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A photograph of a stage event under a white tent. Four men in saffron-orange robes stand around a tall brass oil lamp (deepam) wrapped with yellow and white flower garlands. The man on the left, in orange shawl and dhoti, reaches toward the lamp while smiling; behind him a man in an orange turban looks on. A smiling man with long hair and a rudraksha mala stands beside the lamp, and on the right a man in an orange turban and rudraksha mala holds a blue-bordered book titled Paths of Power. Behind them hang a banner with Kannada script and a row of framed portrait photos, and a red and gold chair sits to the right. Marigold and pink flower garlands decorate the stage edge. Printed portraits and banner text are not physical people. Visible physical people are four or five in the foreground, plus a partially visible man in orange at the far left edge.

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