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December 01 2016

December 01 2016

A seated photo of a large white-clad audience. In the foreground a young woman in an orange saree with gold border, rudraksha malas and bangles, a white band across her forehead and glasses, smiles while holding a young man's hand over a ring-like object. He wears a maroon striped kurta with a rudraksha mala. Behind them, men in white shirts and kurtas with rudraksha malas sit attentively. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible in this frame.

A photograph of a large seated gathering of devotees at a satsang-style event, many smiling and laughing. In the foreground a man in glasses and a pink-orange kurta claps his hands while smiling. Beside him a young boy in orange and white sits wearing rudraksha malas and a kumkum-marked forehead. Other devotees wear white dhotis and shawls, orange and yellow cloths, rudraksha malas and white tilak on their foreheads. A man at left in white with a red bindi wears a rudraksha mala and sits near a bald figure in the lower left corner. The background is a crowded hall with people packed closely together. No specific individual is identified as a person in this image.

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A photograph of a large seated gathering of devotees at an ashram event, with many people smiling, laughing and clapping. In the foreground, a man with glasses and swept-back hair wears a white and gold-bordered dhoti-style garment with a shawl and rudraksha mala. Beside him, a smiling man in a pink-orange kurta with glasses claps his hands. A young boy in orange clothing wears a rudraksha mala, and a man in an orange turban and white-and-gold garment sits at right. Several men in white robes with tilak marks and rudraksha malas fill the rows behind them.

A photograph of a large seated assembly at a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam event. In the foreground, four young people wear saffron/orange draped garments, rudraksha malas and beaded bracelets, with long dreadlocked hair wound up on top of their heads and white tilak marks on their foreheads. Several are smiling and one gestures with a raised hand while speaking. Behind them, a dense crowd sits closely packed, many in white ritual clothes with white tilaks, and some in orange. Ornate gold-toned decoration is visible in the background. The image shows ashram participants during a gathering rather than a single identifiable ritual.

April 26 2016

November 27 2017

A photograph of a seated crowd on a red floor covering at an indoor gathering. In the foreground, a smiling man with long dark hair wears white ash-like markings on his forehead and arms, a thick rudraksha mala with multiple strands, and an orange and white robe with an orange sash, marking him as a sannyasi-style devotee. Beside him, a man in white with a rudraksha mala and a red-brown shawl sits attentively, and at right a bearded man in a black top with a red patterned shawl and a silver pendant listens. Behind them, many men and women in white, orange and striped shirts sit closely together, some wearing glasses.

January 15 2017

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August 13 2016

A photograph of a seated sannyasi in a maroon turban and maroon shawl with a long beaded necklace, smiling as he holds hands with a second sannyasi in orange robes and an orange head wrap. An older man in a striped button-down shirt and glasses leans in from behind, and two young girls in colourful bandhani-style saris stand beside them. Other saffron-robed devotees sit on red mats in the background, with water bottles and marigold flowers in the foreground. The scene appears to be an evening gathering on a stone platform under a temporary canopy.