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Seated devotees in a gold-walled temple hall face a small deity shrine lined with rows of red-and-black figurines. A woman in a red and gold sari with a long mala sits at left beside a woman in a pink and gold sari and a woman in green. On the white marble floor, a bare-chested man with a rudraksha-style necklace sits near a man in a grey hoodie and a man in a grey top with white trousers. At right, an older woman in a white and gold-bordered sari and a man in white sit before a tripod-mounted phone recording the gathering. A brass pot stands near the shrine, with a small oil lamp and offerings on a red-draped table at the back. No speaker is clearly visible and no one appears to be the main focus; the scene reads as a group satsang or puja.

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