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A crowded indoor hall with pale yellow walls and high louvred windows, filled with men and some women in white dhotis and white shirts with name badges and lanyards. At centre, a figure in a rust-orange wrap and a bright orange turban, wearing long rudraksha mala strands and a gold-trimmed saffron cloth, walks through the crowd. Devotees surround and reach toward this figure, who appears to be a sannyasi receiving darshan during an event at the Embalam ashram. Some attendees wear vibhuti and kumkum marks on their foreheads. The scene suggests a satsang or procession. Several people wear red and maroon garments and one wears a yellow shirt.

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