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A photograph of a large video wall displaying a multi-screen grid of live feeds from several ashram locations. Tiles labelled Los Angeles Aadheenam, St. Louis-Manchester, Morris Plains NJ, Ponca City Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, Atlanta Georgia, Wellington New Zealand, Sydney Australia and Calgary Alberta show groups of devotees sitting on mats and cushions, some in white and saffron clothing, some with white head coverings, some in group meditation or practice. The screens are dark-framed against a black background. The people on screen are shown only as images, while a few people seated in the room are partly visible at the edges.

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A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-call tiles, each a live feed from a different centre, with white captions naming locations such as St. Louis Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Dubai Aadheenam, Ponca City Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, Morris Plains NY, San Diego, Seattle Aadheenam, Winnipeg Canada, Wellington New Zealand and Lochana North San Antonio. Participants sit cross-legged or on chairs in ashram-style rooms with framed pictures, cushions and flower garlands; several wear white, orange or saffron clothing. In the bottom right tile a man with a red-and-gold turban and a trident-marked orange shawl sits before a red curtain.2015-08-08Photograph of a large display screen showing a video conference grid of many small panels, each labelled with an Aadheenam or city location such as St. Louis Aadheenam, Dubai Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Ponca City Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, San Diego, Seattle Aadheenam, Winnipeg Canada and Wellington New Zealand. Groups of people sit cross-legged on cushions or sofas in living rooms, many in white or cream clothing, reciting or meditating together. In the bottom-right panel a man in an orange-red turban, orange robes, rudraksha mala and ornate gold necklace sits on a throne-like chair beside a trident-shaped ornament, labelled Self View.2015-08-08August 08 20152015-08-08Two wall-mounted monitors in a dark room display a video conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile shows a group of people seated indoors in homes or centres, labelled with place names such as Los Angeles Aadheenam, St. Louis-Manchester, Morris Plains-NJ, Wellington-New Zealand, Ponca City-Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia and Toronto-Canada. Some tiles show people in white and orange clothing seated before a floor cloth or meditation setting. Depicted people are on screens, not physically present, and no in-person candidate is visible.2015-08-16June 14 20152015-06-14June 14 20152015-06-14 +1 copiesA large screen shows a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different Aadheenam centres, labelled SAN JOSE AADHEENAM, Oklahoma Adheenam, ATLANTA, CHICAGO, MEXICO, Los Angeles Aadheenam, NEW YORK AADHEENAM, PHOENIX-SEDONA and Charlotte Aadheenam. Participants sit cross-legged on floors and mats in white and saffron clothing, some wearing rudraksha malas, while others sit on sofas in ordinary clothes. Shrines with deity murti and garlands appear in several feeds.2015-06-15May 08 20132013-05-08January 16 20162016-01-16A photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram centres, labelled with place names such as Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Redmond WA, Oman Aadheenam, Dublin Ohio, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Seattle Aadheenam, Oklahoma Somanatham, San Jose Madurai and St. Louis Aadhinam. Participants in white and saffron clothes sit on mats, meditate or perform yoga postures in temple-style rooms with deity murtis, oil lamps, purple drapes and floral decorations. One feed shows a woman with white forehead markings and a red bindi close to the camera, while a man in a headset speaks in a Redmond WA box. No one in the physical room is shown except the viewers of the screen.2015-11-10June 08 20142014-06-08 +1 copiesA photograph of a large video-conference wall screen showing a grid of about a dozen live feeds from different ashram centres, each labelled in white caption bars: Singapore Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Port Washington NY, Calgary Amarnath, Philadelphia, Dallas Dwaraka, Hyderabad Aadheenam, London Aadheenam, Melaying Malaysia, Melbourne Aadheenam and St. Louis-Manchester. Inside the tiles, groups of devotees sit on floors and sofas in white and saffron clothes, some wearing red and orange shawls, while a few tiles show people in meditation posture. A tile in the upper left has a saffron-clad figure seated before a red and yellow backdrop, and in one tile a seated person wears an orange robe.2016-01-10