Frits Staal, a specialist while in the study of Vedic ritual and mantras, clarifies that mantras will not be rituals, they are what is recited or chanted throughout a ritual.[6] Staal[6] offers a non-linguistic perspective of mantras. He implies that verse mantras are metered and harmonized to mathematical precision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjMeUz17Ro