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A standing man in an ornate cream and gold embroidered long coat with a red beaded shawl and a cream turban holds a brass multi-wick oil lamp aloft with flames in his right hand and a handbell in his left. Seated devotees in front, including a young man in an orange robe with hands in anjali and women in white, sit in an indoor hall decorated with red and pink flower garlands on railings. Shelves of framed pictures are visible behind. This is an aarti being performed before a seated audience.

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A man in a cream and gold embroidered sherwani and a cream turban holds a five-flame brass aarti lamp in his right hand and a brass handbell in his left, smiling as he performs aarti. A maroon and gold striped shawl drapes over his shoulder, and long dark hair falls past his shoulders. Behind him stands a seated crowd, and in the lower left a man in saffron robes with a rudraksha mala looks on. A framed portrait hangs on the wall behind, with shelves of devotional items beside it. Garlands of red flowers are visible at the bottom of the frame. The lighted lamp and bell mark an aarti ceremony in an ashram hall.2009-06-10Indoor ritual scene in a hall with a tin roof and white walls. A standing man in a gold embroidered sherwani with a long red shawl and a cream turban holds his hands together, while a young man in white with an orange shawl offers a brass plate of white flowers. Seated devotees in saffron and white clothes, one holding a small oil lamp, sit on striped mats beside a lit flame, with more people in rows behind them. Fruit, coconuts and small brass items are arranged on a table at left, and red and yellow garlands hang along a railing at right. A framed wall board with photographs is visible in the background.2009-06-10September 09 20122012-09-09September 10 20122012-09-10July 09 20152015-07-09 +1 copiesPhoto of a man with long swept-back dark hair and a white tilak with a red dot on his forehead, wearing an orange-red shawl over orange robes with a gold-bordered dhoti and a long rudraksha-style bead mala with a gold pendant. He holds a lit multi-wick oil lamp in one hand and a silver handbell in the other during an aarti. Behind him, several seated women with hands in anjali mudra watch the ritual in a dim hall. Probable Swamiji (long hair, distinctive saffron-and-gold attire, rudraksha mala) performing aarti as a satsang leader.2012-09-09September 10 20122012-09-10June 10 20092009-06-10September 10 20122012-09-10October 12 20172017-10-12September 10 20122012-09-10June 09 20092009-06-09