St Kabeer Couplets 13: Clay To Potter Man

Clay clamours to potter man: Too proud, today ye pound me, A day will one day dawn, when I’d smother the mortal thee. __________________________________ mati kahe kumhar se, tu kya raunde moye, ek din aisa ayega mein raundungi toye. The wheel of life turns round and round. One day it goes upward and then downward turns. Good and bad tidings alternate. It helps if one bears this in mind. A potter man was preparing his clay for his wheel by crushing it under his feet to smoothen it into a uniform lump. The clay seems to tell him: Today you are stomping me under your feet, but wait, a day is going to come when you would die and get buried under soil. Then, you too would be treated the same way.