From cradle to grave, the crazy joyfulness interchanges with inner pains up to desperation and due to that it happens that a human remains only a human, from birth until death. Emotional experience and moods are thus delimited in this way; although this delimitation is physically impalpable, it is solid, as if a person was internally enclosed by a fortress wall. Hope that an easy escape from this iron cell exists, is indeed unavailing, even though to countless people it seems like their spatial demarcation in psyche is chimerical, insubstantial. Because of this reason, it is essential to understand the psychological setting of physical beings as very solid and starkly real, no matter how unlimited we may find our possibilities are to supply ourselves with predominantly sensory joys. However, mystical development thrives only through a causeless joyfulness, produced and maintained by will, wanted and resisting every influence by which the Nature or worldly fate-related accidental events, would want to change this state. This kind of joyfulness is thus no longer produced by some change in the being – some feeling, some event, which then later only manifested itself by an overpowering, a carrying away of the person’s psyche. On the contrary, it is a joyfulness always guarded by will, which is always ready to intervene in a moment, when, due to some outer reasons, it weakens or disappears. In psychological terms this means that a person has internally taken hold of themselves and finally started to rule their psyche, while until then they were only a plaything of forces, which were rippling their psyche. From a straying, staggering, or “tossing” of their psyche, a direction has arisen, whose goal is a consolidation of joyfulness, which must no longer be for them “within the reach of their psychological arm”, but a state, which imprints optimism in the mind and consciousness and drives out every trace of pessimism. Mystically, this state means the attainment of a platform of experiencing of either paradisiacal or celestial, or supercelestial beings, according to the depth and purity of his or her joyfulness, as all beings of these three supertelluric spheres are categorised by the very degree or quality of their joyfulness. A human being has, perhaps due to their physical set-up, also a possibility to penetrate through the states of joyfulness into the superjoyous world, which is, from a mystical point of view, a state of salvation. However, this doesn’t depend on their will to set this target and then to reach it, for, to leave this world is never that easy. As, the path has to be determined by the moods of the being and not by the will. All joys, which were the ideal of a person, have to be experienced, even though they were superworldly joys and no matter how remote they were from sober reality. Due to this reason, yogic or in general every method of spiritual development, shortens the way to absolute emotional satisfaction of every individual by a systematic bathing of the body in supersensory bliss; only then a person finds themselves on a so-called spiritual path, on a path of spirit, which sinuates above the level of every kind of feeling. Those who would like to avoid this “roundabout way”, marked only by mood states, 34 (2) Květoslav Minařík
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