In India still, the people spend as much as possible in the marriage ceremony—millions of dollars. If one man is rich, he'll spend for his son's marriage or daughter's marriage. That is a great credit, "Oh, this man is very rich man. He's spending so much money." So there are so many religious performances, ritualistic performances. You have to spend money, so you must find out so many performances. So they have all these in the śāstras.
So Nārada Muni says that, "What is this, marriage ceremony? The marriage ceremony is to allow the boy and the girl for legitimate sex life. That's all. So that propensity he has already got. And what is the use of making such propaganda and spending so much money?" Very practical proposition. But in the śāstras there are. Similarly, drinking or meat-eating. According to Vedic śāstra, meat-eating is not allowed by purchasing from the slaughterhouse. No. They . . . there is motive. The marriage ceremony or the meat-eating, the so much ritualistic performances, there is motive. What is that motive? Motive is restriction.
Just like the same example, marriage—the real idea is to restrict the boy and the girl to one woman and one man. That is the idea, main idea. If he's not married, then he will be just like cats and dogs. So idea is very good. But Nārada Muni says: "After all, you're coming to the point of sex life. So why so much propaganda?"