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A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-window video conference grid of satsang participants joining from different locations. On the left, a woman in a teal saree sits in a bedroom beside a sign reading HYDERABAD GUPTA KASHI. Below, a sign reading CLUJ, ROMANIA shows a woman in white, and a window labelled Charlotte Srisailam shows a man in a dark jacket with a rudraksha mala seated beside a man in white kneeling in prayer on a red-and-gold carpet. A window labelled CHINA shows a woman in a red bindi with a smaller frame of another woman. On the right, windows labelled Houston Kalahasti Adheenam, Surrey Canada, Hyderabad Adheenam and Minot North Dakota show rooms with altars, a woman in orange holding a book, and a framed portrait of a figure with long hair in orange clothing. The people visible are only those in the screen windows, which are depicted images rather than physical people in the room.

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.

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November 11 2011

A grid of twelve video-conference tiles showing satsang participants in different centres, each labelled with a printed city or centre sign such as "Ohio Mayagi", "Guadeloupe", "Charlotte Srisailam", "Edgewater New Jersey", "St. Louis Tirumala", "Bangalore Marathahalli Center", "Saint Julien France", "Singapuram", "Austin", "Bangalore North" and "New York Varanasi". Participants sit on mats, rugs and sofas in ashram-style rooms, many in white or orange clothing, with a seated woman in red and white robes in the Saint Julien tile. Altars with lit oil lamps, flower garlands, kalasha-like offerings and framed deity pictures appear in several tiles. The bottom-right tile shows a smiling person in orange garments with a white forehead mark and rudraksha-style beads, cropped at the shoulders, against a gold-patterned background.

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A photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel video conference grid of satsang participants in different locations. Top-left panel labelled "DUBAI-THIRUKOVILUR" shows a woman in dark clothing beside a shrine. Top-centre panel labelled "Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram" shows people seated on folding chairs near a table with a floral arrangement. Top-right panel labelled "Vancouver-Puri" shows a woman in a pink top seated on a sofa. Middle-left panel labelled "HYDERABAD SRI" and "Ramanasri" shows two women seated on a pink cushioned sofa. Centre panel labelled "SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM" shows people seated on a yellow patterned mat with ritual items. Middle-right panel labelled "CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM" shows a man in white clothing seated before a decorated shrine and a woman in red beside him. Bottom-centre panel labelled "New York Varanasi" shows a room with ritual mats and a small altar. Bottom-right panel shows a deity image with a seated figure on an ornate throne. Bottom-left panel shows a woman looking down in a room with bookshelves.

A large wall screen shows a video-conference grid of many remote participants from different locations, including tiles labelled Cluj, Romania, Karlsruhe-Germany, Phillip Island-Australia, Amsterdam-Netherlands and Alice Springs, Australia. Participants sit in homes and rooms, some in white clothes, some in orange. In the bottom-right tile, a man in a large red-and-orange turban, orange robe and beaded necklace sits on an ornate gold throne, labelled Self View. Appearance matches the candidate cues of turban, ornate orange clothing and rudraksha-style beads, so he is a probable Swamiji on screen; the Self View label shows the camera feed. The screen is a depiction of a satsang session, and the frame includes dark surrounding wall.

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.