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September 17 2010

A large indoor hall full of seated devotees in white ritual clothing performing a prayer or homa session with palms pressed together in namaskar. Many wear white kurta-style garments and some have rudraksha malas and lanyards. A blond Western man in the lower right wears white and has a mala, while a young man in a striped polo sits in front with hands folded. Floor cushions, small brass or plate offerings and blue mats are in front of them. Ceiling fans, a wall clock, a mirror, potted plants and a doorway with a camera on a tripod are visible in the background. Roughly 100 people are visible.

A large hall filled with a seated crowd of devotees performing a group pada puja. Foreground women sit on orange and red mats with brass plates and offering bowls before them, hands held in anjali. Many wear white saris or white kurtas with orange, saffron or yellow shawls and stoles. Kalasha-style decorations and orange and blue banners hang from the ceiling, and a camera on a tripod is visible at right. No single person is clearly identifiable as a person in the frame.

A photograph of a seated group of women performing a puja session in an ashram hall with orange walls and a low orange counter holding brass vessels. Most women wear white saris with yellow shawls, and several wear orange shawls. Each sits on a woven mat before a small brass plate with lamps, a brass bowl and flowers on an orange cloth, hands pressed together in prayer. In the foreground a woman in an orange top with a white forehead mark sits facing the group. Behind them rows of additional devotees in white sit in the hall, with a railing on the right side.

A photograph of a large indoor puja gathering seated on the floor of a tiled hall. In the foreground, several men in white dhotis with maroon and gold borders sit with palms pressed together in namaskar, some with bare upper bodies and tripundra marks on their foreheads, one wearing a rudraksha mala. On the left, two men in saffron-orange robes sit with hands folded. Before them are brass plates with fruit, flowers, small oil lamps and cups on orange cloth mats. Behind the front row, many seated devotees, including children and women in colourful clothing, face the same direction. Red curtains hang at the back of the room.

A large hall filled with seated devotees performing a ritual in prayer posture, palms pressed together. In the foreground, women sit on orange and red mats in front of brass plates and small brass lamps and vessels. Many wear white or cream dhotis and saris with yellow, orange or red shawls, and some wear rudraksha-style necklaces. Behind them rows of people in white stretch back toward the far wall, and hanging orange, blue and white woven banners decorate the ceiling. A small brass lamp and offering trays sit on the floor before the group. No individual figure is identifiable as a person from appearance cues in this view.

A seated group of devotees with palms pressed together in namaskar during a prayer or puja in an indoor hall with white walls. Several men wear orange robes and rudraksha malas, and several wear white dhotis with bare upper bodies and sandalwood or vibhuti markings on their foreheads and arms. Women in white and one in a red-and-gold saree sit on blue and orange mats. Orange cloth-draped seats and a golden kalasha-like vessel stand at the back, with a black speaker at right. Brass lamps and offering bowls sit on the mats in front.

February 25 2011

A large hall with a polished white floor and pink walls hung with colourful woven banners fringed in yellow and orange. Rows of women sit cross-legged on the floor, many in white saris or white clothing with orange shawls or stoles, some in yellow shawls, with brass puja plates, oil lamps, flower petals and small bowls set on orange mats before them. Several women hold their hands together in prayer or meditation posture. Behind them, more seated devotees fill the room, and at the far end a golden ritual object is visible near an orange-draped seat. The scene reads as a group satsang or puja session.

December 22 2010

A seated group of devotees performs a prayer ritual on a tiled hall floor, hands pressed together in anjali. Front left, a man in saffron robes with a rudraksha mala, eyes closed, sits on a mat before a brass plate. Beside him, another saffron-clad man with a mala also sits in prayer. To their right, shaved-headed men in white dhotis with red-and-gold borders sit with hands folded. Brass lamps, small brass vessels, flowers and fruit plates are arranged on mats in front of them, and behind the front rows many more participants in white and yellow clothing kneel in rows. Ritual items and a yoga-session atmosphere fill the room.

October 10 2010