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A photograph of a ritual offering in a hall with a red banner behind. A woman kneels at left in a mustard-yellow and maroon sari with a yellow and red flower garland, holding a white cloth over a gold vessel toward a man at right. The man at right wears a saffron-orange turban, a saffron-orange shawl and a long white beard, and is the figure the page identifies as Swamiji (probable), given the turban, saffron clothing and long white beard. Two men stand behind in maroon and rust cloths with rudraksha malas and forehead markings, and a figure at right edge wears white. A wall-mounted oil lamp stands at center left.

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