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A photograph of a temple-hall ritual with musicians and devotees. In the foreground a man in a brown shirt plays a long wind instrument, a nadaswaram-style pipe. Beside him a man in white dhoti and shirt with an orange-and-maroon shawl plays a barrel drum. Behind them a bare-chested priest in white dhoti with rudraksha mala and gold necklace stands with hands in anjali, and another man kneels in prayer. Further right a bare-chested man and a woman in white stand with palms joined. A gilded chair with red cushion sits against a wall displaying a world map titled Nithyananda Vedic Temples, with Kannada text and the slogans We run 30 temples around the world and We inspired ... over the world. Petals lie on the floor.

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