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A photograph of a fire walking ritual at an outdoor ashram setting with red-earth ground. A long rectangular pit is filled with glowing grey-black embers and ash. A man in white dhoti and shirt is mid-stride walking across the pit, bare-footed, with his arms raised. Beside him a man in white with a rudraksha mala stands on the left, and a drummer in an orange cloth beats a drum. Devotees in white clothes line the wooden-pole barrier on the right, some with hands folded, and a child stands in the background. A steel vessel sits on the ground by the barrier. A red-roofed building is visible behind.

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