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A video-conference grid of nine live feeds from different Aadheenam centres, each labelled with a banner: Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Singapore Aadheenam, Navalur-Chennai, Toronto Aadheenam, Hyderabad Aadheenam, Mumbai-Parlapoornananda, Pudhuvai Aadheenam, Hyderabad Guptakashi, and a Self View tile. Participants in white clothes sit cross-legged on mats with notebooks, some wearing saffron and red shawls. Along the top row, a Kuala Lumpur hall shows many seated people before a deity altar, and a Singapore shrine has colourful murtis and flower garlands. In the bottom-right, a woman in a black hat with red beads smiles in a self-view tile. The screen is a photograph of a monitor displaying the stream.

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January 31 20162016-01-31A multi-panel video call collage showing satsang participants from several KAILASA aadheenam centres, each panel labelled with a centre name. Top left, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam: a crowd of people in white clothes seated on a blue-draped floor before an altar with deity murtis. Top centre, Singapore Aadheenam: seated devotees in white and saffron before a shrine with murtis and red drapes. Middle row, Toronto Aadheenam: people in saffron and white seated in chairs and on the floor of a hall. Centre, Hyderabad Aadheenam: seated participants on a floor mat with a pink bag nearby. Bottom left, Pudhuvai Aadheenam: seated people before a shrine with deity murtis. Bottom centre, a woman in white with a saffron sash holds a sign reading Hyderabad Gupta Kashi. Right-hand panels show further seated devotees, including Navalur-Chennai and Mumbai-Paripoornananda, plus a Sri View panel.2016-01-31January 16 20162016-01-16June 20th 20152015-06-20 +1 copiesA photograph of a large video-wall screen showing a grid of live video-conference feeds for a satsang, with a cinema-like frame and a grey wall around it. Each tile is labelled with a city-and-temple name, including Houston Kalashasthi, Charlotte Srisailam, Los Angeles Arunachala, Ohio Prayag, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Oklahoma Somanatham, Toronto Kailasam, Kuala Lumpur Palani and Seattle Chidambaram. Participants sit on mats and cushions in ashram-style rooms; some wear saffron and orange robes, others white, and several have shaved or covered heads. One Toronto tile shows a man in dark robes and a head covering seated by a small offering. Altars with deity murtis, orange drapes and a large framed portrait appear in several tiles. The screen shows people only on screens, so no physical participants are in the photographed room; the feeds show seated devotees in groups.2013-11-15November 10 20152015-11-10A screen-capture grid of a video satsang with multiple live-feed panels from different ashram locations. Top left, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam shows a deity murti on a purple-draped altar with a purple cloth backdrop and several people seated on the floor. Top right, Los Angeles Aadheenam shows two people in orange robes seated on the floor beside chairs, with a woman in white. Middle left shows a living room with a sofa and a pink table, empty of people. Center shows a woman with tilak and a bead mala labelled PHOENIX Kanchipuram, beside a person in orange. Middle right, Toronto-Kailash shows people in orange robes seated on mats. Bottom left shows a bald man in white seated on a floor labelled Guadeloupe Aadheenam. Bottom center shows a person in orange with a rudraksha mala labelled Muktha-Seattle, with a Seattle, WA caption above. Bottom right shows a smiling woman in a black hat and red-orange robes labelled Self View. Several panels are live video feeds of participants.2016-01-27November 25 20142014-11-25November 09 20142014-11-09 +1 copiesNovember 09 20142014-11-09 +1 copiesA screen shows a multi-window video-conference grid of temple and ashram locations, each labelled with a printed caption: HYDERABAD, RAMESWARAM, TORONTO KAILASAM, LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA, SAN JOSE MADURAI, OHIO PRAYAG, OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM and CHARLOTTE SRISAILAM. In the Rameswaram window, a row of seated devotees in white, pink and green clothes sits on a mat, one man in blue palms together, with a banana-leaf offering plate before them. In the Toronto window a bald man in a dark robe stands, and seated devotees in saffron and white sit nearby. The Oklahoma window shows a deity altar with decorated murtis and a standing figure in white. Several people are visible across the windows, mostly seated in satsang or puja settings.2013-11-16 +1 copiesA photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram centres, labelled with place names such as Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Redmond WA, Oman Aadheenam, Dublin Ohio, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Seattle Aadheenam, Oklahoma Somanatham, San Jose Madurai and St. Louis Aadhinam. Participants in white and saffron clothes sit on mats, meditate or perform yoga postures in temple-style rooms with deity murtis, oil lamps, purple drapes and floral decorations. One feed shows a woman with white forehead markings and a red bindi close to the camera, while a man in a headset speaks in a Redmond WA box. No one in the physical room is shown except the viewers of the screen.2015-11-10