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A photograph of two men seated together on an ornate silver-and-cream carved sofa in front of gold draped fabric and a red stage backdrop. On the left, an older man with white hair, round-framed glasses and a grey moustache, wearing a white shirt and a rudraksha-style brown bead mala, holds a pink smartphone up for a selfie. On the right, a smiling man with long dreadlocked hair, white forehead tilak and a red bindi, a dark beard, and a gold pendant, wears a maroon-red sannyasi wrap draped over one shoulder and has a gold ring on his finger. He leans in beside the older man, reaching toward the phone. The man in the red wrap has distinctive long swept-back hair, a sannyasi robe and a gold ceremonial necklace, so he is a probable Swamiji candidate; the older man is a devotee in white.