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A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-conference feeds from multiple ashram centres, each labelled with a city name. Top row: Oklahoma Somnatham, where a seated group of about a dozen people in white and colourful clothes sits before a red and gold shrine with deity murtis; and Toronto Thirukailaya Adheenam, where a man in an orange robe sits at the front of a group on mats. Middle row includes Washington DC Sripuram, with a priest in white before a decorated shrine; Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, a living room with a few seated people; and St. Louis Tirumala Adheenam, a close view of a woman in an orange shawl with two others. Right side shows Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam, a large group seated on red mats. Bottom row includes Hyderabad Guptakashi, a woman in a teal top and pink shawl with a rudraksha mala, and Singapore Singapuram, a group seated on a red cloth before deity figures.

May 08 2013

A multi-panel video call collage of satsang participants from several KAILASA aadheenam centres. Panels show a woman smiling in Alice Springs, Australia; a seated man in a meditation pose at Toronto Kailasham in a large hall; a group seated on red cushions in the Los Angeles Aadheenam; and a group seated on a green carpet before a shrine with red drapes at the Oklahoma Aadheenam. The Vancouver Aadheenam panel shows a woman in orange robes before a framed image of a figure in orange, and a Seattle Aadheenam panel shows a seated woman in a blue top before a framed portrait. Other panels show seated devotees in white clothing at the Ohio Aadheenam and Guadeloupe Rameshwaram, the latter with a row of people in white and several people on chairs. a person Vedic Temple Chidambaram portrait appears in one panel. Participants are shown on screen, so they are not counted as physical people in this scene.

February 10 2015

A large screen displays a video-conference grid of many live feeds from different centres, each labelled with a place name such as Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Ohio Prayag, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Singapore Sivaganga and Los Angeles Ayuda Nagaram. Inside the panels, people sit on mats around decorated puja tables with offerings, flowers and oil lamps, some in saffron and red clothing, while others stand or sit in a satsang-style gathering. A small framed portrait on one panel shows a smiling saffron-robed figure, identified only by its caption.

A photograph of a large display screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile is labelled with a city name in white text, including Phoenix Kanchipuram, Singapore Singapore, Los Angeles Arunachalam, New York Varanasi, Oklahoma Somnatham, Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjaini and San Jose Madurai. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and carpets in meditation or satsang postures, several wearing white kurtas and some in dark clothing, with shrine backdrops of deity murti and red drapes visible in several tiles. On the right edge of the screen a partial tile shows a seated figure in red and orange robes.

A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-site video satsang with nine live feeds in tiled panels. Top row: a woman with a bindi in Alice Springs, Australia, and a man sitting on a red mat in a hall labelled Toronto Kailashram. Main grid: a Los Angeles Aadheenam room with people seated on red mats and a robed figure at the front; an Oklahoma Aadheenam with women in white and purple seated on a green carpet before a red-draped shrine; a Vancouver Aadheenam panel with a woman in red near a deity altar; an Ohio Aadheenam with a shrine of deities and seated figures in red; a Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram feed with a group in white clothing and blue chairs; and a Seattle Aadheenam feed with a figure in white seated near a portrait and a woman in blue on a rug. No one in the scene is identified as a person by appearance.

April 07 2013

A large wall screen shows a video-conference grid of about fifteen tiles, each a remote satsang location labelled with city names such as Kuala Lumpur Palani Adheenam, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam, St. Louis Tirumala Adheenam, Toronto Thirumalai Adheenam, San Jose Madurai, Melbourne Tiruvarur, Oman Sivagangai and Redmond USA. Tiles show people seated on rugs, on a peetha and in ashram rooms, some in saffron and maroon robes, one in a white shirt wearing a headset, and a central figure in a red-and-white outfit seated before a green backdrop. Shrines with deity murtis appear in several tiles. Attendees are seen only through the screen.

A screen-grid photograph of a multi-site online satsang session, with tiles showing separate groups of devotees in different locations. Labels read Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham, Charlotte-Srisailam, Kastav Croatia and Croatia. Tiles show people seated on mats or chairs in meditation or group sitting, some in white and orange clothing, with a shrine decorated with flowers and a red-draped altar in the Seattle tile. A tile on the left shows a man in a dark jacket beside a woman, and a Croatia tile shows a woman in white with an orange shawl. The screen is the central subject, with people shown only through the video tiles.

A multi-panel video conference collage of satsang participants joined from different centres. Panels show people seated on rugs or chairs in rooms with sofas, a deity murti on an altar, a row of seated devotees, and a woman in a red shawl. Handwritten signs read St. Louis, Tirumala, Singapuram, Paris Kalighat, Philadelphia, St Julien France, and Charlotte Srisailam. In the bottom-right panel, a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes, a rudraksha mala and flower garlands gestures while speaking to the camera, a figure matching the Swamiji (probable) description. Because this is a screen collage, the people shown are on screens rather than physically present.

October 09 2013