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A screen-capture grid of a video satsang with multiple live-feed panels from different ashram locations. Top left, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam shows a deity murti on a purple-draped altar with a purple cloth backdrop and several people seated on the floor. Top right, Los Angeles Aadheenam shows two people in orange robes seated on the floor beside chairs, with a woman in white. Middle left shows a living room with a sofa and a pink table, empty of people. Center shows a woman with tilak and a bead mala labelled PHOENIX Kanchipuram, beside a person in orange. Middle right, Toronto-Kailash shows people in orange robes seated on mats. Bottom left shows a bald man in white seated on a floor labelled Guadeloupe Aadheenam. Bottom center shows a person in orange with a rudraksha mala labelled Muktha-Seattle, with a Seattle, WA caption above. Bottom right shows a smiling woman in a black hat and red-orange robes labelled Self View. Several panels are live video feeds of participants.

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February 10 20152015-02-10September 09 20112011-09-09A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09A 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.2015-11-10November 10 20152015-11-10A photograph of a screen showing a grid of live video-conference feeds from several satsang locations. Labelled tiles include Toronto Kailasam, Guadeloupe Rameshwaram, Seattle Chidambaram, Nithyananda Nagaram Hyderabad, Ohio Prayag, Kuala Lumpur Palani and Los Angeles Arunachalam. Several people sit cross-legged on the floor in orange and white clothing, some with shaved heads. In the Toronto tile a shirtless man stands in front of a seated group, while in the Palani tile people in orange robes sit before a shrine with deity murtis and a pink cloth. A portrait-like figure on screen is not counted. The Ohio tile shows altars and framed deity images behind seated devotees.2014-03-06A video-conference grid of nine live feeds from different Aadheenam centres, each labelled with a banner: Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Singapore Aadheenam, Navalur-Chennai, Toronto Aadheenam, Hyderabad Aadheenam, Mumbai-Parlapoornananda, Pudhuvai Aadheenam, Hyderabad Guptakashi, and a Self View tile. Participants in white clothes sit cross-legged on mats with notebooks, some wearing saffron and red shawls. Along the top row, a Kuala Lumpur hall shows many seated people before a deity altar, and a Singapore shrine has colourful murtis and flower garlands. In the bottom-right, a woman in a black hat with red beads smiles in a self-view tile. The screen is a photograph of a monitor displaying the stream.2016-01-31A photograph of a screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple KAILASA aadheenam locations, each tile labelled with a centre name such as Seattle Aadheenam, San Jose Aadheenam, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, New Jersey Omkareshwar, NY Aadheenam Queens, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam and Dublin, Ohio. Tiles show a woman in yellow seated on cushions near a rug, two women in red and pink seated on black mats, people in a living room, a group in red seated before a deity altar in New York, a woman in red seated on a red cushion in Los Angeles, a woman seated on a rug in Toronto, a woman in a bed-like setting in Dublin, and a decorated shrine with a figure in white in Oman. The screen shows the tiles, not physical people in this room, so no one in the scene is counted; the visible people are on the screen.2015-10-18April 13 20132013-04-13February 24 20152015-02-24Photograph of a wall-mounted screen showing a nine-panel video call grid of satsang participants from different centres. Labelled panels include Ohio, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Cluj Romania, Slovakia Koshitze, St. Louis Aadheenam, and Seattle. Panels show a woman with a bindi, women in orange and red clothes, a seated figure in orange and a man in white, and two women in red and white reading. A man in red and gold with a rudraksha mala appears in the Seattle panel, and a figure in orange and gold sits in the St. Louis panel.2016-01-14A large wall screen shows a video-conference grid of about fifteen tiles, each a remote satsang location labelled with city names such as Kuala Lumpur Palani Adheenam, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam, St. Louis Tirumala Adheenam, Toronto Thirumalai Adheenam, San Jose Madurai, Melbourne Tiruvarur, Oman Sivagangai and Redmond USA. Tiles show people seated on rugs, on a peetha and in ashram rooms, some in saffron and maroon robes, one in a white shirt wearing a headset, and a central figure in a red-and-white outfit seated before a green backdrop. Shrines with deity murtis appear in several tiles. Attendees are seen only through the screen.2015-02-24