Outdoor photo on a red-earth site beside a dug pit, fence posts, scrub trees and a parked silver vehicle. A man in orange robe with long swept-back dark hair stands at right, hands resting on the shoulders of a bespectacled man in white shirt and dhoti who holds his palms together in namaste. Two other men in white stand in the background, one with hands raised near his face. - Nithyanandapedia

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Outdoor photo on a red-earth site beside a dug pit, fence posts, scrub trees and a parked silver vehicle. A man in orange robe with long swept-back dark hair stands at right, hands resting on the shoulders of a bespectacled man in white shirt and dhoti who holds his palms together in namaste. Two other men in white stand in the background, one with hands raised near his face.

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