Answer
The Gita is very clear about who is responsible for a person's hard circumstances. Some situations arise from destiny, and that destiny was built by our own actions across previous lives. Such destiny should be accepted with dignity, without repeated grieving.
At the same time, we should be careful not to spoil our future destiny with our own hands today. Avoid wrong actions, do not trouble or harm others, and engage in virtuous deeds as far as you can.
Endurance is not enough — find a way forward
The real question is how to face the difficulties of the present. Bearing them silently is not enough. You must look for solutions with intelligence.
Understand clearly: a deity may help you in a particular situation, but no deity can change the entire picture of your life. The Lord does not allow any god or goddess to override the law of karma in a wholesale way. The power to change that picture lies within you — in your own thinking, your reflection, and your sustained effort.
Na kartritvam na karmani lokasya srijati prabhuh, Na karma-phala-samyogam svabhavas tu pravartate.
The Lord does not create anyone's actions, nor their fruits; everything arises from one's own nature. By all means visit Goddess Durga — She is immensely powerful. But the primary weight always rests on your own actions and your own thinking.
Read the Gita — do not merely recite it
Use your problem-solving intelligence. Read the Gita every day — read, understand, and apply it in life. You will find complete guidance there for the removal of sorrow.
Toward the end of the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna states a hard but truthful fact: if a person were to invest even half the time and attention he spends asking deities for favours into his own effort, he could accomplish his work himself, with far less cost. Recall how, and on what basis, Sri Krishna put a stop to the worship of Indra.
If calling on God and performing rituals alone could transform a life and remove poverty, then those who pray five times a day — roughly an hour and a half of daily worship — would generally be the most prosperous people. The reality is otherwise.
So practice selfless devotion to God. Love Him. But for actual achievement and the removal of poverty, your own planning, hard work and active effort will prove far more effective. Carry out every duty while remaining in the shelter of God — that combination works wonders.
