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A photograph taken from behind a seated congregation on a covered veranda with orange-red walls. Devotees sit on mats on the floor facing a central figure seated on an orange-draped platform at the far end. The figure wears a red turban, a red garment and multiple rudraksha malas, with hands raised in a teaching gesture. In the foreground, shirtless men in white dhotis with sacred threads sit beside women in green, cream and pink saris, and a bag printed with Pachaiyappa's branding lies at the lower left. The scene is a seated satsang with a discourse being given.

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