X. JOY

A distinction must be made betwéén Joy and Pleasure. The latter is superficial, the former is profound. Pleasure is the sensational aspect of a passing expérience, a cruder emotional reaction to a presented object; physical éléments predominate in it, and it is the contrary of pain. Pleasure and pain may co-exist, but only at différent levds of consciousness. Joy, on the other hand, is a gênerai personal attitude or orientation towards Ufe as a whole ; it is independent of any and every object or situation as immediately presented; it is self-afi5rmation in strength and confidence; it is the index of spiritual autonomy; it is the note struck by spiritual mastery ; it is an essential characteristic and property of the spiritual life ; it is not déterminai by circumstances, and retains its peculiar quaUtative (Kstinction even when it is *' three parts pain."

In figurative language, pleasure is like the short-lived effervescence of aerated water, Joy