The Aryan society had such number of pure brahmanas of the highest qualification, thanks to them people saw the demigods and God, so that no question came up regarding His existence. The only problem was that everyone understood: the meeting with God was possible only thanks to the perfect purity which was provided by the perfect religious process. The Aryan society gained fantastic results only due to close relationships with demigods and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The brahmanas’ power was the basis for the prosperity of the whole society.
With powers available, there is always the danger to misuse them (apply unjustly). Therefore, no brahmana can be considered a person who possesses superhuman powers but has no self-control. Self-control means not to use own capacities to satisfy personal attachments and hatred. Self-control helps a brahmana to develop the forgiving nature. Brahmanas, thus, were focused to reach the Supreme Personality. They reached perfection of self-realization by restoring their spiritual nature and could accompany ordinary people to God and their superhuman powers were by-products of their ascetism.
In the life of society, brahmana’s clairvoyance played a very important role. This is a factor without which no society can exist. In the material world, availability of superhuman powers is the undeniable fact. All that remains is to find the point of their correct application. A secular society also uses services of various clairvoyants whose advices are followed by many leaders. What is the difference between a typical clairvoyant and a brahmana? The difference is in the source of the power, the world view which is served by this power, the life style and respective results. Brahmanas affirmed in self-realization are persons who get their powers from demigods or the Lord. This is the guarantee of the truth of the received information.
Modern clairvoyants get their powers from ghosts or inhabitants of lower planets called asuras. Therefore, we can see that the life style of modern clairvoyants is no way different from the life style of ordinary people. All of them are under the influence of the gunas of ignorance and passion with respective habits and consciousness. Passion makes them have personal interests and ignorance makes them lie and do violence to satisfy these interests. A modern clairvoyant makes the best efforts for anyone who has got in his/her hands to feel the constant need for his/her services like a drug addict. At first, to get one proved in their powers, they very often make such person free from suffering and later entail new troubles for a person to repeatedly resort to them and be dependent on them. It becomes possible because society allows clairvoyants to live a secular life.