In order to receive the Taksu, we must give offerings and recite mantras before and after every performance. On tourism's impact Hotels make us shorten our dance from 25 minutes to five. If you dance at the hotel every night for a living, you don't have a lot of energy, not the same soul inspiration as when you dance at the temple or for rites of passage like the tooth filing ceremony or weddings. Certain sacred dances shouldn't be performed in hotels. On village obligations and ceremonies We have so many ceremonies that take so much time and money.
People are too proud, spending hundreds of dollars and getting in trouble financially.
There is a movement now to simplify ceremonies, like holding collective cremations and tooth-filings. On the strength of the next generation Many families can't afford to send their kids to normal schools, so kids go to the Christian schools and get converted. Our youth need to be well educated in Hinduism. They learn some in school, but just at surface level. They only get taught in depth every six months, so we need more frequent teaching programs.