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A photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram centres, labelled with place names such as Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Redmond WA, Oman Aadheenam, Dublin Ohio, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Seattle Aadheenam, Oklahoma Somanatham, San Jose Madurai and St. Louis Aadhinam. Participants in white and saffron clothes sit on mats, meditate or perform yoga postures in temple-style rooms with deity murtis, oil lamps, purple drapes and floral decorations. One feed shows a woman with white forehead markings and a red bindi close to the camera, while a man in a headset speaks in a Redmond WA box. No one in the physical room is shown except the viewers of the screen.

A photograph of a screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple KAILASA aadheenam locations, each tile labelled with a centre name such as Seattle Aadheenam, San Jose Aadheenam, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, New Jersey Omkareshwar, NY Aadheenam Queens, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam and Dublin, Ohio. Tiles show a woman in yellow seated on cushions near a rug, two women in red and pink seated on black mats, people in a living room, a group in red seated before a deity altar in New York, a woman in red seated on a red cushion in Los Angeles, a woman seated on a rug in Toronto, a woman in a bed-like setting in Dublin, and a decorated shrine with a figure in white in Oman. The screen shows the tiles, not physical people in this room, so no one in the scene is counted; the visible people are on the screen.

A screen-capture grid of a video satsang with multiple live-feed panels from different ashram locations. Top left, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam shows a deity murti on a purple-draped altar with a purple cloth backdrop and several people seated on the floor. Top right, Los Angeles Aadheenam shows two people in orange robes seated on the floor beside chairs, with a woman in white. Middle left shows a living room with a sofa and a pink table, empty of people. Center shows a woman with tilak and a bead mala labelled PHOENIX Kanchipuram, beside a person in orange. Middle right, Toronto-Kailash shows people in orange robes seated on mats. Bottom left shows a bald man in white seated on a floor labelled Guadeloupe Aadheenam. Bottom center shows a person in orange with a rudraksha mala labelled Muktha-Seattle, with a Seattle, WA caption above. Bottom right shows a smiling woman in a black hat and red-orange robes labelled Self View. Several panels are live video feeds of participants.

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.

May 12 2015

A video-conference grid of nine live feeds from different Aadheenam centres, each labelled with a banner: Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Singapore Aadheenam, Navalur-Chennai, Toronto Aadheenam, Hyderabad Aadheenam, Mumbai-Parlapoornananda, Pudhuvai Aadheenam, Hyderabad Guptakashi, and a Self View tile. Participants in white clothes sit cross-legged on mats with notebooks, some wearing saffron and red shawls. Along the top row, a Kuala Lumpur hall shows many seated people before a deity altar, and a Singapore shrine has colourful murtis and flower garlands. In the bottom-right, a woman in a black hat with red beads smiles in a self-view tile. The screen is a photograph of a monitor displaying the stream.

February 24 2015

February 10 2015

Photograph of a wall-mounted screen showing a nine-panel video call grid of satsang participants from different centres. Labelled panels include Ohio, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Cluj Romania, Slovakia Koshitze, St. Louis Aadheenam, and Seattle. Panels show a woman with a bindi, women in orange and red clothes, a seated figure in orange and a man in white, and two women in red and white reading. A man in red and gold with a rudraksha mala appears in the Seattle panel, and a figure in orange and gold sits in the St. Louis panel.

Photograph of a large video wall displaying a grid of live-streamed participant feeds from multiple centres, with a smaller screen at right. Tiles show people seated or standing in rooms decorated with deity images, flowers and lamps; one tile shows a seated man in white near a peetha with pink and red fabric and garlands. Name placards read SEATTLE, SAN JOSE, SHARJAH, ADYAR, DELHI, EAST LONDON UK and HYDERABAD. A green-and-white banner reads Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Vedic Temple. Several tiles show groups in saffron, red and white clothing performing a satsang or puja-style gathering.

A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple satsang centres, each panel labelled with its location, such as Ohio-Prayag, Selayang Malaysia, Goon-Malaysia, Toronto-Kailasham, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Seattle Aadheenam, Melbourne Aadheenam, Scarborough Canada and Charlotte Home Temple. Inside the panels, rows of devotees sit on the floor in white, saffron, red and purple clothing, many with hands folded or seated in meditation postures. One panel shows a deity murti with a flower garland at a Seattle altar, and a few people in the Toronto panel wear saffron-toned clothing. The screen image shows people appearing on screens rather than physically present in this room.