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A smiling man sits on an ornate brown leather throne with gold carved lion-head armrests, holding a handheld microphone up to his mouth. He wears a saffron-orange draped garment, a long brown rudraksha-style bead mala across his chest, a red-and-black wrist thread, and a white-and-red tilak on his forehead. Shaved bare shoulder and arm show as he speaks. Blurred audience members appear at the edges of the frame in a warmly lit hall. The swamiji candidate shows long swept-back dark hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha mala, matching the page's note of a discourse event. Watermarked archive photo of a discourse setting.