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October 26 2013

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A photograph of a large screen displaying a grid of video-call panels from multiple KAILASA centres, each labelled with a city name such as New York Varanasi, Los Angeles Arunachala, Toronto Kailasam, Singapore Singapuram, Atlanta Ujjaini, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham and Houston Kalahasthi. Participants in white and saffron clothing, many wearing face masks, sit cross-legged on rugs and cushions during a group meditation session. Some panels show deity altars with red drapes and decorations.2013-04-07A photograph of a large screen displaying a grid of live video feeds from multiple satsang locations, each labelled with a place name such as Oklahoma Somnatham, Charlotte-Srisailam, San Jose Madurai, New York Varanasi, Toronto Kailasam, Atlanta Ujjaini, Ohio Prayag, Seattle Chidambaram, Singapore Singapuram and Phoenix Kanchipuram. Small groups of devotees sit on mats and rugs in ashram-style rooms, some with deity murti and decorated shrines in the background, and a few are seated in chairs.2013-04-07April 06 20132013-04-06A large screen shows a multi-panel video-conference collage of satsang participants from several centres, each panel labelled. Top left, Ohio Prayag shows people seated on red mats before a decorated altar with deity images and flowers. Top right, San Jose Madurai shows a woman in red and a man seated on mats with ritual items. Middle left, Guadeloupe Rameshwaram shows a man in white kneeling beside offerings. Middle centre, Seattle Chidambaram shows a man in a white dhoti seated on a red rug with a puja plate. Middle right, Toronto Kailasam shows several people in white, with saffron-clad figures and a man with folded hands. Bottom left, Houston Kalahasthi shows seated devotees with a puja tray. Bottom centre, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar shows people in white seated around offerings. Bottom right, Kailasa centre shows a man seated on a rug beside a red-draped altar. The panels are screen images, not physical people in the room.2013-10-20 +1 copiesSeptember 07 20132013-09-07May 04 20132013-05-04A 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.2013-05-03March 08 20132013-03-08 +1 copiesA multi-panel collage of video-link screens showing simultaneous ritual gatherings across several centres. Top left, labelled Los Angeles Arunachala, shows several people in white and orange seated on red mats in a hall, with a few brass vessels before them. Top centre, labelled San Jose Madurai, shows a seated man in a blue shirt and a woman in a red saree in a living room. Middle row, Seattle Chidambaram, shows a man in white pouring liquid into a brass bowl; Charlotte Srisailam shows two people in white seated before a shrine with a deity image and a tray of fruit; Houston Kalahasthi shows two men seated on a rug before a low table. Bottom row includes Ohio Pinyag, where a woman in orange sits before a lit fire pit, and Oman Sivagangai, where several people in white sit before an ornate decorated deity altar. The collage itself is a graphic of screens; the people shown are on screens, not physically present.2013-07-20December 30 20112011-12-30A photograph of a large display screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile is labelled with a city name in white text, including Phoenix Kanchipuram, Singapore Singapore, Los Angeles Arunachalam, New York Varanasi, Oklahoma Somnatham, Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjaini and San Jose Madurai. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and carpets in meditation or satsang postures, several wearing white kurtas and some in dark clothing, with shrine backdrops of deity murti and red drapes visible in several tiles. On the right edge of the screen a partial tile shows a seated figure in red and orange robes.2013-04-06A screen shows a multi-window video-conference grid of temple and ashram locations, each labelled with a printed caption: HYDERABAD, RAMESWARAM, TORONTO KAILASAM, LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA, SAN JOSE MADURAI, OHIO PRAYAG, OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM and CHARLOTTE SRISAILAM. In the Rameswaram window, a row of seated devotees in white, pink and green clothes sits on a mat, one man in blue palms together, with a banana-leaf offering plate before them. In the Toronto window a bald man in a dark robe stands, and seated devotees in saffron and white sit nearby. The Oklahoma window shows a deity altar with decorated murtis and a standing figure in white. Several people are visible across the windows, mostly seated in satsang or puja settings.2013-11-16 +1 copies