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September 10 2012

A man with long dark hair swept back and small hoop earrings holds a small brass oil lamp with a lit flame toward the camera with his right hand. He wears a white dhoti-style wrap with a gold border, a gold bangle and ring, and a red bindi on his forehead. Behind him, blurred seated people in white and orange clothing sit in a hall with red draping. Appearance cues include long swept-back hair, ceremonial gold jewellery and a gold-bordered wrap, consistent with Swamiji (probable) performing an aarti with an oil lamp during a satsang setting.

A photograph of a shaved-headed man in white ritual dhoti and shawl, bare-chested on one side, wearing a long necklace of large gold beads and a dark pendant, with a red tilak on his forehead. He holds a small silver lamp with a flame in his right hand. Beside him sits an older man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala, and at the left edge a woman with long hair is partly visible. Blurred orange and white surroundings suggest a puja or satsang setting.

January 28 2013

A seated man in a white dhoti with gold border holds a small brass plate with a red-tied bundle of offerings in both hands. He wears a long rudraksha mala with a round pendant, a gold bangle, and a red bindi. Behind him, young boys in maroon and gold-bordered garments sit in a ritual gathering. On the lower left, an oil lamp and a small metal deity murti sit on a brass tray.

September 15 2011

A seated man in a white dhoti with gold border and a bare upper torso holds a lit oil lamp flame toward the camera, with a rudraksha mala around his neck and a pendant necklace. Behind him, a large group of seated men in white shirts and white dhotis, many wearing event lanyards, hold small lamps and open prayer sheets. Some people in the background wear orange and white clothing, and a few women are visible near the top right.

A shaved-headed man in a white shawl and white dhoti sits in a ritual setting, wearing a heavy gold ball-bead necklace over bare shoulders and a red tilak on his forehead. He holds a silver aarti lamp with a lit flame in his right hand. Behind him, a Western woman with long blonde hair in a pale top sits, and to the right an older man in white clothes holds his hands together near a rudraksha mala. Warm blurred background with an orange floor runner.

A seated man with a yellow-orange tilak on his forehead and a short moustache holds a small brass plate with a lit flame or offering, bare-shouldered in a white dhoti-style cloth with gold trim and wearing a red-orange shawl with a rudraksha mala. Behind him, seated devotees in red-orange shawls and white clothes fill a hall, and a younger man in a teal kurta and lanyard badge sits nearby. Watermarked archive photo of a satsang-style gathering. No identity cues sufficient for the a person candidate; the man is described by role as a seated ritual participant.

A row of people in white ritual clothing hold lit oil lamps (diyas) aloft during a puja. In the foreground, a man with short grey hair, a white kurta and a red-and-white beaded cord around his neck extends a brass lamp toward the right. Beside and behind him, others in white garments with red and orange shawls or cords hold lamps or have open hands raised in offering. The background is a dim wood-panelled hall. The scene reads as an oil-lamp ritual, possibly aarti.

Several men in white dhotis with gold borders sit bare-chested, wearing rudraksha malas and wristbands. The men in front and centre hold lit oil lamps or small flames aloft in their hands during a ritual. The man on the left has a red tilak and sacred ash on his forehead, and another man at right has white ash marks. A blurred figure with a tilak is at the far left edge. Behind them hang orange and red cloths. The scene suggests an aarti-style lamp offering.

A bare-chested man with a white tilak on his forehead and arms holds a lit oil lamp or ritual flame in his right hand, with smoke rising from it. He wears rudraksha and multicoloured beaded malas around his neck, gold bangles and earrings. Behind him are blurred dark stone shrines and small lamps, and to the left a person in white cloth is partly visible. The setting suggests a ritual puja or aarti.