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A photograph of two men in close, intimate conversation before a deep red curtain with a golden pole at centre. On the right, a man with long, swept-back dark hair, a short beard and a dark rudraksha mala around his neck wears a rust-orange wrap over bare shoulder; his right arm rests on the left man's shoulder. On the left, a man with short curly black hair wears a white garment with an orange-patterned shawl and looks toward him. Swamiji (probable) is the man on the right, identified by his long swept-back hair, rudraksha mala and orange wrap while attending to the devotee on the left.

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July 14 20162016-07-14A photograph of a bearded man with long dark hair in a rust-orange sannyasi wrap and a thick rudraksha-style mala blessing a clean-shaven man in a white shirt with an orange lanyard. The blessing man's hand rests on the other's forehead while the white-shirted man raises his own hand. Gold deity statues, a gold staff and a red curtain stand behind them. Swamiji (probable) is the man in orange and brown robes with the long hair and mala, giving a blessing, so swamiji is in_person. Only two physical people are visible.2016-09-09 +1 copiesJuly 13 20162016-07-13July 14 20162016-07-14A photograph of a seated man with long dark hair, a small red tilak on his forehead, a gold chain and a rust-red saffron wrap, sitting on an ornate gold throne with a red cushion. He smiles while a shirtless young man in a white dhoti-style cloth with yellow borders stands in front of him, one hand raised to the seated man's forehead and the other touching his cheek, in what appears to be a blessing. Red curtains hang behind them and a gold pole stands at the left edge. The seated man has distinctive long hair, saffron-toned robes and a gold necklace, consistent with the page's reference to Swamiji (probable) receiving devotees at a darshan. The shirtless devotee is a person in white ritual cloth.2017-07-14 +1 copiesJuly 01 20162016-07-01July 14 20162016-07-14A photo of a blessing moment. A long-haired man with a beard, bare-chested apart from an orange-red saffron wrap and a rudraksha mala around his neck, places his right hand on the forehead of an older, grey-haired man in a white shirt with a red sash. The older man bows with eyes closed and palms pressed together in anjali. Behind them a red curtain and a gold pillar; a younger man in white with a rudraksha mala stands at left.2016-07-14A photograph of two men in a ritual setting before a deep red drape and a gold-coloured pillar. A man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing a rust-orange wrap over his shoulders and a long brown rudraksha mala, rests his right hand on the forehead of a seated man with curly black hair. The seated man wears a white garment with an orange-patterned shawl and a red wrist thread, and raises his left palm. The standing man holds a folded paper in his left hand, indicating a blessing or initiation. a person: the standing man has long swept-back hair, rudraksha mala and orange robe cues, but the appearance is not conclusive enough for certainty.2016-07-14July 07 20162016-07-07A photograph of a seated man in rust-orange saffron robes with long swept-back hair and a red tilak on his forehead, smiling as he raises one hand to the head of a bare-chested young man in a white dhoti with a yellow-and-white sash. The seated figure sits on an ornate gold throne with a red cushion, in front of deep red drapes. The kneeling devotee places his hand on the seated man's chest. a person (appearance-based label) is seated on the throne, giving a blessing to the devotee, consistent with a darshan moment.2017-07-14July 07 20162016-07-07