{"id":2465,"date":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/10\/2002-10-10-refresher-course-for-durga-puja-priests\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","slug":"2002-10-10-refresher-course-for-durga-puja-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/10\/2002-10-10-refresher-course-for-durga-puja-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Refresher Course for Durga Puja Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.sify.com\/cgi-bin\/sifynews\/news\/content\/news_fullstory_v2.jsp?article_oid=12009005&#038;category_oid=-20611&#038;page_no=1\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, October 8, 2002: Bangiyo Purohit Sabha, an organization of priests, has organized refresher courses, Pourahitya Prashikshan Sibir, training for performing pujas (ritual worship), at Sobhabazar Rajbari to assist priests in performing the rituals of Durga Puja in a &#8221;perfect and professional way.&#8221; According to Sabha Secretary Ram Gopal Shastri, who also runs a Sanskrit academy at Thakurpukur, priest work has ceased to be an attractive profession for the younger generation. &#8221;There is a serious need to train priests to perform the worship correctly,&#8221; Shastri said, lamenting that most of the present-day priests lacked adequate knowledge in Sanskrit. &#8221;Respect for the priests can be regained only when they perform the rituals with perfection and for that purpose, the refresher courses can be of great importance,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, October 8, 2002: Bangiyo Purohit Sabha, an organization of priests, has organized refresher courses, Pourahitya,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}