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A large flat-screen monitor, branded VU, shows a grid of live video feeds from multiple locations, with a photograph of a green-and-red background at right. Top-left feed shows a man in a dark green garment standing before a decorated altar with a DALLAS sign. Next feed shows a group of people in white seated on a blue floor with a sign reading Ashram. Top-right feed shows a woman in white seated before a pink sofa and a PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK sign. Middle feeds show people seated in front of colourful deity murtis and a yagna area. Bottom-right feed shows a close-up of a smiling person in orange garments with a feathered crown, a red and yellow flower garland and a rudraksha-style necklace, surrounded by fruit and flowers.

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August 23 20112011-08-23August 23 20112011-08-23June 23 20122012-06-23 +2 copiesA photograph of a large wall-mounted video display showing a nine-panel video call grid of devotees seated in home shrine rooms in different cities. Labels include ATLANTA UJJAIN, PHILADELPHIA, HOUSTON KALAHASTHI, DALLAS DHARAKA, PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA and VANCOUVER PURI. Participants sit on mats and cushions before altars with flowers, fruit plates, deity pictures and oil lamps. In the bottom-right panel a bald man in an orange garment with beaded necklace appears on screen, and the grid includes a shaved-head man in white with rudraksha beads in the Victoria panel. Eight to ten physical people are visible across the rooms.2011-11-20June 23 20122012-06-23 +1 copiesA photograph of a flat-screen monitor displaying a nine-panel video grid of remote devotee groups joined to a satsang. Most panels show groups of people seated in homes or halls with ritual setups: decorated deity altars, kalasha pots, flower garlands and oil lamps. Printed name placards are visible in some panels, including one reading SINGAPORE and one reading OHIO. The monitor sits beside a dark second screen and a blue-lit display on the left.2011-08-20November 11 20112011-11-11November 17 20112011-11-17September 08 20112011-09-08A photograph of a large screen showing a video-conference grid of satsang participants from many locations, each labelled with a caption such as "PORT WASHINGTON NY", "Guadeloupe Rameshwaram", "SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM", "VANCOUVER PURI", "LONDON - KA..." and "CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM". Tiles show people seated or standing in home and temple rooms: a woman in orange sits on a chair in one tile, a woman in white and a woman in purple sit together on a bed in another, and a woman in red and white performs a puja before a framed photograph with a marigold garland. Several tiles show empty rooms and deity shrines.2013-04-13 +1 copiesFebruary 22 20112011-02-22 +1 copiesPhotograph of two monitors in a dim room showing a video-conference style grid of multiple live feeds. Tiles show groups of devotees in various settings, some seated around altars with deity murtis, lamps and flower garlands, and one tile labelled with the location SINGAPORE and another with PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK and VANCOUVER. In the lower right tile, a person wearing a red turban and a pink-and-yellow garment with a rudraksha-style necklace sits before an ornate decorated backdrop, a possible a person candidate on a screen, though the appearance is uncertain. The left monitor displays a text-heavy slide with a grid of additional small video tiles.2011-07-05