The Guru Granth Sahib treats lobh with a specific structural observation repeated across several hymns: greed is not resolved by acquiring what it currently wants, since satisfying one craving simply reveals or generates the next, a self renewing hunger the scripture compares to fire fed with fuel, growing rather than diminishing the more it consumes. This diagnosis places lobh in direct tension with Guru Nanak's teaching on kirat karo, honest labour, one of the three pillars of Sikh ethical life alongside naam japna, remembrance of the Name, and vand chakko, sharing with others, since the tradition explicitly commends earning a livelihood and providing for one's family while condemning the specific excess of accumulation pursued beyond need or hoarded rather than shared.
The Sikh institution of daswandh, voluntarily contributing a portion, traditionally a tenth, of one's income to charitable and communal purposes, functions in Sikh practice as a concrete structural counter to lobh, converting the discipline from a purely internal restraint into an ongoing communal habit with material consequence, langar, the free community kitchen found at every gurdwara, standing as its most visible institutional expression.