To not take things personally

I remember before I learned Jyotish that I was often bewildered as to why things were.

I would wonder "why is this person acting that way" and "why was that thing that way" and so on. And then I learned Jyotish and honestly, I never again had to leave those questions unanswered. Better yet, after a few years, I no longer had to ask them.

For example, at a meeting the other night, there was to me a rather sharp and shrill quality to the discussions, discussions that were actually coming out a generous emotional place but that ultimately detracted from the ability to relate. The relating instead demonstrated fairly universally a very strong ill-placed and displaced pitta.

I think this not because I know more or even that I feel more than any other, but rather because the chart of the meeting says so, and so, as seen after the fact, it was.

I am just writing this to remind myself and invite others to consider what, to me, is a deep Vedic truth: don't take things personally.