Human life finds purpose and happiness only through sacrifice offered to please the Supreme Lord.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Gaura-Premanandi. Hari Haribol. [aside:] that's alright... [break] [26:50] evaṃ pravartitaṃ cakraṃ nānuvartayatīha yaḥ aghāyur indriyārāmo moghaṃ pārtha sa jīvati [Bg 3.16] [My dear Arjuna, a man who does not follow this prescribed Vedic system of sacrifice certainly leads a life of sin, for a person delighting only in the senses lives in vain.] Lord Kṛṣṇa, now He has described about a circle of activity ending in yajña, sacrifice. Yajña...
Yajña, the proper word yajña, means Viṣṇu or the Supreme Lord. And another meaning of yajña is sacrifice. So that sacrifice is how to do. That we have been discussing for the last three or four days, that yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ [Bg 3.13]. [The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat 1 food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.] Our whole trouble of life, this material existence, it is, according to Vedic literature, this is our condemned life, material, because I am put into a different atmosphere, this body, which I am not. The body is matter, and I am spirit soul. So I have been put into uncomfortable position by this material contact. So the human life is developed consciousness. So he has to learn it, and he can get rid of this material existence by the process which is prescribed in authoritative scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Vedic literatures.
So the first process Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is advises that... Not only He advises; it is advised in the..., all the Vedas, that "You should sacrifice, perform sacrifices." kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṃ tretāyāṃ yajato makhaiḥ dvāpare paricaryāyāṃ kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt [SB 12.3.52] [Whatever result was obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices, and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet can be obtained in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.] The whole process of human civilization should be to acquire love of God. Our love is now distributed in so many things. And that is misdistributed.
The whole thing was to be targeted to the Supreme Lord. I was to love God, but instead of loving God, my love is distributed in so many things. And that is a misdirected civilization. How it is misdirected? Suppose if I do not love God—if I love my wife, my children, my countrymen—what is the wrong there?
Oh, there is great wrong. That you do not know. That is most unscientific. Without loving God, if I want to love my wife, that love is not perfect.
Therefore so-called love is disrupted by divorce and so many things, because that is not perfect love. We do not know what is perfect love and how to conduct it. That is the defect of our civilization. Which we are accepting as love, that is simply a desire for sense gratification. That is not love.
Love is different thing. So because... Why the love is defective in the material world? Because it is not properly discharged.