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October 17 2012

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A photograph of a large monitor showing a multi-panel video conference grid of several locations. Top right, a man in a grey shirt sits in a wicker chair with an orange and yellow garland, with a small altar and yellow cloth behind him. Middle right, an elderly woman in a blue sari and an elderly man in white sit on a sofa and floor mat before a seated deity murti draped in red and gold garlands. Left panels show families seated on mats with puja plates and oil lamps, and a bottom panel shows a deity murti with a red halo and a shaved-headed figure with tripundra markings. Labels in the grid mark locations. The screen shows people in separate rooms, not one physical gathering.2012-10-17October 17 20122012-10-17October 24 20122012-10-24October 20 20122012-10-20October 15 20122012-10-15August 22 20122012-08-22 +2 copiesMarch 29 20132013-03-29A photograph of a large video-wall screen showing a grid of live video-conference feeds for a satsang, with a cinema-like frame and a grey wall around it. Each tile is labelled with a city-and-temple name, including Houston Kalashasthi, Charlotte Srisailam, Los Angeles Arunachala, Ohio Prayag, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Oklahoma Somanatham, Toronto Kailasam, Kuala Lumpur Palani and Seattle Chidambaram. Participants sit on mats and cushions in ashram-style rooms; some wear saffron and orange robes, others white, and several have shaved or covered heads. One Toronto tile shows a man in dark robes and a head covering seated by a small offering. Altars with deity murtis, orange drapes and a large framed portrait appear in several tiles. The screen shows people only on screens, so no physical participants are in the photographed room; the feeds show seated devotees in groups.2013-11-15A photograph of a large video wall showing a live multi-site satsang feed. Tiles show different locations: at the top left a temple with a decorated deity shrine and people in orange and white seated for pada-pooja; top right a group of people seated before a framed picture and yellow flowers; a centre room with a large seated congregation in orange and white clothing; a woman in a white top sitting on a mat before a person photo, with a small sign; and at the bottom right a man with a shaved head, white tilak and rudraksha beads, wearing orange and seated on a red cushioned throne before a red and gold backdrop, with a small mic on his collar. Other tiles show devotees in red and blue sitting on mats and a man in blue and a woman in pink at a ritual setup. Signs read Guadeloupe and Singapuram. The screen frame is on the right edge.2012-10-05A photograph of a video wall showing a multi-panel grid of live satsang feeds from different centres, each labelled with a place name such as New York Varanasi, Singapore Singapuram, Paris, Kalighat, Vancouver Puri, Bangalore Marathahalli, New Jersey Omkareshwar, Dakota Dunes and eNRiching Temple Bidadi. Panels show people in ashram and home settings: a seated pair in orange and white clothes in a living room, women in red and orange shawls with palms joined, a group sitting on rugs around offering plates, and a man in white seated on a red mat in a central room. A central panel shows a white-clad man in a room with a deity shrine.2013-04-09A photograph of a large video-conference screen split into a nine-panel grid, each tile a remote participant location. Panels show people seated in home rooms with sign labels including BANGALORE WHITEFIELD, WASHINGTON, D.C SRIPURAM, St. Louis Tirumala, BANGALORE MALLESHWARAM, BROCKLEY LONDON, CHARLOTTE SRIRAMAM and GUADELOUPE. A woman in orange and white sits on a red bed beneath a framed portrait; a group in a St. Louis room sits on floor cushions with a red-draped table; a man in a white shirt and a woman in a white-and-red patterned top sit beside a framed portrait and orange flowers; a row of seated people wears white and orange. In the bottom-right tile, a figure in orange robes with long beaded necklaces sits before an ornate gold-framed chair. The screen shows a pedia.org, which is omitted from text2012-08-25A photograph of a large video wall showing a multi-site satsang session as nine live feeds in a grid. Top-left panel labelled HOUSTON KALAHASHTI shows a boy in a blue top, a woman in a patterned top, a woman in a sari and a man in a red shirt seated on a floor with a deity picture and offerings. Top-middle panel labelled WASHINGTON, D.C. SRIPURAM shows people seated on a rug before a framed picture. Top-right panel labelled REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA shows women in orange and saffron clothing seated on a floor. Middle-left panel labelled CHARLOTTE SRISARAM shows seated participants with a plate of offerings in front of them. Middle panel labelled VANCOUVER PURI shows people in white and orange seated before a decorated altar with garlands. Middle-right panel labelled ANNA NAGAR shows women in saffron and yellow seated on a mat. Bottom panels show framed deity pictures on red-cushioned stands with flowers. No a person candidate is visible in any panel.2012-07-05