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A photo from a satsang on a stage with dark red curtains. Behind him stands a gold-and-red throne backdrop with garlands in green, orange and yellow and a small gold deity murti. Seated before him on the floor, a group of devotees in white and orange clothes, including a woman in a white sari, a young man in white dhoti, and a woman in pink, listen in a seated satsang gathering. A silver tray of rice sits at lower left, and a gilded throne armrest appears at right.

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