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A photograph of an indoor hall with beige walls and wall-mounted fabric panels. A large portrait printed on a poster hangs on the back wall, showing a smiling man with a white turban and dark beard, wearing white clothing and a beaded mala. A seated man in white clothes with a short beard sits on a white-draped chair in front of the portrait. A woman in a white sari stands at left holding a clear plastic bag. Rows of seated women in colourful saris sit on mats facing the front, many wearing white cloth blindfolds tied over their eyes. A small chakra chart with a blue figure in meditation posture hangs on the left wall.

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A photograph of a seated teacher in an orange-saffron robe speaking into a microphone on a low stage in a wood-panelled hall. Rows of audience members sit on blue chairs facing the stage, many in white or light clothing. Behind the speaker is a green board and a chart titled in Tamil showing a blue-figured meditating body with seven chakra points. To the left stands a white-draped table with a framed painting of a seated figure in orange and a small red floral offering, and a framed portrait hangs on the wall. A person seated in the centre has a shaved head and wears a white shawl. The scene appears to be a discourse or satsang session.Participants sit in rows on blue mats in a hall during a meditation session, most wearing white headbands over their eyes. In the foreground a man in a checked shirt and a woman in a blue-and-white checked sari sit on chairs, facing a seated figure in orange robes on a white-draped chair at the front. 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