Night photo of a brahmacharya training ritual on bare earth at an outdoor ashram ground. Many people in plain white clothes sit cross-legged inside circular fire pits, each ringed with glowing red embers. A single bright lamp illuminates the background, with a saffron flag on a pole, a low building and dark trees beyond. Most sitters are seated in meditative posture, facing the fire rings. - Nithyanandapedia

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Night photo of a brahmacharya training ritual on bare earth at an outdoor ashram ground. Many people in plain white clothes sit cross-legged inside circular fire pits, each ringed with glowing red embers. A single bright lamp illuminates the background, with a saffron flag on a pole, a low building and dark trees beyond. Most sitters are seated in meditative posture, facing the fire rings.

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Night photograph of a ground-level ritual at an outdoor ashram site. Many people in white clothing sit cross-legged inside rings of small lit oil lamps arranged in circles on bare earth. A few people in the foreground are clearly visible, one in the centre-right wearing a white top and white trousers, another seated to the left. A red-orange flag on a pole stands at the left edge beside a low building with lights. A bright lamp glows in the background. The scene reads as a group meditation or lamp-lit sitting.

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Night photograph of an open dirt ground at an outdoor ashram training event. Many people in white clothes sit in small circular formations with glowing red embers and small fires arranged around them. Several seated figures in white are visible in the foreground and background. Near the center, a figure in orange-saffron robes stands among the seated group beside a wooden ladder-like structure, with trees and a low wall at the edge. Smoke drifts through the dark scene.

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Night photograph of a large open ground lit only by many small red-orange flames arranged in rows and circles on the sand. Dozens of people in plain white clothing sit cross-legged around the fire rings, some with long hair. Trees and a low white structure appear in the dim background. One seated figure in the foreground wears a white garment with a reddish-brown shawl. The scene suggests a night ritual or homa-style fire ceremony, though the image is blurred and smoky.

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Night photograph of an outdoor ritual ground with many people seated in white clothes on sandy earth. Several small circular fire pits or rings glow with red embers, and smoke rises from some of them. Bright floodlights and a lit building stand in the background beneath dark trees. A single seated figure in the foreground wears white and sits at the edge of a glowing ring, with other white-clad participants spread across the field around the fires.

Night-time photograph of a sandy outdoor ground lit by many small oil lamps arranged in circular and ring-shaped patterns. Numerous people in white clothes sit cross-legged in rows across the ground in the dim background. In the foreground, one person in white with an orange shawl sits inside a lamp-ringed circle, with a second seated figure in white nearby. The scene appears to be a monastic training gathering with lamps placed around the seated participants.

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