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A photograph inside a warmly lit hall with chandeliers, pillars and rows of brown chairs. A man in an orange-saffron turban, orange robe and rudraksha beads stands barefoot with palms pressed together in anjali, facing a line of people also in namaste. Among them, a woman in a blue top and bright pink-and-white scarf, a woman in a gold-brown sari, and a man in a white shirt stand near a camera on a tripod and a black camera bag. The orange-clad figure is an appearance-based Swamiji (probable), identified by the saffron turban, robe and rudraksha cues, and is shown in an attitude of greeting rather than on a throne.

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