Acharya Prashant explains the nature of a 'right battle' using the analogy of a long, drawn-out tennis match against a formidable opponent. After such a grueling five-hour, five-set match, the winner doesn't celebrate but crashes from exhaustion. This is the nature of the right battle; you will never be left alive and remaining to celebrate a victory. The right battle is one that consumes you entirely. He points out that many epic and heroic tales of war and victory end with the death of the protagonist. The war is won, but the hero is gone. Citing the poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', he explains that when the war is real, it will consume you. If you are left alive at the end of the war, it is a disrespect to the war because it means you did not offer it everything. The right war is one that does not leave you with anything, probably not even with your life. Such a war cannot begin from the center of accumulation. It has to begin rightly. The speaker refers to Kabir Saheb, who says that his warrior gets his head chopped off before he sets out to war. This means he does not get his head chopped off in the war; he has to begin rightly. Chopping one's head off means chopping off the intention to get or accumulate. One must not proceed from the point of incompleteness, because if one starts with incompleteness, one would want to gather and accumulate. That which could feel incomplete has already been chopped off. We start wrongly, which is why we end at the wrong places. You are either a winner right at the outset of the war, or you remain a perpetual and terrible loser. The spectacle of defeat scares not only the defeated but also the so-called winners. A winner who is afraid of defeat has not been able to win over fear. If one lives in a needless feeling of littleness, pettiness, inferiority, and victimhood, then one's life is just an agonizing series of defeats. Even if the entire world declares you a winner, in your own mind, you would still be a loser within your own self.