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September 16 2012

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September 16 20122012-09-16September 16 20122012-09-16August 26 20122012-08-26February 14 20162016-02-14October 15 20122012-10-15A photograph of a large screen showing a grid of video-conference tiles from satsang participants in different cities. Tiles are labelled with city names such as Dallas-Dwaraka, East London, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, Paris-Kailasa, Ohio-Prayag, Prison-Kailasa and Palo Alto-Madurai. Participants sit in meditation or yoga postures in homes and rooms, some in saffron or orange clothes and some in white. A man in white kurta stands in a tile on the lower right, and a woman in orange clothing sits in another. A small logo appears in the upper left, and a rolled mat sits at the bottom right. The screen is blurred.2013-09-28 +1 copiesA photograph of a large flat-screen monitor showing a grid of video-conference tiles, each a separate remote group of devotees seated indoors. Tiles show people in white and cream clothing sitting on floors and sofas, with handwritten or printed place-name signs such as JUAREZ MEXICO, SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM, NEW JERSEY OMKARESHWAR, GUADELOUPE, SINGAPURAM and PARIS. One tile shows an altar with a lamp and a deity image. In the bottom right tile, a man with short hair wearing an orange-saffron robe and a beaded necklace speaks, seemingly on a stage; he has some a person cues but the appearance is not conclusive. Several tiles show people in white, and a red-clothed woman sits on a sofa.2013-01-12A grid of twelve video-conference tiles showing satsang participants in different centres, each labelled with a printed city or centre sign such as "Ohio Mayagi", "Guadeloupe", "Charlotte Srisailam", "Edgewater New Jersey", "St. Louis Tirumala", "Bangalore Marathahalli Center", "Saint Julien France", "Singapuram", "Austin", "Bangalore North" and "New York Varanasi". Participants sit on mats, rugs and sofas in ashram-style rooms, many in white or orange clothing, with a seated woman in red and white robes in the Saint Julien tile. Altars with lit oil lamps, flower garlands, kalasha-like offerings and framed deity pictures appear in several tiles. The bottom-right tile shows a smiling person in orange garments with a white forehead mark and rudraksha-style beads, cropped at the shoulders, against a gold-patterned background.2013-01-15January 12 20132013-01-12February 14 20152015-02-14A photograph of a monitor showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram and satsang centres during a remote satsang. Panels show people seated on floors and chairs in rooms with decorations, puja setups with oil lamps, fruit and flower offerings, and a pada-puja arrangement. Handwritten-style labels on the panels read place names including Monterey Mexico, Guadeloupe, Charlotte Kailasa, Singapuram, Oklahoma Sonnathan, St. Louis, Bangalore North, Newjersey Princeton, and Istanbul Turkey. In the bottom right panel a figure in white with a yellow garment performs a ritual. A bottom-centre panel shows a man in white with a red-and-gold backdrop and a forehead mark. A , , Source2012-10-05A photographed video-conference screen divided into a grid of many live tiles, each labelled with a location such as New Jersey Omkareshwar, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwari, Auckland (New Zealand), Sugar Land, Texas, Dallas-Dwaraka, Houston Kalahasti, Kastav Croatia and Oklahoma Somnath. Participants sit in living rooms and halls, some in white or saffron clothes with rudraksha malas, others in saryis and salwar kameez, many seated on sofas or floor mats in front of altars and deity images. The grid tiles show people on screens, not physical people in this scene.2014-09-22