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A large indoor satsang hall with a green floor and pale yellow walls, packed with hundreds of seated devotees on striped mats. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis, and some wear shirts in other colours; several have tilak marks on their foreheads. Many hold yellow booklets or small papers, and a few wear lanyards. Some devotees sit on white cushions near the front. At the upper left, a woman in a light sari stands near a microphone stand and speakers, and a clock and an upper gallery with railings appear on the right. Speaker stands and a monitor frame the scene. The crowd fills the hall to the back wall.

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