Acharya Prashant explains that in the right battle, there can be no wrong result. Defeat is possible only when one is fighting the wrong battle. If you find yourself defeated regularly, you should know that you have picked up a battle that you should never have been fighting in the first place. The mind is shaken up, impacted, and hurt by an external happening, which is what we call defeat. However, this defeat is not the result of a particular action or event. Every defeat is a defeat right from the inception of the action that at some point hurts. If you are fighting a battle and somewhere along the way the process or the result starts hurting you, it only means that you started from a position of inadequacy and incompleteness in the very first place. We are often more concerned about winning and losing than simply knowing whether we are fighting the right battle. If you are fighting the wrong battle and you win, it is worse than losing. A wrong battle is one that is needless, just as incompleteness is needless. It is unnecessarily there, has no utility, and has no real existence. Even if it is not there, there would be peace; in fact, only if it is not there, there would be peace. We are great losers in life not because we meet with regular defeats, but because we are fighting the wrong battles. Most of our effort, conflict, and strife is simply unnecessary. Man has only two options. Either see who you are and what you have and delight in it, simply feel grateful. Or, do not see who you are and what you have, and keep wallowing in self-pity and incompleteness, and therefore keep picking unnecessary battles. The more you pick unnecessary battles, the more you will feel defeated, and the more you feel defeated, the more will be the urge to fight another unnecessary battle. It's a downward spiral. To avoid this, one must fight for the right cause and let it consume them fully, as that is the only way of living life. Fight for the right one and devote yourself totally to him. Give yourself up so totally that you cannot be blamed for having reserved anything for your personal self. Don't cut corners, don't hold back, and don't be compartmentalized between personal and professional life. Devote the last ounce of yourself, your energy, your flesh, everything. That is the only way to ensure that you are never defeated. The final arbitrator is peace—the final judge. If you are peaceful, then whatever you are doing is right. No means is bigger than the end. Peace is the beginning and the end.