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A photograph of an open-air ashram courtyard under a corrugated metal roof with an orange brick wall. In the foreground a man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange saffron robe and a long rudraksha mala, stands with palms pressed together, looking upward toward the right; this appearance matches the Swamiji (probable) profile with long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha mala. Behind him, a row of women and girls in white and orange saris and a young boy in a yellow shirt stand with hands folded in namaste along a red carpet. A red-and-gold throne-like seat sits at the left edge, a camera on a tripod is at right, and a red sign on the wall reads about more than 20,000 people in 247 countries. Several people are visible.