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A photograph of a seated man in a red turban and red silk garment with gold border, wearing a marigold and yellow-orange flower garland and rudraksha mala, smiling with palms pressed in greeting. He sits behind a ritual display: a white marble Ganesha figure, a gold sri yantra-style meru, bananas, apples, a brass plate of fruit and flowers, a steel tumbler, a bell, and a small dark Shiva-type murti near a window. A paper sign partly reading 'SA' and 'EGO' is on the left wall. The seated man is a probable Swamiji by the page cues: red turban, marigold garland, rudraksha mala and red silk clothing, presented as a devotee-facing ritual scene with an orange cloth on the altar. Puja offerings are arranged in front of him.

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A large seated figure in a white turban and orange-brown saffron robes with dark rudraksha mala beads raises one hand in blessing beside a shrine corner. The figure may be a statue or life-size depiction, with a smiling face and a red-orange tilak. In front lies a yellow-draped altar with a white marble Ganesha, a golden shri yantra and meru, a gold-framed image, a red deity murti, apples, pink flowers, brass dishes, a black shivalinga with rudraksha mala, and a small brass kalasha. A pink handwritten sign reading 'KAILASA SAN DIEGO' is on the left wall, and a 'GURU PURNIMA' card sits on the altar. Sunlit window blinds are at right.A photograph of a life-size cutout or printed standing figure of a smiling man in a red turban and red draped robe with gold border, seated on a platform, with orange and yellow marigold garlands and rudraksha beads around the neck and a trident beside him. 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