happening around you is something few are equipped with very well. And they are the success stories of the world, ‘no matter what grahas’ there in their horoscope. Anything that talks about the future and misses the present, it misses the responsibility, my dear friends. It misses the process of life, and the process is everything. How you are narrating ‘what it is’ is defining your life; that is it.

So, all prayers! And pray really well: don't pray for good times. Pray that you, whatever it is, that you become the best version of yourself at all times. Operate from your higher self at all times. Never become so low that you operate from the senses—because they are very compulsive. And if the compulsiveness of life is the order of life, then tragedy is a new order of life anyway. What else can be said. If one is compulsive just for the heck of it, the person behaves very compulsively. Then even the mountain of gold will be turned into sewage of the person’s traits that may not be very pleasant.

So, no matter what it is, you have this human body. And the one thing that you must realize, if it hadn't in you, you wouldn't be facing what you are facing; always remember this. Before you were born, you were given all the skills to face the world. If you are facing it, it means that you have it within you to overcome it, 100%. You would not be given the situation that you cannot handle. That’s why we have ‘unique set’ of challenges, yes or no? You have, we have, we all have ‘unique set’ of problems and challenges in our lives—not problems, but challenges in our lives—because what I can handle, the other person cannot handle and vice versa. It is all about how you’re processing it. If you are going through something like this it means that some, there is something in you that you can handle and overcome.