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A row of bare-chested male devotees sits cross-legged on mats in a plain hall, meditating with hands resting on knees and eyes lowered. Several men wear white sacred ash or tilak marks on their chests and foreheads, and some wear grey or black dhotis. Wooden doors stand in the background and white walls surround the room, with a thin blurred figure visible at the far left edge.

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April 15 20182018-04-15April 15 20182018-04-15A photograph of a group of men performing a standing yoga and prayer practice in a bright hall with a wooden door and a pink wall behind them. Foreground men are bare-chested with sacred threads over their shoulders, hands pressed in anjali mudra, eyes closed, with white marks on their skin and a gold bangle on one wrist. Behind them, other practitioners in black and cream trousers hold similar postures, and a wooden platform is visible. No clearly identifiable a person is shown in this scene.2018-04-16 +1 copiesApril 16 20182018-04-16 +1 copiesApril 16 20182018-04-16 +1 copiesA seated group of shirtless men in white dhoti-style cloths sits in a hall during what appears to be a ritual or meditative sitting. In the foreground a young man with light hair tied back in a bun wears a pendant necklace and a white paste mark on his forehead, eyes lowered. Beside him an older man with grey hair and a silver earring sits with hands together, and at the right edge a bald man in dark-rimmed glasses wears a long beaded rudraksha-style mala. Other participants with white marks on their bodies sit blurred in the background, and an orange-robed figure appears in the distance.2017-01-15A large group of shirtless men, many with white-painted bodies and yellow-marked foreheads, sits in rows on tan yoga mats in an ashram hall during a person Yoga practice. In the foreground a young man in dark navy trousers and a red-brown rudraksha-style necklace sits upright with eyes closed and arms resting on his knees. Beside him another man with a white cord necklace tilts his head back. Behind them more practitioners in dark and grey trousers sit in rows, with white chairs and framed religious pictures along the walls. No individual is identified as a person; all visible people are participants.2018-04-17April 16 20182018-04-16 +1 copiesA large hall of men in seated meditation on flat tan mats, most bare-chested and wearing dark navy or black trousers, some in maroon. Many wear rudraksha or cord necklaces and a few have tilak marks on the forehead. The men sit cross-legged with hands resting on knees or in mudra, eyes closed, in a yoga or meditation session. Behind them are white chairs, a golden altar area and a red-curtained stand. No identifiable a person is visible in this image.2018-04-26 +1 copiesJanuary 04 20132013-01-04A seated group of devotees with eyes closed during a satsang or meditation gathering on a blue-striped mat. In the foreground, a bespectacled man in white kurta with a rudraksha mala and a lanyard badge sits with hands folded. Beside him, a man in white with vertical tilak on his forehead sits with eyes closed, and a bald man in white looks down. On the right, a bare-chested man with white ash markings on his arms and forehead wears a white dhoti and red cloth. A child is blurred in the lower foreground, and other seated people are visible in the background.2011-10-15A photograph of a large group of shirtless men seated cross-legged on yellow mats across a white tiled hall, many with bare chests and white paste marks on their arms and foreheads. Several are holding their arms across their chests or shoulders in a repeated gesture, one in the foreground wears glasses and a white forehead mark, and a man in black trousers sits near the centre. Beige and brown ritual items lie on the floor, and a wooden carved screen and gold-toned decor stand in the background. The scene reads as a group ritual practice rather than a single speaker, and no individual is clearly identifiable as Swamiji.2018-04-16 +1 copies