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
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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.

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  • contentment
  • Nanak
  • Gurbani
  • santokh
  • Indians
  • desire
  • simplicity
  • wealth
  • gratitude
  • Indian