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A video-conference wall of nine tiled screens showing a satsang with participants from different centres. Top left, a Nithyananda Vedic Temple Seattle banner shows a man in a saffron turban beside a woman seated near a deity altar. Top centre, a woman with long light hair in a white top and rudraksha mala is labelled MaPooryananda and Alice Springs, Australia. Top right, a deity-filled temple room labelled Ohio Aadheenam and Ohio-Prayag. Middle left, a row of devotees in red and white clothes sits on the floor labelled Los Angeles Aadheenam. Centre, a woman in a red saree with rudraksha malas is labelled Phoenix Aadheenam, PHOENIX Kanchipuram. Middle right, a woman in a green saree is labelled Hyderabad Gupta Kashi. Bottom centre, several people sit on yoga mats labelled San Jose-Madurai. Bottom right, a man in red robes gestures before a gold-ornamented throne, labelled Self View. Bottom left, a white-clad man with rudraksha malas meditates beside a child, with a seated figure in a turban on a screen behind.

A 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.

A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-site video satsang with nine live feeds in tiled panels. Top row: a woman with a bindi in Alice Springs, Australia, and a man sitting on a red mat in a hall labelled Toronto Kailashram. Main grid: a Los Angeles Aadheenam room with people seated on red mats and a robed figure at the front; an Oklahoma Aadheenam with women in white and purple seated on a green carpet before a red-draped shrine; a Vancouver Aadheenam panel with a woman in red near a deity altar; an Ohio Aadheenam with a shrine of deities and seated figures in red; a Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram feed with a group in white clothing and blue chairs; and a Seattle Aadheenam feed with a figure in white seated near a portrait and a woman in blue on a rug. No one in the scene is identified as a person by appearance.

A 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.

A 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.

April 25 2013

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.

A 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 copies

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.