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A photograph of a ritual blessing inside a hall with gold-coloured decor. A bare-chested man with long dark swept-back hair, a full beard, a white forehead band, a red-and-gold shawl and a large rudraksha mala with a gold pendant places his palm on the forehead of a grey-haired, clean-shaven man in a white kurta and a red-orange shawl with a beaded mala, who holds his hands together in respect. Behind them, a shaven-headed attendant in white with a white forehead mark and gold-beaded garland sits, and other people in white dhotis and orange shawls stand in the background. The scene reads as a pada puja or blessing ritual. The bearded man with long hair and rudraksha is an appearance-based Swamiji (probable) candidate, present in person.

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