If all this talk about transmitting on mental channels made any sense to you, good. You're now in a much better position to understand kalpa, Vedic ritual science. Or, as it's rather naively called in the West, " ritual magic".
Rituals must be performed with focused attention and exactly correct pronunciation of exactly the correct mantras so that exactly the right waves of mental energy broadcast out into the subtle worlds, reshaping reality to the desired effect. Thought energy is considered extremely powerful (and even potentially dangerous ) in the Vedic tradition when it is intensely focused.
Particular rituals were established by enlightened sages and have been performed millions of times over the years by successive generations of priests. This is believed to make them particularly super-changed because a priest who enacts a ritual today is "riding" on waves of energy generated by numberless priests who enacted the rituals in previous centuries.
Rules for ritual science are incredibly elaborate and must be followed to the latter. One slip of the tongue or a part of the ritual performed out of order can sabotage even a multimillion-dollar, 108-day rite. Brahmin priests specialize in different components of ritual science. It's so complex no one person can master the entire field.
Traditional Vedic rituals are performed primarily by brahmin priests. For a few special rites, their wives are required to join in. In the last few decades, as young brahmin men have been abandoning their traditional rites going in some communities. Increasingly, women are filling the priestly job openings vacated by brahmin men.
Many communities cannot afford to have a brahmin preform their rituals for them. So members of other castes, who strike their neighbors as especially spiritually gifted, are called upon to perform rituals on their community's behalf. Rites performed by brahmins have more cache, but rituals performed by priests from other castes are effective for most practical purposes.
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