A Kabir doha (verse epigram)

माटी कहे कुम्हार से, तु क्या रोंदे मोय ।
एक दिन ऐसा आएगा मै रौंदुगी तोय ।।

The earth speaks to the potter
you can squeeze me that much?
how long till the day when
I shall squeeze thee that much?

Kabir says

Hope counsels the life-breath:
patience is required!
pearls you can find scott-free
while grain's got a price-tag!

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aas kah rahi shwaas se, dheeraj rakhna seekh
bin maange moti mile, maange mile na bheekh

after Kabir

A dog am I and my master's Ram
around my neck he a chain has drawn
whatever way he's inclined the leash
that very way has my saunter gone