Kabir wept at a grain mill turning between two stones: in the world's grinding duality, no one comes through whole. A Dohavali couplet on impermanence.
This is a short devotional couplet (a doha) from the Bhakti tradition that declares the Guru to be greater than even God (Govind), because the Guru is the one who shows the way to the divine.
This iconic Kabir doha teaches that the Guru is bowed to first, even before God, since it is the Guru's grace that reveals the Divine.
Kabir's couplet: the body dies again and again, yet desire and craving never die. A Dohavali verse on maya, the restless mind, and the work of letting go.
Kabir's well-known doha (Dohavali 210): the world wore itself out reading books, but only one who reads the two and a half letters of love is wise.