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Outdoor satsang on a paved courtyard with a large crowd of devotees in white clothes seated on the ground. In the right foreground a standing man in white dhoti and shawl with gold-bordered edges, a rudraksha mala around his neck, stands with palms pressed together in namaste, his bare chest showing sacred ash marks. Seated near him, men in white and saffron-bordered dhotis with rudraksha malas sit with hands folded in prayer, one wearing an orange cloth on his head. A stainless steel vessel and small steel cups sit on a metal table at the left edge. Red-roofed buildings and a bus appear in the background.

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