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Outdoor photo on a dirt path beside a white building with a red-trimmed door and a sign reading Nandeeshwar. A smiling man with long dark hair wears an orange-red headband with a tilak mark on his forehead, an orange garment and a white and red-orange flower garland. Another person in a white shirt bends forward with a hand on his shoulder, wearing an orange headband. A young boy in red stands in the background, palm trees and shrubs surround the scene.

Outdoor photo at an ashram in daylight. A smiling man with long dark hair and an orange headband, wearing an orange garment and a thick white and red flower garland, stands while a man in a white shirt and orange headband bows and places his hands on the garland-wearer's shoulders. Behind them, a man in orange with an orange shawl stands on a dirt path, palm trees and green shrubs surround a white colonnaded building with red trim and a sign reading Nandikeshwara, and a green paper lantern hangs from a tree. A metal bowl with flower offerings sits at lower right. Three or four people are visible.

A photograph of a seated man in an orange turban, orange shawl and red and yellow marigold garland placing his right hand on the head of a man in a white shirt, who faces away from the camera. The seated man wears a red tilak mark and a gold ornament on his turban, and his long dark hair falls past his shoulders. Another hand rests on the white-shirted man's shoulder. Red and pink string lights and a floral arrangement frame the scene. Swamiji (probable) is the seated figure in orange turban, orange shawl, rudraksha-style red beaded garland and long swept-back hair, giving a blessing.

Outdoors on stone steps beside a pink temple building, a man with long dark swept-back hair, a white tilak on his forehead, and an orange saffron wrap sits smiling while receiving a blessing. He wears a green and white flower garland, a gold ceremonial necklace, and bare feet. A devotee in a white shirt with orange sleeve trim kneels close and touches his head. Other people in orange and white robes, including a shaved-headed man in orange rudraksha beads, stand and sit around the steps.

Night photograph of a blessing ritual. A man in a white shirt and white headband bows with folded palms and lowered head, receiving a blessing as a person in a rust-orange turban and orange-gold garment, wearing a red and turquoise flower garland and a rudraksha-style mala, extends a hand to his forehead. Behind them, saffron-robed attendants and a white-clad man stand near a golden deity murti on a red-cushioned seat. a person: the blessing figure has a rust-orange turban, a red and turquoise garland, gold-toned ornaments and an orange-gold wrap, consistent with the page's identification, though appearance alone is uncertain.

A photograph of a satsang setting where a bare-chested man in an orange-saffron dhoti and orange shawl, wearing a rudraksha-style bead head band, a pink flower garland and gold earrings, extends his right hand in blessing over the head of a kneeling man in a white shirt. Behind them, a second man in white and a bare-chested man in white stand near a light-coloured curtain and a blue-and-white banner, with a red flower offering visible in another devotee's hands. a person: the orange-clad figure with the pink garland and bead headband is the candidate, presented in a blessing role.

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Outdoor photo of a seated man in an orange robe with long, swept-back black hair and a rudraksha mala, smiling as another man in white kneels before him with palms pressed together and an extended hand touching his head. Several standing men and women in white clothes watch around them; one woman wears a white sari with a gold border, and a pink-clad figure appears at the right edge. A woman in the foreground sits with her hair in a bun, and a small red and white offering sits near the seated man's lap on a dry, sandy ground. Swamiji (probable) is seated in orange saffron robes with long hair and a rudraksha mala, receiving a blessing.

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