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A seated satsang gathering indoors, with a crowd of devotees behind a foreground group. In the front centre, a shaven-headed man in a saffron-and-yellow cloth wears a rudraksha mala, a pendant on a cord, and white sacred ash lines with a red tilak on his forehead. Beside him on the left, an older man in a white kurta wears glasses and a rudraksha mala. Behind them, a bare-chested elder with white ash marks and a mala sits, and a man in a striped shirt sits on the right with a laptop nearby. Several other devotees sit in the background, some in white and some with ash on their foreheads.

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