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May 12 2015

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A photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram centres, labelled with place names such as Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Redmond WA, Oman Aadheenam, Dublin Ohio, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Seattle Aadheenam, Oklahoma Somanatham, San Jose Madurai and St. Louis Aadhinam. Participants in white and saffron clothes sit on mats, meditate or perform yoga postures in temple-style rooms with deity murtis, oil lamps, purple drapes and floral decorations. One feed shows a woman with white forehead markings and a red bindi close to the camera, while a man in a headset speaks in a Redmond WA box. No one in the physical room is shown except the viewers of the screen.2015-11-10Photo 11694602 +1 copiesNovember 10 20152015-11-10A photograph of a screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple KAILASA aadheenam locations, each tile labelled with a centre name such as Seattle Aadheenam, San Jose Aadheenam, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, New Jersey Omkareshwar, NY Aadheenam Queens, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam and Dublin, Ohio. Tiles show a woman in yellow seated on cushions near a rug, two women in red and pink seated on black mats, people in a living room, a group in red seated before a deity altar in New York, a woman in red seated on a red cushion in Los Angeles, a woman seated on a rug in Toronto, a woman in a bed-like setting in Dublin, and a decorated shrine with a figure in white in Oman. The screen shows the tiles, not physical people in this room, so no one in the scene is counted; the visible people are on the screen.2015-10-18A multi-panel video call collage of satsang participants from several KAILASA aadheenam centres. Panels show a woman smiling in Alice Springs, Australia; a seated man in a meditation pose at Toronto Kailasham in a large hall; a group seated on red cushions in the Los Angeles Aadheenam; and a group seated on a green carpet before a shrine with red drapes at the Oklahoma Aadheenam. The Vancouver Aadheenam panel shows a woman in orange robes before a framed image of a figure in orange, and a Seattle Aadheenam panel shows a seated woman in a blue top before a framed portrait. Other panels show seated devotees in white clothing at the Ohio Aadheenam and Guadeloupe Rameshwaram, the latter with a row of people in white and several people on chairs. a person Vedic Temple Chidambaram portrait appears in one panel. Participants are shown on screen, so they are not counted as physical people in this scene.2015-04-18Photo 11742895February 10 20152015-02-10May 12 20152015-05-12Photo 11694442 +1 copiesA screen-grid photograph of a video-conference satsang split into many tiles, each showing a different group of people seated on mats, cushions or chairs in rooms with red, orange and white furnishings. Tile labels read San Jose Madurai, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Ohio Prayag, Oklahoma Somnatham, Ohio Center, Adyar Chennai, Seattle Chidambaram, Sharjah, Los Angeles Arunachala, Alwarpet Chennai and Nithyanandanagara Hyderabad. Several tiles show a seated man in white ritual clothing with a shaved head, and a few show people in saffron or orange garments, but no identification is made from appearance. A portrait of a figure in orange and a framed image appear in some rooms, and a brass plate with flowers sits in one tile. Overlaid screen text includes Sanskrit mantra lines and a copyright notice.2013-03-05January 16 20162016-01-16Photograph of a wall-mounted screen showing a nine-panel video call grid of satsang participants from different centres. Labelled panels include Ohio, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Cluj Romania, Slovakia Koshitze, St. Louis Aadheenam, and Seattle. Panels show a woman with a bindi, women in orange and red clothes, a seated figure in orange and a man in white, and two women in red and white reading. A man in red and gold with a rudraksha mala appears in the Seattle panel, and a figure in orange and gold sits in the St. Louis panel.2016-01-14