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January 11 20172017-01-11September 30 20162016-09-30A girl in saffron-orange robes and rudraksha beads sits cross-legged on a white floor, lighting a small flame from a lamp with her right hand while holding a brass bell. In front of her are brass plates, oil lamps, candles, a trident-shaped object and a brass pot. Beside her another young girl in black leggings and a purple top sits with her hands near the offerings. Behind them, many seated men with bare chests, saffron cloths, rudraksha malas and white forehead markings are gathered in a blurred hall. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person.2017-01-04A young man with long dark hair tied back sits bare-chested at a puja, holding a lit oil lamp aloft in his right hand. He wears a red and beige beaded mala, a pendant necklace, a small hoop earring and a bracelet, with white sacred ash marks on his chest and forehead. Behind him, several other devotees in orange cloth sit in soft-focus, with warm bokeh lights and a blurred interior hall.2017-01-12A seated man with long, dark, swept-back hair and a red tilak on his forehead sits on a carved wooden chair, wearing an orange sleeveless wrap over a red undershirt and a long rudraksha mala. He holds a small brass lamp with a lit flame in one hand, while a second man in orange robes beside him holds a silver bell. Before them on a tray are gold and brass puja vessels, a kalasha, incense sticks, a silver bowl, dishes of almonds and fruit, and a silver platter. The scene appears to be a puja or aarti in progress. The man with the long hair and rudraksha mala matches the appearance cues associated with Swamiji, so the appearance-based label is probable.2007-11-12A young man with long dreadlocked hair and a tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged on a pink mat, wearing an orange sannyasi-style garment with a red inner shawl and rudraksha malas around his neck and arms. He holds a thread and reaches toward a brass kalasha-like pot on a tray, with brass dishes, a small brass cup and a folded paper slip nearby. Other orange-robed and white-clad devotees sit behind him in a blurred row, and a poonal-style thread is visible during a ritual setting.2016-08-18September 27 20132013-09-27A young man with long dark hair tied back sits bare-chested in the foreground, holding a small brass oil lamp aloft in his right hand while looking toward it. He wears a thick rudraksha mala across his chest, a pendant on a chain, beaded bracelets, earrings, and white horizontal sacred markings on his chest and arms. Behind him, blurred figures in orange cloth sit in rows at a hall, with warm bokeh lights.2017-01-12February 02 20172017-02-02Two young men in saffron-orange dhoti-style garments with gold borders and rudraksha malas perform an aarti ritual on a red floor. The man in front, in profile, has long dreadlocked hair piled in a topknot, white markings on his arms and chest, and a beaded bracelet. He holds a brass bell in his right hand. The other man on the left holds a lit oil lamp with a flame on an ornate stand, and has similar saffron cloth and beads. Seated devotees in the background wear red and white clothes. Two more oil lamps glow at the right edge.2016-05-02January 12 20172017-01-12January 25 20172017-01-25