the fourth jhana, which is experienced as suffering-free, pleasure-free and made clear by indifference and turning inwards.” However, let us return to the requirement of the mystical teaching that a human is to be joyful. We have already said that the mystical goal is beyond the celestial worlds, which in humans are symbolised by joyfulness and supersensory happiness. Joyfulness, as well as supersensory happiness, is physically felt just like as obstinacy, pessimism, anger and other negative inner and mental states. A person formed internally in the usual way is, however, always closer to these negative inner and mental states than to the states of causeless joyfulness. He or she is even hardly able to understand why they shouldn’t rather get angry than rejoice without a cause, since, for their anger they have mostly immediate and real reasons. However, here we are talking about mysticism and its goal. As, from the perspective of mysticism, those immediate and real reasons for their anger are also relative. Even if we leave aside the fact that the anger of a person always springs from their selfishness, by their sensory cravings, a general relativity, which also includes burning personal pains, pains which are flamingly urgent and according to their manifestations real, still remains. It is a matter of fact, that a person can laugh even at these pains and, very often, when they already laugh at them, these pains will themselves prove to be relative. As, on the other hand, we can often observe in others that there is no more reason for their suffering, but, nevertheless, they still suffer because, to speak with irony, they fell in love with their suffering. After all, a rational person can always well understand that life consists of both pleasant and painful moments of emotional experience. When they understand this, they are already close to a philosophical discovery, that suffering as well as crazy joyfulness is only a matter of spirit and thus no one needs to suffer, but only to rejoice. However, this is not the aim of mysticism, since it is an entirely factual teaching. It only has in view the fact that the mystical goal is even beyond the celestial worlds, into which a subject can get only by causeless joyfulness. From that follows, that, as the usual human set-up shows evidence of oscillation from suffering to some pleasant sensory excitements, this has to be altered by laying down only one line for it, a line of causeless joyfulness, which is a path to heaven. A student of mysticism necessarily has to rejoice, because it means to get from the path of ascending towards joyfulness and then again descending into multiple hardships, to a path which is always ascending, first towards the consolidation of joyful moods and later to heavenly, and then superheavenly states. However, the passage from the fluctuating path, to the path which is constantly ascending requires an intervention into the innate laziness or a seeming inability to govern one’s own states, one self. That is, though, difficult. Experience will, however, show that this difficulty isn’t great. For, when a habit of rejoicing is created, the joyfulness will often seize a person and then it only suffices to be attentive, not to let it disappear in the flood of accidental daily events and circumstances. Spirituality Studies 1 (2) Fall 2015 37 (5)
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