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A photograph of devotees seated under a thatched-roof open pavilion with a palm-leaf roof and wooden posts, at a rural ashram setting with trees behind. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with a white shawl sits on a low concrete platform beside a woman in a yellow top and a child in yellow. Centre-front, a woman in white with a white shawl and a woman in an orange shawl over white sit on the floor, with an orange-clad figure prominent. Several men in white and light kurtas sit along the far bench on the right, and more people sit or stand behind the pavilion. Green shrubs and a red pillar frame the right edge. A bag and sandals are placed on the ground.

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