In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna says (Chapter 3, verses 10 and 15):

To satisfy the Lord, it is required to make sacrifices and for these sacrifices to be accepted pure persons are needed. These pure persons are brahmanas. The condition of society was dependent on their qualifications. Where qualified brahmanas live, God Himself lives. Brahmanas have got different qualifications. The simplest brahmanas were those who studied the karma-kanda section of the Vedas, lived a pure life and made sacrifices for fulfillment of material desires by religious methods. They were responsible for material prosperity of society and the minimal spiritual development.

Sacrifices were the axis of the activity of the Aryan society. Here the subject for a serious discussion is raised. In fact, the Vedic literature is full of descriptions of sacrifices; for a modern man their process and especially the results are unclear and unreliable. So, there is the need for the answer on the most important question: what was God-centeredness of the Aryan society based on? The answer on this question hides the difference between pseudo-religious and the Aryan societies. The Aryan literature is full of descriptions of meetings with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No any other ancient and even more modern literature contains detailed descriptions of the personality of Godhead, the demigods and other personalities coming to us from different planets. It seems so impossible that modern scientists declare such descriptions fiction or revaluation of really existing “lesser mortals” who had displayed some incredible capabilities and therefore were worshiped on the same basis as gods. On the one hand, the Vedic literature includes very serious knowledge and till now its secrets have remained inaccessible to modern scientists, philosophers and ordinary people. On the other hand, incredible events, from our view point, are described there. Such contradiction makes the Vedas something unclear for people with secular mind habits.

In order to look no fool, people try to select from the Vedic literature aspects which seem to them believable and clever and reject those things which look like a fiction. The chaos is created in which the final goal of the Vedas remains inaccessible to the majority except for those who study them under the guidance of a genuine spiritual master. The secret is the Vedas shall be conceived comprehensively for their intrinsic meaning to unfold. Otherwise, they cannot be applied but can only serve as the basis for different philosophic contentions. In fact, things in the Vedas which seem incredible are the results which one receives by following them. If one follows the principles described in the Vedas, such person really gets those results which are described by the Vedas and which seem incredible to us. In fact, if there are no such results, then there is no need to follow the Vedas.

If Vyasadeva (the author of the Vedas) was such a serious personality that he described the most innermost secrets both of the material and spiritual knowledge, then why at the same time would he describe events which make the Vedas look like fiction? If the person’s goal is to be accepted and to create a serious scripture, then what is the reason to fill this scripture with fictions or exaggerations which can be appropriate only for sentimental people and might also raise doubts in the minds of pragmatists? If the author is a serious person and his goal is to be useful, he will try to write about the truth acceptable for serious people. So what is the reason that Vyasadeva safely writes that demigods and God (Vishnu) personally attended the sacrificial arena, if they became satisfied? Why did Vyasadeva need this senseless fiction? Either he is a lying swindler and one who believes him is a fool or he tells the truth and then we must try to understand him. With regard to the author of such philosophic tractate as Vedanta-sutra it is not possible to apply the term “lying swindler”. All that is left is to accept descriptions of unaccustomed events as real and then we have to try to understand why these events took place in the past and do not happen now?

Any civilization leaves behind the descriptions of that reality in which it existed. Nowadays, for instance, the Lord never visits the planet and that is why there are no such descriptions. If even in one thousand years our descendants find the remains of the modern literature or scientific tractates, they will never contain description of God as in the modern life there are merely no contacts with God by representatives of various religions. The Hebrew book (the Old Testament) describes as some ascetics heard God’s voice or saw Him as the flame, but there are no descriptions of His personality anywhere. The Ancient Greeks communicated with demigods and respectively described such communication but there are no descriptions of communication with God because there was no such communication, the same was with the Egyptian civilization, etc.

When describing the social life especially referring to ways how to settle arising problems, the Aryan literature says that the Aryans tried to solve these problems with the help of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or the demigods (aliens). There was the method by which the Aryans invited them to their planet and asked to resolve emerging problems. This method was the sacrifice. When it was accepted, the Lord together with the demigods visited the arena of sacrifice. What did Lord’s satisfaction depend on? First of all, it depended on the brahmanas’ qualifications. There was the requirement for their perfect purity, both external and internal. Secondly, there was the requirement for the purity of the environment and attributes offered to the Lord and the demigods. Gold is deemed to be a pure element and therefore for Vedic sacrifices it was needed in great amounts. During the process of sacrifice the Lord and demigods were offered gold, grains, melted butter, etc. In some cases there were sacrifices of a horse, a goat or a bull. But Vedic sacrifices were in principle different from modern ones. By sacrifice, not only material problems were solved but brahmanas proved their purity and the wonderful power coming from it. The peculiarity of the Aryan society was that it was God-centered on the basis not only of faith in God but the real communication with Him. This statement sounds for modern people as if mocking their life experience. But until this difference is understood we won’t be able to comprehend why the Aryan system of values and their social structure are more preferable. The unique trait of this society is in this very fact that it is in the position to assert the real connection with God and His servants (demigods) and solve arising problems with their help; this indeed makes the Aryans unique (not the type of the head, skin tone or heroism).

The life of the Aryans depended on meetings with God. For His satisfaction, the purity was required. Such purity was possessed by brahmanas (priests). For ordinary people, the idea of God is mysterious. Christ was “made” to work wonders all the time for his preaching to have any effect. Ordinary people manifesting desires for sense pleasure are egocentric and as a rule have got a limited focus of interest. It is a very hard labor to direct such people to the sphere of the spiritual life. The system of varnashrama-dharma is proposed to living beings inhabiting the material world by God Himself and it exists in order to provide a happy life and the minimal spiritual progress. Brahmanas’ duty is to establish the connection between the society and God by means of sacrifices. Ordinary people do not like to accept regulating principles of behavior. We can see that typically a religion cannot keep people within virtue limits (certainly if it is not done through violence). But they are greatly impacted by a miracle. In the Aryan society, there also took place such a miracle which kept all its members within the limits of certain behavior. During the sacrifice, a horse, a goat or a bull could be offered as a sacrifice. If this sacrifice was accepted, before everybody’s eyes the animal got a new body and came out of the fire.