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Outdoor satsang gathering under a large red canopy with patterned fabric and green and red tassels, supported by a yellow metal scaffold frame. A dense crowd of several dozen people sits on the ground in white clothing, many wearing lanyards and red or white garlands. Women in white saris and salwar kameez sit among men in white shirts and dhotis. At the right, a deity murti stands draped in garlands and a large ornate backdrop; a microphone stand is visible at the edge. In the upper left, a figure in an orange-saffron robe stands near white-clad attendants amid trees. Smoke drifts in the left foreground.

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