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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
Bhāgavatam  says, therefore, that the prime duty of the human being is to satisfy the Supreme Lord by the performance of one's occupational duty. ( Bhāg.  1.2.13)
Let any man of any place of community, caste or creed be engaged in any sort of occupational duty, but he must agree to perform sacrifices as it is recommended in the scriptures for the particular place, time and person. In the Vedic literatures it is recommended that in Kali-yuga people engage in glorifying the Lord by chanting the holy name of  Kṛṣṇa  ( Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet ) without offense. By doing so one can be freed from all sins and thus can attain the highest perfection of life by returning home, back to Godhead. We have already discussed this more than once in this great literature in different places, especially in the introductory portion by sketching the life of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and still we are repeating the same with a view to bring about peace and prosperity in society.
The Lord has declared openly in the  Bhagavad-gītā  how He becomes pleased with us, and the same process is practically demonstrated in the life and preaching work of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The perfect process of performing  yajñas  or sacrifice to please the Supreme Lord Hari (the Personality of Godhead who gets us free from all miseries of existence) is to follow the ways of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in this dark age of quarrel and dissension.
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira had to collect heaps of gold to secure the paraphernalia for the horse sacrifice  yajña  in days of sufficiency, so we can hardly think of such performance of  yajñas  in these days of insufficiency and complete scarcity of gold. At the present moment  we have heaps of papers  and promises of their being converted into gold by economic development of modern civilization, and still there is no possibility of spending riches like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, either individually or collectively or by state patronization. Just suitable, therefore, for the age, is the method recommended by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in terms of the  śāstra . Such a method requires no expenditure at all and yet can award more benefit than other expensive methods of  yajña  performances.
The horse sacrifice  yajña  or cow sacrifice  yajña  performed by the Vedic regulations shouldn't be misunderstood as a process of killing animals. On the contrary, animals offered for the  yajña  were rejuvenated to a new span of life by the transcendental power of chanting the Vedic hymns, which, if properly chanted, are different from what is understood by the common layman. The  Veda-mantras  are all practical, and the proof is rejuvenation of the sacrificed animal.