@Spirit_Hindutva @Mahesh_Uvacha Let’s do that by all means. Why does that require interference in the few temples that have a family (not even a jAti) as the hereditary purohits? When there are others that are open and several more that can be constructed and kept open? I don’t see any value in disrupting….

@Spirit_Hindutva @Mahesh_Uvacha …an existing tradition, rather than only back stopping it (in case a new Gen person in a purohits family doesn’t carry forward the inheritance) and supplementing it by creating many more new temples which can ofc be open and have some simple crash course level purohita knowledge

@Spirit_Hindutva @Mahesh_Uvacha And it will never be a “coveted profession” because its spirit normatively should be one of service to the deity out of a sense of ritual obligation, not something that can be compared to regular professions in terms of career path, compensation etc. This operates in a..:::

@Spirit_Hindutva @Mahesh_Uvacha …different way. How I wound reframe that is to say - how can we instil that sense of inherited obligations and service to the deity in new generations of Purohitas, and how can all of us in wider society support them such that it isn’t a life of such hardship that they leave it