Mehta’s wantless individual would have satisfied his elemental desires for basic necessities. The problem arises when this bound is crossed or raised. New wants emerge for so called luxuries, which soon become necessities for comforts and as newer luxuries emerge, there is perpetual disequilibrium. To overcome this, one has to overcome imperfections, impurities and find ones true self. Then one will not be a slave to his wants. To approach this state of wantlessness one has to discipline his bodily existence, by understanding the temporary nature of satisfaction one gets from the growing wants beyond their basic necessities. Then society does not set out with activities that would generate more and more goods which would, in turn, generate scarcity of resources.

In Mehta’s wantlessness there is no room for scarcity as there is no room for unsustainable resource use. His theory of wantlessness provides insights that help move towards ‘sustainable development’.