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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.

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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.2010-02-15Indoor photograph in a bare white-walled room with a ceiling fan and small framed picture. A figure in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban, wearing a white and red flower garland, stoops forward with hands near the floor, receiving a pooja. Beside them a woman in orange sari holds a silver aarti plate with pink flowers, and another woman in orange stands behind. A man in white shirt and dhoti, holding a flower bundle, stands at right. A woman with flower-decorated hair in orange clothing faces the scene from left foreground. Visible people are in traditional orange and white devotional dress.2008-07-28Photograph 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.2011-02-27A photograph of a bright, white-walled indoor room where a young man in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban, wearing a white and red flower garland and rudraksha-style beads, holds a brass plate of offerings and a small flame. Beside him, two women in orange and peach saris stand with a plate of flower petals, and a young man in an orange shawl stands behind. On the left, a woman in an orange and yellow sari sits with her back partly turned, while on the right an older man in white shirt and dhoti stands with palms pressed together in namaste. A brass oil lamp sits on the floor in the lower right corner.2008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28July 28 20082008-07-28A photo of a seated man in saffron-orange robes with a white and red flower garland, his hands placed on the head of a man in a white-and-blue striped shirt and dark trousers who bends forward with hands pressed together. A woman in an orange-red sari and another man in orange robes stand nearby, and a man in white with a yellow shawl and a man in white with a rudraksha mala stand behind. Fruit sits at the lower left and the room has pale walls and grey carpet.2010-01-22A 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 20082008-07-28A photograph inside a small room with white walls. A man with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron turban, orange robe and a long garland of white flowers with red and green accents plus a rudraksha mala, extends his right hand in blessing toward the bald head of an elderly man in white clothes whose hands are pressed together. Two other men in orange robes stand behind him, one holding a silver plate of flowers. On the right, a table draped in white holds a framed deity picture garlanded with flowers, a lit oil lamp and scattered petals. A woman with a flower-decorated braid and a child in the foreground look on, and an elderly woman with white hair is seen at lower left. The man in the turban is a probable Swamiji wearing saffron turban and rudraksha mala, performing a blessing for a devotee.2008-07-28