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Outdoor photo at an ashram courtyard with palm trees and a red-roofed building behind. A row of men in white ritual clothes and white shirts stand on a sandy ground with coloured kolam rangoli patterns near a small fire pit. One man in white dhoti kneels and bends forward to touch the ground, another in a white shirt and light blue trousers touches his chest with a hand, and a bearded man in white kurta with rudraksha mala stands with hands folded. A woman in a light grey sari stands at the right edge. Bamboo mats lie on the ground and a wooden temple structure stands at the right. No one in the image is identifiable as a person.

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