The Emotions of Martin

I thought Sulpicius’ description of Martin’s emotions was interesting. It is interesting that Martin seems to have the same laudable qualities as the stoics. No one sees him angry, upset, sad or laughing. Martin keeps himself at a stoic middle in the handling of all matters. But while it is impossible for the stoics to achieve the perfection of stoicism associate with the “sage”, Martin does have an emotion the “happiness from heaven” that he bear on his face. It is a sort of interesting divergence. The stoic wants complete control of his emotions, as does the monk, but the monk also is blessed by divine bliss (for a lack of a better term). I assume then that this divine bliss is not of the more secular emotions that could lead one astray, but rather it is the bearing that one achieves after reaching a certain level of enlightenment through Christ, a Nirvana of sorts. Actually, I rather like Nirvana as a description of Martin’s state; Martin is outside of secular cares, has reached enlightenment of Christ, and now he goes through the murk of the worldly matters to help and enlighten others. Martin is a yogi; after all Sulpicius says that Martin seems outside the nature of humans. Would this divine bliss separate Martin from the stoics? Or is there an idea that once a stoic has achieved complete dominion of his emotions and state of mind, he would be blessed with a certain happiness(?), contentment, that he is outside of the normal struggles of man? Of course, slightly counter to what Sulpicius says of Martin emotional control, Martin is described as weeping over the sins of other. I guess since the source of the weeping is pure and pious it makes the weeping itself of the same nature as his “caelestam laetitiam”; perhaps even that happiness is why he weeps, sort of a direct cause, because he sees from a place of bliss how fallen a certain sinner might be.  I would also imagine that the difference lies primarily in the use of “rideo” for what no one sees and the “laetitiam” that Martin has; rideo referring to laughter/smiling without the understanding of the cause for it, or as another way in which one might be to luxurious with his/her emotions, whereas the laetitia is a state of grace made clear by the corresponding adjective “caeles”.