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A bare-chested man with short grey hair and thin-framed glasses stands with palms pressed together in namaste at chest level, eyes closed and mouth slightly open as if chanting. He wears multiple rudraksha mala strands around his neck and a red-and-gold bracelet on one wrist, with a red sacred thread visible at his waist. Behind him, blurred devotees sit in a warm-lit hall, including a seated man with a white tilak on his forehead and hands folded, and a standing figure in pink. Warm orange light glows in the background. No clear a person cues such as a saffron robe or long swept-back hair are visible, so identity remains uncertain.

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January 15 20172017-01-15January 12 20172017-01-12Photograph of a seated group of devotees in a hall during a ritual, many with bare upper bodies and white ritual cloths. In the foreground a bald man with glasses and a dark rudraksha mala, with white sacred ash on his forehead and gold bangles, presses his palms together in anjali mudra with eyes lowered. Beside him a man with a bare chest and reddish-brown beaded necklace also sits with hands folded. Lit oil lamps and a pink mat are visible on the floor, with orange-robed figures blurred in the background. Whether the foreground man is a person cannot be determined from appearance alone.2017-01-15December 18 20162016-12-18January 06 20172017-01-06January 12 20172017-01-12 +1 copiesPhotograph of a satsang-style gathering in a hall with many seated devotees. In the foreground a young man with shoulder-length wavy dark hair, bare-chested and wearing a rudraksha mala with a small pendant, holds his palms together in anjali with eyes closed. Nearby seated men are also bare-chested with white sacred markings on their shoulders and arms, some in white dhoti-style cloth, and one at right wears an orange turban. Blurred devotees fill the background before a pale wall with a framed picture. No identifiable a person candidate is clearly visible.2017-01-03January 08 20172017-01-08January 12 20172017-01-12August 11 20162016-08-11Photograph of devotees in prayer at a satsang gathering. In the foreground a man with swept-back white-grey hair and white vertical tilak on his forehead sits with palms pressed together in namaste, eyes closed, wearing layered rudraksha malas and a round pendant with a portrait. Beside him a bald man with glasses, wearing a white cloth over bare shoulders with white ash markings, also holds his hands in anjali. Blurred figures in orange and white clothing sit behind them in the hall, and a blurred warm light glows at left.2017-01-06January 08 20172017-01-08