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A large seated congregation fills a bright hall at a satsang. Most attendees wear white dhotis and shirts, while many women wear maroon and red salwar-style outfits with gold trim and some wear orange saris. Several young girls in maroon dresses with gold borders sit in front, and a few have vertical tilaks on their foreheads. Metal stanchions divide the rows. Behind them, several orange cushions or bolsters and a framed portrait of a woman on a small easel stand against the back wall. The audience looks attentively toward the front of the hall.

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A large indoor satsang hall with cream walls and high windows, filled with a seated congregation of well over one hundred people. Most wear white ritual clothing, while women in the foreground wear orange and red saris with gold borders, some with flower garlands and gold bangles. Orange and red bolsters and cushions line the front area, and framed portraits hang on the walls, including a painted deity image near the top. A standing figure in white stands near the centre of the room. Patterned banners in red, blue and yellow hang from the ceiling, and a video camera on a tripod sits at the right edge.2013-01-20January 20 20132013-01-20A large seated congregation fills a hall during a satsang. In the foreground, women in orange and maroon saris with rudraksha malas sit close together, several with white vibhuti marks on their foreheads. Behind them, rows of devotees in white kurtas and dhotis sit on red cushioned mats, with a woman in a red head wrap and a white outfit at left and a woman with a rudraksha mala in white at centre. White pillars with a rope divider run through the seating area and red curtains hang on the back wall. The overall scene is a crowd of many devotees listening in silence.2014-07-06October 14 20122012-10-14A seated audience of women and girls fills a plain hall at a satsang. Foreground girls wear maroon salwar-style dresses with gold trim and gold necklaces, one holding a blue-beaded mala and looking up attentively. Behind them, women in white sarees and white kurtas sit in rows, and a woman with fair hair and glasses sits at right. Metal crowd barrier posts and a rope run across the front, a white-framed window is at the top, and water bottles and a small plush toy sit on the floor. No one at the front is clearly visible as a speaker.2013-01-19May 16 20132013-05-16A seated audience fills a bright hall at a satsang. Foreground women and girls wear white saris with orange-red borders and maroon uniforms with gold trim; one woman in the front centre has eyes closed with rudraksha beads at her neck. Many rows behind wear white and pastel clothing, and some sit on chairs near the back wall. No speaker or a person is visible in this frame, so no candidate is identified. A metal stanchion and a small cloth-covered container sit at the lower right edge. Visible people total roughly thirty to forty.2013-01-19April 17 20162016-04-17September 23 20162016-09-23A large seated congregation fills a hall with pink walls and red curtains, many devotees in white dhotis and kurtas with orange lanyards and folded hands in prayer. In the foreground rows of boys wear maroon tunics with yellow trim and white vibhuti marks on their foreheads, sitting cross-legged. Women in white and green saris sit among them. A framed painting of a standing robed figure hangs on the back wall above the crowd, and a dark-robed person in the left background faces the assembly. The scene suggests a satsang gathering.2013-05-19July 06 20142014-07-06 +1 copiesA large indoor hall with a white tiled floor and pink walls, filled with a seated crowd of devotees dressed mostly in orange-saffron robes and white dhotis. Many wear rudraksha malas and white forehead markings, and some hold hands folded in anjali. Large screens on the back wall show colourful images of people. Foreground devotees, including young boys in orange and a child in a white and yellow outfit, face toward the front. No single person is clearly identifiable as a person in this crowd shot, so the candidate is left uncertain.2017-07-05