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Indoor satsang scene in a temple-style hall decorated with yellow and red flower garlands. A bare-chested man in reddish-maroon cloth with long swept-back hair and heavy gold necklaces sits on a gold throne, smiling and extending his hand to a woman in a maroon sari with a rudraksha mala. She holds a white and red flower garland. To the right, a man in black kurta with eyeglasses presses his palms together in greeting. Behind them, a woman in white sari and other devotees stand near a gilded deity murti and a gold-framed pillar, with a tiger-skin cushion at the lower left. a person: the seated bare-chested man with long hair, gold necklaces and maroon cloth fits the candidate cues, presented as a guru receiving devotees.

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