Outdoor photo of a seated group in a palm-fringed garden at an ashram. Around him, several people in white clothes with yellow shawls sit on the ground, some with hands folded. In the left foreground, a black Nandi bull statue draped with marigold garlands sits on a white plinth, with a stone lamp pillar at the top edge. Smoke drifts through the trees. - Nithyanandapedia

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Outdoor photo of a seated group in a palm-fringed garden at an ashram. Around him, several people in white clothes with yellow shawls sit on the ground, some with hands folded. In the left foreground, a black Nandi bull statue draped with marigold garlands sits on a white plinth, with a stone lamp pillar at the top edge. Smoke drifts through the trees.

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