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A communal meal in an open courtyard of an ashram-style building with white columns and arched doorways. Devotees in white clothes and rust-orange shawls sit at round tables with orange tablecloths, eating from white compartmented trays of rice and curries. A woman in a white top and beaded necklace in the foreground holds a spoon over her plate, and a girl in an orange shawl sits at the left. A man in an orange robe sits at a table in the background, and a silver jug, water bottles and orange juice stand on the table. Several other devotees serve food or move between tables.

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