Death, how do you know?

Death, how do you know
That you do not give us
A false rest?

"Pilgrim, how do you know
That your life on earth
Is not a splendid illusion?"

Death, I know that my life on earth
Is not an illusion
    Because
    I play here on earth
    With God and His Sound-Life.

"Pilgrim, come and enter into me.
You will see me playing
    With God and His Silence-Soul."
Sri Chinmoy, The silence of death, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1973