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A man takes a close selfie in front of a shrine wall decorated with pink, yellow and white flower garlands. He has a white sacred ash line and a red bindi on his forehead, a dark cord with a pendant around his neck, and a bare upper body with a white cloth. Beside him stands a large life-size cardboard cutout of a smiling man seated in lotus pose, wearing an orange-red turban, orange-red robes, rudraksha beads, gold chains and garlands, holding his hands in meditation mudra. Beneath the cutout are yellow and white flowers on a glass shelf, a small framed picture, a printed poster of a deity with a golden crown and a figure of a seated sage, and a framed photo of a deity. Swamiji candidate is a printed cutout, so it is a depiction; appearance cues are orange-red turban, robes, rudraksha beads and gold ornaments, but identity is unsure.

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