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February 15 20152015-02-15February 14 20152015-02-14Photo 11742898February 14 20152015-02-14A photograph of a large video wall displaying a multi-site video conference grid of many small live feeds from different ashram centres and devotee homes. Panels show people seated on sofas, chairs and floors, some in white or red clothing, a woman in a red top on a sofa, a group in white and orange garments seated in a room, and a man in white with a garland. Labels on panels read San Diego Carlsbad, Dallas Dwaraka, Surrey Canada, Dakota Dunes, Houston Kalahasti Aadheenam, Atlanta Udayagiri and Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam.2015-02-14February 15 20152015-02-15A photograph of a large wall-mounted video display showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple centres. Tiles include Auckland New Zealand, Atlanta Ujjaini, Grasse France, Moliere France, Lochana North San Antonio, Toronto Thirukailaya Adheenam, Dallas Dwaraka, NY Varanasi Manhattan, Yonkers NewYork, Dakota Dunes, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam and Seattle Chidamba. Participants sit in meditation, yoga and satsang postures, some on cushions and mats, others on chairs, with a ritual scene on one tile and a screen-within-screen view of a seated figure in orange clothing with a crown and beads at the lower right. The display frame is dark and the room around it is dim.2015-02-16A grid of nine video-conference panels screenshotted from a large screen, each showing a separate ashram or centre group during a shared puja. Labelled panels include Phoenix Kanchipuram, Malaysia Ipoh, Seattle Chidambaram, Toronto Kailasa, San Jose Madurai, Los Angeles Avadham, and Dakota Dunes. Groups sit on mats in front of decorated deity murtis, shrines with garlands, kumkum and flower offerings, and brass puja plates. A man in a light blue shirt presses his palms together before a framed portrait on a stand in the lower right panel, and a red throne with a portrait and flowers appears in the same panel. Participants wear white, orange, and saffron clothing. The grid is a graphic composed of screen captures, so no physical people are counted from it as a scene.2012-10-24October 08 20122012-10-08February 14 20152015-02-14May 08 20132013-05-08A 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.2013-05-03