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Indoor photo in a pink-walled room with white floor tiles, a wooden chair and plastic chairs. A seated monk in saffron-orange robes with a bald head and a long garland of pink and yellow flowers sits with palms pressed together in namaste. Standing behind him is another monk in orange robes with his hands folded. A man in a grey shirt and dark trousers holds a black booklet. On the right, a man in white kurta and gold-bordered dhoti bends forward with hands on his chest, and a second man in white stands bent over near the chairs. A man in a white kurta and gold-bordered dhoti kneels on the floor, bowing with his forehead to the tiles, while small pink petals are scattered on the floor, consistent with a pada puja. A white cooling fan stands at the lower right. The page identifies the seated monk as Sri Kamalatmananda Swami, but no visible name confirms this.

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