Seven Steps to Awakening
4) Cognitive ecstasy (Pīti)
When the cognitive process was able to gain control over the blind and powerful affective process, the affective process became free from emotional disturbances, guilt and remorse. When the cognitive process was free and clear, the cognitive process experienced an inner peace that stands out of emotional disturbances, an ecstasy (pīti). With the experience of this cognitive ecstasy the muscles in the body relaxes (pīti manassa kāyaŋ passambhati). Thus is the gradual flow of events as one treads through the seven steps to awakening.