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A photograph of seated devotees meditating on a pale marble floor at the Nithyananda Spurana Program. In the foreground a boy in a white kurta with a dark rudraksha mala and a white badge around his neck sits cross-legged with eyes closed and hands in a mudra. Behind him a woman in white with a white shawl and gold bangles sits with palms open, and at the upper right another person in a patterned orange and red outfit sits nearby. A blue striped towel and a black bag lie at the left edge. No swami figure is visible, so the setting is an ordinary seated meditation session.

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