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Women and girls sit on the floor of a temple hall during a Bhagavad Gita satsang. In the foreground, two young girls, one in a striped grey and white top and one in a pink saree, sit cross-legged, the girl in pink writing in a notebook. Behind them, a woman in a red and orange embroidered kurta and white pants sits on a white patterned mat reading a small book, with a pink cloth holding a puja tray, brass items, flowers and a small lamp in front of her. Other women in saris and white and orange clothes sit on mats across the hall, and a row of seated attendees appears at the back. The floor is tiled and light, with a striped mat in the foreground.

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