7. God's first secret
Do you knowWhat God told me the other day?
I am telling you
In top secrecy.
If you breathe a word to God
I shall never tell you anything again.
Remember, be careful!
Needless to say,
God has shared with me
Millions of His sacred secrets.
Now I shall share with you
His first secret:
    At the end of your journey’s close
    Your epitaph will read
    ‘An unfulfilled tear of God’;
    My epitaph will read
    ‘A fulfilled smile of God.’
Remember, be careful!
If you breathe a word to God
I shall not share anything else with you;
    No, not even the precise hour
    of your God-realisation
    Which God told me
    Only this morning
    In top secrecy.
Sri Chinmoy, The Golden Boat, part 6, Vishma Press, 1974