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A close photograph of a man with long, swept-back dark hair and a shaved-looking forehead marking, wearing an orange saffron shawl with a gold border and multiple strands of rudraksha beads around his neck. He is seated with his eyes lowered and a faint smile, one hand raised in a gesture toward a blurred brass oil lamp with a lit flame on the right. A gold bangle is visible on his upper arm. Swamiji (probable): long dark hair, saffron shawl and rudraksha malas, presenting as a speaker or ritual participant with a lamp in the scene.