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A large outdoor gathering of devotees dressed mostly in white sits on a mat under palm trees before orange-painted ashram buildings. Many have their palms pressed together in anjali, and some hold hands raised in greeting. In the centre foreground, a man with a red tilaka on his forehead and a white shirt stands with palms joined, while a woman in a light top and jeans stands nearby. A row of small statues stands in the courtyard, and a red-and-white pole rises at the left edge. Several men at the right wear white dhotis and shawls. The scene reads as a satsang or discourse with the audience seated on the ground.

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