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A life-size cardboard cutout of a smiling man in a red turban and red-saffron robes, seated cross-legged with raised palms, wearing marigold and yellow garlands and a rudraksha mala, stands on a red cloth altar in a home shrine room. The sign beside it reads Kailasa Perth Australia. Offerings in front include a brass plate with a lit flame, a bell, a conch-like brass vessel, a banana, a chapati and blue flowers in a glass bowl. Behind the altar are framed deity pictures, a gilded Krishna figure and a bowl of petals. No living people are visible. The cutout is a depiction, and its appearance matches the Swamiji (probable) cues of a red turban, saffron clothing and rudraksha mala.