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A photograph inside a tented satsang hall with red, orange and yellow draped fabric and a framed religious print of a deity on the upper right wall. Many seated devotees in saffron and orange robes sit on red and gold patterned carpets. A bearded man in an orange shawl and yellow dhoti stands at left, a man in a grey shirt and white dhoti stands center, and a man in white kurta stands at right. A turbaned sadhu in orange sits in the background with a flower garland on the wall. Potted palms and white chairs line the tent.

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