If you qualified for their help by being a member of an upper class and you had a problem or wanted to express your gratitude to a particular deity, you could go to a Vedic Priest who would perform a fire ritual for you, chanting the appropriate sacred hymns.
In olden times, the fire rituals often involved blood sacrifices. Animals like goats were commonly sacrificed; on rare occasions other creatures, such as horse, might be offered.
Most Hindus abandoned animal sacrifice many centuries ago. Today priests offer objects such as flowers, grains, clarified butter, fragrant-smelling wood, and herbs into the sacred fire. The Vedic fire rituals are no longer practiced as widely as they used to be, but at certain major life events, like marriage, brahmin priests are called in, the ritual fire is lit, and once again the ancient mantras are chanted exactly as they have been at Hindu weddings for at least six thousand years.
Incidentally, I've attended numerous Vedic rituals and seen effects for myself. It's not unusual following one of these ceremonies for fantastically unlikely events to occur. The individual asking for offer right out of blue. Cancerous tumors go into remission. Business suddenly starts to boom after a several-year slump. We in the West are trained to call these events coincidences. I've seen some of the best-timed coincidences in the world right after a traditional Vedic fire offering is performed!
For the Western scientific mind, conciousness is rooted in matter. For the brahmin priest performing the fire ceremony, though matter is rooted in counciousness. Therefore, according to the Hindu laws of physics, if the brahmin sends out a message into the cosmic mind. " Kumar Sharma needs work! " it's not surprising to him when a job offer immediately materializes. It's par for the course.
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