Muktãnand Swãmi then asked, "It is extremely difficult for a person to attain God. Moreover, there is no greater benefit and no greater bliss than attaining God. Why, then, do people forsake such immense bliss and strive agonisingly for worthless objects? That is the question."
Shriji Mahãrãj said, "Here, I shall answer that. When one ignores the injunctions of God and begins to stray away from them, one suffers. On the other hand, if one acts according to those injunctions, one will experience the true bliss of God. So, in fact, one suffers only to the extent that one transgresses the injunctions of God. Therefore, renunciants should live according to the injunctions that have been prescribed for renunciants, and householders should live according to the injunctions that have been prescribed for householders. One suffers to the extent that one lapses in observing these injunctions."
 

[Gadhadã I-34]