Many a time one finds himself helpless before situations which evoke laughter, even though one may also have wished not to have laughed. As an experience of the soul, man is quite familiar with what laughter is. He is also aware that it holds many a therapeutic gain and advantage for him, yet without really understanding what laughter really is.
From the stage of human spirit-germ of development to this point of haven attained to "ego-consciousness", all has been experiencing for man. Growing in the maturity of the recognition of God, either by way of daily experiencing, or by gain of revelative knowledge. And in this, man is apt to arrive at points where he expresses gratitude to God for all that has helped him through. Depending on how he is attuned at the moment, it is either he is in the looking up to God, unto Whom he expresses words of gratitude, or he assumes a mind of freeness, from which arises joy as his expression of gratitude to God. Nevertheless, notwithstanding what kind of spiritual state he may find himself in, in laughter filters out a measure of expressional of gratitude to God, for haven permitted the goodness of life to be.
At the very first instance, he cannot immediately become joyous, since he must at first conquer his new environment, which must have been strange to him. Through acclimatization to his new environment, as he opens his eyes to the world around him, in trust and confidence to God, everywhere he goes he is bewildered with the great provisions of Nature, which compels him to show appreciation … in joyousness. Inspiring him with the feeling of being well cared for by God, happiness and joy arise in him, as a sure expression of his gratitude to God. For which he also gets spiritually uplifted.
From the spiritual angle, joy is an affirmation of the beauty and pleasure of God's Creation. It unlocks the spirit from the rigid framework of the binding intellect; and as such, when expressed through laughter, becomes a most formidable weapon against the darkness. As soon as a man can indulge in healthy hearty laughter, then, automatically, he releases himself, that is, his soul into the protective Arms of the Creator. Secluding himself from all preponderance, he opens his soul into the Light embrace of God's Power, before which all darkness flee.
Thus every act of pure laughter therefore also brings out the beauty in man. For as it frees the soul of the restrictive pressures of fate on it, it allows only the pure light of soul to manifest from within, which reflects a certain measure of childlikeness in man. Which as we know, is a stepping on ladder to the kingdom of God.
Hence it is impossible to find one's way back to God without the due appreciation of the goodness of God, in its beauty and upon the humility of soul. Together with childlikeness, these heavenly qualities of Light uplifts the spirit into heights unimagined, because they can free the spirit, as well as raise it to immeasurable or corresponding heights of grace and being.
Through indulgence in unruly and malicious laughter, which is a state that mars the true unveiling of the mystic effect of laughter, man ruins himself. Unknown to him he makes himself highly vulnerable to the darkness, with very little capability of self-defense. Bound therewith to the darkness, at the dueness of time the darkness creeps in unnoticed, making use of the individual without his knowing of it, until it drives him to crime.
The enlivening of oneself with laughter is a gift that must be appreciated by man. Demanding a cautious restraint as well. God's gift of laughter is for the restoration of one's heart of self-consciousness by releasing the bonds that fetter it down. Man should use it gratefully, and not maliciously. For in it lies also the power of restoration of self-beauty.
