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A photograph of an indoor darshan session. On the left, a young man in an orange-saffron turban and orange wrap, wearing a white floral garland, leans forward smiling and extends both hands toward a bearded man on the right with long dark curly hair, who wears a white shirt and presses his palms together in greeting. Behind them a crowd stands in a room with a pale wall and a small framed portrait. Women in white and light lavender saris and white shirts stand watching, a child in white appears at the far left, and an older man in white glasses and a white shirt stands at the right edge. The orange-wrapped figure matches the presentation the page associates with a person, with a turban, saffron clothing and a garland; the identification is an appearance-based label only, and the calmly seated or standing presence is consistent with a darshan setting. About ten people are visible.

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