A seated audience fills a hall in white and pale shirts, many wearing lanyards, with a man standing near the centre with hands raised in namaste. Plastic chairs and a crowded row of devotees face a stage. Behind them, a wooden framed display shows a decorated image above a wooden door, with a bookstall of pamphlets and a white banner along the left wall. - Nithyanandapedia

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A seated audience fills a hall in white and pale shirts, many wearing lanyards, with a man standing near the centre with hands raised in namaste. Plastic chairs and a crowded row of devotees face a stage. Behind them, a wooden framed display shows a decorated image above a wooden door, with a bookstall of pamphlets and a white banner along the left wall.

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June 20 2008

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