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A photograph inside a domestic living room with a green ceiling and wood-panelled walls. A smiling man in an orange saffron turban, orange robe and rudraksha mala stands on a patterned rug, facing an older man in white kurta. Another saffron-robed monk stands at right beside a window. On the left, an older woman in a white embroidered sari presses her palms together in greeting, next to a woman in an orange and pink bandhani sari holding a small child in orange clothes. A man in white kurta stands in the background. The saffron-robed man in the turban is a probable Swamiji by appearance cues: orange turban, saffron robe and rudraksha mala, with the page indicating his presence.

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