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December 23 2009

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June 09 20092009-06-09December 23 20092009-12-23A standing man in a cream embroidered long kurta with a red shawl and a cream turban holds a lit brass oil lamp with his right hand and a silver handbell in his left, performing aarti in a hall with framed photographs on the walls. Behind him a metal railing is decorated with pink and red flower garlands. A seated devotee in an orange robe with a red tilak and hands folded in namaskar sits in front, beside a young girl in yellow and a crowd of seated people in white and yellow clothes. A graphic wall panel reading Growing Consciousness shows mountain and sadhu imagery.2009-06-09A photograph of an indoor pooja and arathi in a hall with a corrugated roof and white walls. Three men in white kurtas with yellow shawls stand behind a long white counter holding lit arathi lamps, one of them a tall multi-tiered brass lamp with flames. A seated man in white at front right raises a lamp, and two women in saris sit at the left edge. Many brass oil lamps and pooja vessels are arranged on the floor and counter. Framed printed panels with photographs hang on the back wall. No candidate for the a person is visible in the people shown.2010-07-13June 09 20092009-06-09Evening aarti in a plain hall with a corrugated metal roof and white walls. Three young men stand at a red-draped table holding tiered brass lamps lit with many flames. The man on the left wears white with an orange shawl; the middle figure wears an orange robe; the man on the right wears white with an orange shawl and holds a flaming lamp. Brass bells and oil lamps sit on the table. Seated devotees in orange and yellow clothing watch, and a seated monk in maroon robes sits at the right. Behind them, a banner titled Growing Consciousness shows mountain imagery and photographs, beside a painted pillar with a bird motif.2008-09-30June 09 20092009-06-09Three men perform aarti with oil lamps in a hall with a corrugated metal roof and ceiling fans. The man on the left wears white with an orange shawl and holds a lamp raised overhead with one hand while holding a bell. The central man wears an orange robe, a yellow-and-white flower garland and an orange shawl, holding a lit lamp and a bell. The man on the right wears white with an orange shawl and raises a lamp and bell. Seated devotees in front, several with hands joined in namaskar, watch from long tables. Behind them are framed photographs and a banner reading 'Growing Consciousness'. A colorful kalasha-style pillar stands at right.2008-10-01September 10 20122012-09-10A photograph inside a covered hall with a corrugated metal roof, where a long-haired man in saffron-orange robes stands at a metal railing handing out papers to a queue of devotees. Beside him another saffron-robed person holds a stack of papers in an orange cloth. Devotees line up behind a chain barrier: a woman in a red-and-black sari with gold jewellery, a woman in a white salwar kameez with hands joined in namaste, a young boy in white, a boy in a white shirt reaching toward the railing, and a man in a white shirt with a yellow shawl. Wall panels behind them show photographs of meditating sadhus and a mountain landscape, with a banner reading Growing Consciousness, and colourful painted pillars stand in the background.2009-12-05September 10 20122012-09-10September 10 20122012-09-10