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A projected screen shows a nine-panel grid of live video feeds from different centres, each labelled with a white sign: Ohio Prayag, New Jersey Omkareshwar, San Jose Madurai, Los Angeles Arunachala, Washington D.C. Sri Rudram, Houston Kanchipuram, Seattle Chidambaram. Participants sit on the floor in white and red clothing during group practice, with offerings and small brass items before them. In one panel, a photograph of a smiling woman in red and a seated figure in orange on an ornate throne appears beside a copyright-watermarked image. The scene shows a remote group session of the Nithya Kriya practice.

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November 06 20112011-11-06October 21 20112011-10-21October 20 20132013-10-20 +1 copiesOctober 08 20132013-10-08A multi-panel collage of video-link screens showing simultaneous ritual gatherings across several centres. Top left, labelled Los Angeles Arunachala, shows several people in white and orange seated on red mats in a hall, with a few brass vessels before them. Top centre, labelled San Jose Madurai, shows a seated man in a blue shirt and a woman in a red saree in a living room. Middle row, Seattle Chidambaram, shows a man in white pouring liquid into a brass bowl; Charlotte Srisailam shows two people in white seated before a shrine with a deity image and a tray of fruit; Houston Kalahasthi shows two men seated on a rug before a low table. Bottom row includes Ohio Pinyag, where a woman in orange sits before a lit fire pit, and Oman Sivagangai, where several people in white sit before an ornate decorated deity altar. The collage itself is a graphic of screens; the people shown are on screens, not physically present.2013-07-20May 27 20122012-05-27June 06 20122012-06-06 +1 copiesAugust 29 20112011-08-29 +1 copiesFebruary 19 20132013-02-19 +1 copiesAugust 29 20112011-08-29 +1 copiesApril 13 20132013-04-13A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09