चलती चाकी देख कर

चलती चाकी देख कर, दिया कबीरा रोय | दुई पाटन के बीच में फँस के, साबित बचा न कोय ||

Looking at the rotating flour grinding stone mill, Kabir weeps; Between the two stones nothing remains as it was.

Kabir laments the ephemeral state of all things in the mill of the Absolute Consciousness, as a result of the interplay between the aakash(sky) and prithvi(earth) which resemble the rotating stones of the manual grinder,the sky and earth combination in turn representing the energy and matter, supreme consciousness and human soul, seer and seen, Absolute and non-Absolute; all living and non-living bodies are formed out of the elements and to the elements they merge later, the elements forming the matter also are constantly undergo change; Matter, Time and Space do not remain the same and their constituents are everchanging. Nothing but the Absolute is eternal and remains in the same state.

Translation by Arvind Mishra