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Outdoor photo of a morning satsang at an open-air courtyard with a corrugated roof strung with orange and red pennant flags and hanging tassel decorations. A man with long hair, wearing an orange robe and rudraksha mala, sits cross-legged on a mat at the front of a floor circle of grey stones and coloured kolam designs, with a brass vessel before him. A row of seated devotees in white clothes sits on the right near a red-and-white striped platform, where a figure in red sits and a white statue stands at the edge. A white van with a painted image is parked at left, with palm trees and an orange building behind. Probable Swamiji cues: long swept-back hair, orange saffron robe and rudraksha mala.

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