3 Lessons From Guru Nanak on Contentment That Every Middle-Class Indian Needs Right Now
Aishwarya Kapoor | Times Life Bureau | Jul 10, 2026, 07:40 IST
3 Lessons From Guru Nanak on Contentment That Every Middle-Class Indian Needs Right Now
Image credit : Times Life Bureau
The middle-class Indian household runs a quiet engine of more, a bigger flat, a school fee that signals arrival, a phone upgrade before the last EMI clears. Guru Nanak called this the thirst that drinking only deepens. His teaching of santokh is not a call to stop wanting. It is a precise diagnosis of why desire, left unchecked, produces exhaustion rather than satisfaction.
...