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Devotees in white clothes stand with their backs to the camera, facing a temple shrine at dusk on an ashram. Inside the carved stone shrine stand deity murtis of Shiva and Devi, the one on the right with a crown and ornaments, decorated with yellow and orange marigold garlands and red cloth draped at the back. Brass oil lamps sit before the shrine. A man in orange robes stands at the right side holding a microphone, near a black stone Nandi-like figure with garlands. Several participants wear rudraksha or colourful beaded necklaces, and one woman has blonde dreadlocks tied up. Trees and red poles frame the scene.

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