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A photograph of a monitor displaying a grid of video-conference feeds from a satsang session. Top-left tile labelled "Melbourne Thiruvarur" shows a woman with long hair in a blue top. Next tile labelled "LONDON KASHI" shows an older bald man in white ritual clothing seated before a wall of framed artwork. Top-right tile shows a woman in a red top and pink shawl holding a sign. Middle row includes tiles labelled "Seattle Chidambaram" and "SCOTTSDALE AZ" with indoor room settings, and a tile labelled "Oklahoma Somanatham" showing several people seated on green carpet before colourful deity murtis and a red-and-gold shrine. Bottom row includes tiles labelled "LOS ANGELES-HOLLYWOOD", "OMAN SIVAGANGAI", and a tile showing a person in red and gold. Visible physical people are seen across the screen feeds rather than in the room with the monitor.

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January 29 20152015-01-29A photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel collage of video stills from temple and ashram gatherings. Several panels show groups of people seated on floors and mats before decorated altars with deity murtis, garlands and flowers. A bottom-centre panel shows a bare-chested man with a white tilak, rudraksha-style garland and a red-patterned backdrop, and a right-hand panel shows a figure in saffron robes seated among offerings. Some panels carry printed city-name signs such as Seattle, Oklahoma Sonnetham and San Jose Madurai. The collage content is screen imagery, so no physical people are counted in the room beyond the handful of people in the scene behind the monitor.2012-09-26May 02 20132013-05-02February 22 20132013-02-22 +1 copiesOctober 10 20122012-10-10A photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live two-way video conference feeds from ashram centres, each labelled with a city name in white captions. Panels include Oklahoma Somnatham, Malaysia Palani, Los Angeles Arunachala, Seattle Chidambaram, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Toronto Kailasam and Ohio Prayag. In most panels people sit cross-legged on floor mats and cushions in front of altars with deity murtis, kalasha pots, oil lamps and offering plates, several in white and saffron or orange saris. A man in a white shirt sits at the centre of the Toronto panel. The photographed screen shows several dozen small figures across panels, and the visible people are seated devotees and participants.2013-03-08April 13 20132013-04-13A photograph of a large display screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile is labelled with a city name in white text, including Phoenix Kanchipuram, Singapore Singapore, Los Angeles Arunachalam, New York Varanasi, Oklahoma Somnatham, Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjaini and San Jose Madurai. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and carpets in meditation or satsang postures, several wearing white kurtas and some in dark clothing, with shrine backdrops of deity murti and red drapes visible in several tiles. On the right edge of the screen a partial tile shows a seated figure in red and orange robes.2013-04-06Photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live feeds from multiple temple centres. Tiles show groups seated on floors performing puja, with shrines of deity murtis decorated with red and gold drapery, oil lamps, and kalasha-style offerings. Printed labels on tiles read Phoenix Kanchipuram, Seattle Vedamandaram, Oklahoma Somnathan, Toronto Sivalayam and San Jose Madurai. In the lower right tile, a man in orange and white ritual clothing with a red-and-gold ornate backdrop and a gold necklace is seated on a throne; a caption reads 'Paramahamsa Nithyananda' area text not clearly legible. Bottom right corner carries a copyright notice.2012-10-17A photograph of a large screen displaying a video-conference grid of many small panels, each showing a different location for a satsang. Labels on the panels read SHARJAH, ANANDA NAGARAM - HYDERABAD, MACHO SPAIN, OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM, PHOENIX KANCHIPURAM, SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM, PARIS HOME TEMPLE, Toronto Kailasam, Los Angeles Arunachala, and OHIO PRAYAG. Participants sit on cushions and mats in rooms with pink, orange and red decor, many with hands folded in namaskar. One panel shows a man in an orange and green turban and orange robe with hands pressed together, and another shows a bearded man in a turban and saffron attire seated in a room with a red-cushioned sofa. Several panels show devotees in white and orange clothing, with deity images and flowers visible, and a few show individual women in white and red sitting in meditation.2013-04-25A video-conference screen shows a grid of live feeds from multiple a person centres, with location labels such as Seattle Chidambaram, Yananda Nagaram Hyderabad, Sharjah, Oklahoma Somnatham, Malaysia Palani, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Ohio Prayag, Toronto Kailasam and Los Angeles Arunachala. Participants sit on mats and cushions in meditation or satsang postures, some in white and some in saffron or orange clothing. In the Phoenix feed, a figure in orange sits at the front of the hall. Several rooms have deity murti, flower offerings and a kalasha. In the Sharjah feed, a portrait on the wall shows a figure in an orange turban beside a seated man in white. The screen is seen from the front in an office or hall setting.2013-04-13A photograph of a large video-conference screen tiled with many live feeds from different ashrams and centres, shown as a grid of small panels. Visible panels include a group sitting in meditation on a red and white floor, people seated on carpets in a room with a large deity shrine, a man in white in a bright red-accented room, and a woman in a light blue top labelled Hyderabad Gupta Kashi. Panels are captioned with place names such as Oklahoma Aadheenam, Philadelphia, Playa del Carmen-Mexico, Ohio Aadheenam, Houston Kalahasti, Bogota-Colombia, Dallas and Dakota Dunes. Several people in saffron and white clothing sit cross-legged. No individual is clearly identifiable as the a person from the visible frames, so no candidate is flagged.2015-08-08