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August 15 2013

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A photograph of a large video-wall screen showing a grid of live video-conference feeds for a satsang, with a cinema-like frame and a grey wall around it. Each tile is labelled with a city-and-temple name, including Houston Kalashasthi, Charlotte Srisailam, Los Angeles Arunachala, Ohio Prayag, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Oklahoma Somanatham, Toronto Kailasam, Kuala Lumpur Palani and Seattle Chidambaram. Participants sit on mats and cushions in ashram-style rooms; some wear saffron and orange robes, others white, and several have shaved or covered heads. One Toronto tile shows a man in dark robes and a head covering seated by a small offering. Altars with deity murtis, orange drapes and a large framed portrait appear in several tiles. The screen shows people only on screens, so no physical participants are in the photographed room; the feeds show seated devotees in groups.2013-11-15A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09A grid of video-call tiles shown on a large screen, each labelled with a place name: LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA, TORONTO KAILASAM, OHIO PRAYAG, WASHINGTON DC SRIPURAM, VANCOUVER BHUVANESHWAR, KUALA LUMPUR, EAST LONDON UK, ARANDESWARA, CHARLOTTE Hindu Temple, and HOUSTON KALAHASTI. Participants in each tile sit in ritual or satsang settings: a woman in an orange sari with a puja plate in the Ohio tile, a man in a saffron robe and a bald-headed man in white sitting on a cushion in the Washington tile, a seated group in orange and white clothing in the Toronto tile, and an altar with a deity murti in the Vancouver tile. The screen shows a bright logo at top left and a copyright line at bottom right.2013-11-06A screen-grid video conference of multiple satsang locations, with each tile showing a different group. Top-left, a man in white and a woman in white sit before a gold-draped altar with fruit and a brass tray. Top-centre, a group sits on green carpet beside a red-draped shrine with deity murtis. Centre-left, a label reads Los Angeles and people in white and orange sit on red and striped mats near a puja setup. Centre, a label reads San Jose Madurai and a woman in white sits with palms joined on a mat. Right tiles show Kuala Lumpur-Palani and Seattle Chidambaram, with people seated near altars and framed images. Many participants wear white, orange or yellow clothing.2013-07-30April 13 20132013-04-13November 19 20132013-11-19A photograph of a screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different ashram and centre locations. Feeds include a woman in white with orange cloth speaking at a table with flowers, a central group seated on a floor before a deity shrine with lamps, and several people in orange and white sitting in meditation or puja settings. Labels on the tiles read Guadalupe, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, San Jose Madurai, Charlotte Srisailam, Toronto Kailasam, Los Angeles Arunachala, Ohio Prayag and Chidambaram. A tile at lower right shows a close view of a hand holding a small lit flame and white flower. Several people are visible across the feeds, mostly seated in small groups, with a total of roughly twenty to thirty people visible across all tiles. A man in orange sits cross-legged on a floor mat in one feed, with a seated figure in white nearby.2013-07-02October 29 20132013-10-29 +1 copiesA screen shows a multi-window video-conference grid of temple and ashram locations, each labelled with a printed caption: HYDERABAD, RAMESWARAM, TORONTO KAILASAM, LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA, SAN JOSE MADURAI, OHIO PRAYAG, OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM and CHARLOTTE SRISAILAM. In the Rameswaram window, a row of seated devotees in white, pink and green clothes sits on a mat, one man in blue palms together, with a banana-leaf offering plate before them. In the Toronto window a bald man in a dark robe stands, and seated devotees in saffron and white sit nearby. The Oklahoma window shows a deity altar with decorated murtis and a standing figure in white. Several people are visible across the windows, mostly seated in satsang or puja settings.2013-11-16 +1 copiesOctober 20 20132013-10-20 +1 copiesA photograph of a large screen displaying a grid of video-call panels from multiple KAILASA centres, each labelled with a city name such as New York Varanasi, Los Angeles Arunachala, Toronto Kailasam, Singapore Singapuram, Atlanta Ujjaini, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham and Houston Kalahasthi. Participants in white and saffron clothing, many wearing face masks, sit cross-legged on rugs and cushions during a group meditation session. Some panels show deity altars with red drapes and decorations.2013-04-07A photograph of a large multi-panel video wall displaying a grid of live feeds from different centres. Top-left, a panel shows a seated figure in an orange robe beside white-clad devotees at a ritual table with oil lamps. Other panels show decorated shrines with deity murtis, colourful drapes and garlands, and small groups sitting on mats in white and coloured clothing. Several panels have printed signs reading LOS ANGELES, SINGAPURAM, OHIO PRAYAG, SAN JOSE NABURAJ and RONTO. Bottom-right, a white marble-like murti sits on a throne. Several people are seen on screens, not physically present in the room.2012-04-16