the world is a battlefield

The Bhagavad Gita didn’t teach Arjuna to be a lazy mendicant. Rather, Arjuna was the most determined and effective fighter in the whole battlefield. Why? Because he had the highest purpose in which he fought. He was fighting for Krishna; he was not fighting for his own vices. When you graduate from college, you will find out very quickly (or you may have already found out) that this world is a battlefield. This is fact. No matter what field of activity you take, it is a battlefield. Even if you take the occupation of a simple sadhu like myself, it is a constant battle, what to speak if you go into the field of business where the competition is so fierce at every step there are people are out there to cut each others' throats for money. 

And what to speak if you are just trying to be ethical and moral! The propaganda of de-morality is just bombarding you, bombarding your family, bombarding your children from all sides. This world is a battlefield. And Bhagavad Gita does not teach us how to run from the problems, does not teach us how to run from crisis, it teaches us how to stand up and fight in divine consciousness with all power and strength of God behind us, with the purest motivation, and in a state of real peace, in the light of all opposition. 

If you can learn that type of self-management, you will be perfectly successful in life, materially, spiritually.