One may raise an objection that it was simply fiction or fraud of cunning brahmanas striving for the power over people. But here it is important to consider that it was before the eyes of the whole society how brahmanas lived a completely pure and ascetic (full of deprivations) lives. They were usually very ascetic, lived in privacy and possessed otherworldly powers which removed the need for a lie or trick. They could simply affect people to get what they wanted like modern paranormalists do without showing any miracles. Then, there was no need for a lie. Here there is one very important circumstance. Material consciousness (strive for sense pleasure and power) requires a limiting factor. In the Aryan society, laborers-servants, producers-merchants were controlled by the power of leaders. Leaders were controlled by priests. And who controlled priests themselves? Priests were controlled by God. This point is very vulnerable. For hundreds of years, pseudo-religious persons made people unhappy in that very point. If a priest like a very common person is influenced by desires (attachments) and hatred (enmity), then religion is the most comfortable way to control people. All religious personalities did and do it this way except for ascetics. Ascetics take a renounced lifestyle and eventually their hearts are purified from binding ties of attachments and hatred. The Bhagavad-Gita describes the specific mood as the symptom of self-realization (chapter 2, verse 56):
One whose mind remains undisturbed amidst misery, who does not crave for pleasure, and who is free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.
From the viewpoint of common values, this verse is very puzzling by offering to tolerate happiness just like suffering! At first sight, this proposal is very strange. Soul’s blissful nature instantly enjoys everything which brings us happiness and rejects suffering. What does Krishna mean? In fact, the material happiness delays the return of the soul to the spiritual world just as suffering. This verse suggests us that only one who is free from attachments and hatred can keep balance both in happiness and suffering.
Attachments appear in communication. An ascetic brings communication to the possible minimum. Due to it, ascetic’s heart becomes free from material impurity and gets a balanced nature. A human life can be entrusted only to this balance, while brahmanas were advisors of society and, consequently, they were responsible for the course and the result of a human life. When a brahmana reached the perfection in purity, sacrifices made by such brahmana were like a miracle, and this circumstance helped society to trust this brahmana. When the Lord together with the demigods visited the arena of sacrifice, He showed everyone that advices of this brahmana could be trusted. When the Lord or the demigods did not come, their dissatisfaction became obvious and society expected troubles. The Vedic literature also contains such stories. Hence, the chain of control became perfect, the assessment of the activity of all links in the social chain was given at that time. If the Lord was satisfied with the interchange of all society layers, He appeared and satisfied everybody’s desires. When a brahmana is not pure, such person is not able to invite the Lord, and then society has to satisfy its desires by material methods. Contest and fight begin, thus the balance is broken. How do these religious figures act to hide their own deficiency? They declare that to see God is not possible .