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A photograph of a large hall with white walls, ceiling fans, and colourful painted pillars at the top. Seated on the floor in rows on green leaf mats and orange mats are many people. Front left, shaved-headed men in white dhoti-style clothes with red-bordered cloth sit facing away and wear sacred threads. Several women in yellow shawls with hands pressed in anjali sit in the middle rows, and men in white robes sit at the right front. A wooden low table and steel vessels stand near the right wall. Participants appear to be in a group satsang or meditation session. No one clearly appears to be a person, and the seated figures are shown without identifying role beyond attendees.

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