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Photo from a stage event: a bearded man with long hair sits cross-legged on an ornate silver throne with carved lion figures and a canopy above, wearing an orange-red robe and a layered rudraksha mala with a large bead necklace. Smoke drifts across the stage beneath blue and white spotlights, and large projected images of stone temple pillars and carved sculptures fill the backdrop. In the foreground, a dense crowd of many people, seen from behind, holds up smartphones to record him, with some raising hands. Swamiji (probable): the seated figure has long swept-back hair, saffron-orange robes, rudraksha malas and a ceremonial throne, so he is marked as a probable in-person candidate.