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A group of priests in white dhotis and shawls sits on the floor of a hall performing an aarti with lit oil lamps. The foreground priest on the left, with a horizontal white tilak on his forehead, holds a lamp and a small brass bell. Beside him, a younger priest wearing a rudraksha mala raises a lit lamp toward the front. Other men in white, some bare-chested with brass oil lamps and kumkum-marked brass plates, sit behind them, with brass bells and open books on the floor. In the upper left, a man in a brown robe and a grey shawl sits near a man in a blue shirt. A shaved-headed man with a white tilak sits at the lower right. A draped table with a green and gold cloth and steel vessels stands at the top right. Oil lamp puja, aarti, ritual satsang.

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