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A seated audience of devotees fills a room with a golden deity murti and a tall ornate golden canopy on the left, a standing figure with a garland of beads on a pedestal, and a standing deity figure in gold at right. Several people sit cross-legged on a mat in front of trays of sliced fruit and offerings, including a man in a light blue kurta with a mala and a man in orange-patterned kurta. Women wear saris in orange, teal, pink and red, and a young woman with long braided hair sits near a laptop on a black table. Some attendees appear to be listening or meditating while others sit on chairs at the back.

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