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February 02 2014

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A photograph of a large screen showing a live video feed. In the centre, a man in an all-white shirt and trousers stands with his hands pressed together near his face, his mouth open as if speaking or chanting. Behind him, a crowd of onlookers stands and sits in a dim hall. At the lower left, a woman in a dark blue sari with gold border stands at the edge of the frame. Seated at right, a woman in a maroon sari with gold trim sits with folded hands among devotees. In the foreground, a pile of garlands and flower offerings in red, white and orange lies on the floor. A small inset in the lower right corner shows a man in an orange garment and a green-backed portrait.

A photograph of a large screen showing a live satsang feed. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt and blue jeans stands holding a mobile phone to his ear, while a woman in a red-and-orange sari with a gold border stands at left. Behind them a seated audience in mostly red and dark clothing fills a hall. In the lower centre, a floral arrangement of white and red flowers sits beside a tray of apples and fruit. At lower right, a small inset of a figure in saffron robes and rudraksha beads is visible, with an on-screen copyright caption.

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A photograph of a devotional padapuja-style ritual in a small room with pink walls. An older man with grey hair and a white beard, wearing white dhoti and shirt with a rudraksha mala, bends forward while a woman in a red and gold sari kneels and offers a red fruit or apple at his feet, with another woman in a gold-bordered sari holding a red fruit beside them. Onlookers in white shirts and a woman in a grey-green sari watch closely. At the right edge a person in saffron/orange robes holds a trident and wears a rudraksha mala. Garlands of pink and yellow flowers hang nearby. Several other devotees crowd in the background.

2014-06-21 +1 copies

A photograph of a padapuja in a room with white walls and marigold and rose garlands hung along the wall. A seated figure in an orange cushioned chair wears a maroon-and-orange robe, bare upper torso, gold armband, and a red and white flower garland, holding a silver trident-topped staff. A man in a white kurta with a red shawl and a woman in white kneel at his feet, washing or offering flowers from a plate of petals. Standing behind them are a woman in a pale yellow and pink sari with folded hands, a man in a white shirt, a monk in white dhoti, and a shaved-headed man in orange. Bananas and fruit sit in the foreground. Seated at the left are a bespectacled elderly man and a woman in a pink top. a person appears as the seated figure receiving the padapuja, identified by his long swept-back hair, ornate gold armband and orange cushioned seat, in a ceremonial role. Ten people are visible.

A photograph of an indoor hall with red carpet and pink walls where people perform a ritual honouring a seated figure. A woman in a red-orange sari with a garland stands at left holding a fruit plate, while a man in a white dhoti bends forward to touch the feet of a seated person draped in white cloth on a white-covered seat. Other men in white dhotis, a woman in a green sari, and a man in a checked shirt stand nearby. A cameraman films. Fruit plates, flowers and a vase sit on the floor, and rows of seated devotees in white clothes fill the right side under hanging black and red decorative banners.

June 24 2014

2014-06-24 +1 copies

October 30 2016

A seated man in a rust-red dhoti and rudraksha mala, with a gold-bordered orange shawl, extends his hands to offer a red fruit to a woman in a red sari with a red-and-white flower garland. Other devotees kneel and stand around a flower-decorated tray, and a white-clad man with a rudraksha necklace and a dark-haired woman in red and gold look on. Children with folded hands and elderly women with raised palms watch, some clapping, in a home setting during a house visit.

2014-06-24 +2 copies

Indoor ritual in a small yellow-walled room. A seated figure in long dark-red robes with an orange shawl and a red-and-yellow marigold garland receives attention from a man in white shirt and white dhoti seated on a red plastic chair, who is handling flowers. A woman in a white sari with gold border kneels on a patterned mat near a steel plate of pink petals. Behind them a bald man in orange-brown robes with rudraksha beads stands beside a young attendant in white holding a brass trident-like staff. Several women in saris stand at the left with hands folded. Ornate maroon curtain on the right.

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