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Photograph of a large seated audience inside a hall at a Living Enlightenment initiation convention, with people filling rows of blue plastic chairs and aisles toward a distant stage. Many attendees wear white shirts and white dhotis, while women wear saris in magenta, purple and green; a bald man in the front row wears a white shirt with a rudraksha-style bead necklace. Ceiling fluorescent lights, a black speaker and a wall banner reading RAMRAJ with a small purple logo hang in the hall. The scene is dense, with many dozens of people visible, and no clearly identifiable figure at the stage is shown.

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