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A photograph of a small tiled room with a wooden beamed ceiling and a shrine decorated with flower garlands. A man on the left wears an orange sleeveless top and orange dhoti, with a white flower garland on his head, and raises one arm high. Beside him, a man in orange robes holds a brass plate of offerings and fruit, smiling. A woman in a cream sari with gold bangles and glasses stands next to him with her hands together, and an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands at the right with his arm raised near the doorway. Sandals rest on the floor. The scene appears to show a puja or aarti being performed at a home shrine.

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A small whitewashed room with a wooden beamed ceiling and a framed portrait garlanded with white jasmine and marigold flowers. A woman in orange sleeveless top with a white jasmine garland raises one arm toward the altar. A smiling woman in orange sari holds a silver tray of offerings. A woman in white and gold sari with gold bangles stands with palms pressed together in namaskar. A man in white shirt and dhoti, with a pink-smeared forehead, pours or sprinkles petals while another man in the background watches. Pink flower petals are scattered around. Setting appears to be a devotional or puja gathering.2010-02-15Photograph of a satsang hall where a man with long dark swept-back hair, wearing a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl and a long strand of gold-beaded ceremonial necklaces, raises his hand in blessing toward a devotee. Swamiji (probable): the long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and ornate gold necklaces match the page's note that he is present. Facing him, a man in white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala and gold bracelet joins his palms in namaskar, smiling. Behind them a man in a white shirt holds the blessing gesture area, and a monk in saffron stands at right holding a silver tray with offerings. A projector screen and a red-and-yellow banner hang on the pale pink wall behind.2011-02-27July 28 20082008-07-28A photograph inside a plain white-walled room during a home visit. In the centre, a woman with long dark hair, wearing a white flower garland and an orange sleeveless garment, stands before a framed devotional picture of a deity with white flower garlands and holds a lit flame toward a small shrine or offering spot. In the foreground right, a figure with long dark hair wears a saffron-yellow shawl with pink borders and is seen from behind. A man in white stands at left, and a boy with his palms pressed together stands at the doorway at right, looking toward a room with green leaves hanging above the door. Visible people number about four, with additional partial figures in the doorway area.2010-02-17A photograph inside a small room with a wooden beamed ceiling, a window and tiled walls. A man in saffron-orange robes and a long white flower garland stands at left, hands raised in blessing toward people prostrating on a patterned tile floor. Two men in white dhotis and shirts bow low, one touching his forehead to the floor and another pressed flat with hands extended. Behind them a second man in orange robes stands with hands folded at his chest near a shrine with a framed picture, a decorated deity murti and flower offerings.2010-02-15July 28 20082008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28A photograph of a devotional gathering indoors beside a garlanded shrine with marigold and white flower garlands and red and yellow blooms. On the left, a bare-chested figure in orange cloth with long dark hair reaches toward a bowed woman in a white sari with a gold border, who is receiving a gold-coloured thread or chain being fastened by a man in a white shirt and white dhoti. Behind them, a smiling man in an orange garment stands with palms joined, and on the right a young man in a white shirt and white dhoti with gold border stands with hands folded in namaste. Brass lamps and a framed picture are visible on the shrine ledge.2010-02-15July 28 20082008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28A photograph inside a bare white-walled room with a wooden door and tiled floor. A man in an orange turban, orange robe and dark rudraksha mala with a white and red flower garland smiles and extends his hand toward a brass aarti lamp held by a man in white shirt and dhoti. Behind him stands another person in orange robes holding a plate. At left an older woman in orange-bordered sari presses her palms together, and at right a woman in a cream sari with gold border has her hands joined in namaste. The flame suggests an aarti ritual.2008-07-28A man in saffron-orange robes with a white and multicoloured flower garland stands at a home shrine, holding a lit oil lamp toward the altar with his hands while performing aarti. Behind him on the wall is a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" of a young man in a white turban, decorated with garland of flowers. The altar holds a brass lamp, flowers, a brass plate and a framed deity image. To the right, a man in an orange robe stands with palms pressed together, a woman in a cream and gold sari with gold bangles stands with palms joined, and a man in a white shirt and glasses also joins his palms. The room has a wood-beamed ceiling and a tiled floor.2010-02-15