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Seated group meditation indoors during satsang, with devotees in white ritual clothing and sacred marks. In the foreground a young man in white shirt and dhoti with a red bindi and rudraksha-style mala sits with eyes closed. Beside him an older man in white with a mustache, glasses and a mala also meditates. Behind them, men and women sit cross-legged or kneeling, many wearing white or patterned saris and kurtas, several with white vibhuti stripes on their foreheads and beaded malas. A brass vessel sits on the floor at left, and mats cover the floor. No visible a person figure is present in the frame.

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A large seated gathering of devotees in white kurtas and dhotis, eyes closed in meditation, filling a hall. In the foreground a man with a white forehead band and a rudraksha mala sits with head bowed; a bespectacled man in white with a rudraksha mala sits centrally, and several men on the right wear gold chains and small tilak marks. Many others fill the background, with a few children visible. No speaker or throne is clearly visible; the scene shows a satsang or meditation session with people sitting in silent stillness.

December 04 2010

A seated group of men in white dhotis and saffron-coloured shawls sit in rows, eyes closed, performing devotional hand gestures and holding small objects near their faces. Several wear rudraksha malas and gold bangles; one man in the foreground wears glasses and a rudraksha mala over a saffron shawl. Behind them, a blurred hall shows a golden ornate altar and a red-draped seat. a person is not clearly identifiable among the visible people.

October 08 2010

Seated devotees fill the foreground of an evening satsang, most with hands in anjali mudra or pressed together in prayer. A bald man in plain white with a gold-bordered dhoti and sacred thread sits at centre, while a young man in white wears sandalwood tilak and glasses at right. Several boys in striped shirts and white clothes sit in front, a few with eyes closed. Behind them are orange-wood seating and a white-clad man with folded hands. No swami figure is clearly visible in this frame.

July 19 2009

A photograph of several men seated closely together with hands pressed in anjali mudra and eyes closed, in a devotional gathering. The man at left wears a white shirt, black rudraksha mala, gold wristwatch and a pendant with a small deity image, and has white ash and a red bindi on his forehead. The man at centre wears a pale blue-green shirt with a black mala, a wristwatch and a name badge, with white ash and red bindi. Behind them an older man with white moustache and forehead markings, and at right a long-haired man in a white t-shirt wearing orange and blue beaded malas, eyes closed. Other men with forehead markings sit in the background against a plain cream wall.

December 12 2013

A seated audience of devotees in white clothing with orange lanyards sits on the floor in a hall at an Inner Awakening program. Several women and men are visible in the foreground and middle rows, some clapping or with hands raised together. A man at right wears a yellow-orange shawl and has a tilak mark on his forehead, and the foreground shows partial heads and shoulders.

A seated congregation at an indoor satsang or discourse, with many devotees filling the hall. In the foreground a young man in white dhoti with an orange-red shawl and rudraksha mala claps his hands, beside a man in white dhoti and shawl with a rudraksha mala and a white forehead mark. Another man in white clothes with a grey-streaked head and white tilak sits with hands folded. Behind them, devotees wear orange and saffron robes, rudraksha malas and white forehead markings, and a young boy in a patterned golden robe sits at left. a person is not clearly identifiable here, so no ceremonial figure is named. Watermarked archive photograph of devotees in prayerful attention.