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A photograph of a large wall-mounted video display showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple centres. Tiles include Auckland New Zealand, Atlanta Ujjaini, Grasse France, Moliere France, Lochana North San Antonio, Toronto Thirukailaya Adheenam, Dallas Dwaraka, NY Varanasi Manhattan, Yonkers NewYork, Dakota Dunes, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam and Seattle Chidamba. Participants sit in meditation, yoga and satsang postures, some on cushions and mats, others on chairs, with a ritual scene on one tile and a screen-within-screen view of a seated figure in orange clothing with a crown and beads at the lower right. The display frame is dark and the room around it is dim.

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February 16 20152015-02-16 +1 copiesA screen-grid video conference of a satsang with fifteen tiles showing participants in different locations, each tile labelled with a handwritten or printed place sign such as Chicago, New Jersey, Austin, Atlanta Ujjain, Singapore, St. Louis Tirumala, Guadeloupe, Charlotte Srisailam, Louisville Kentucky, Santijulien France and Dakota Dunes. Participants sit cross-legged or on sofas, some in white, one in red with a shawl, another in saffron with a beaded necklace and an ornate shawl. Many tiles show altars, pictures of deities and oil lamps. The bottom-right tile shows a man in saffron robes with a mala and an ornate golden-yellow backdrop, seated in meditation. The image is a screenshot of a screen, so the people are depicted, not physically present.2013-01-25August 16 20132013-08-16April 06 20132013-04-06February 14 20152015-02-14November 11 20112011-11-11A photograph of a large display screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile is labelled with a city name in white text, including Phoenix Kanchipuram, Singapore Singapore, Los Angeles Arunachalam, New York Varanasi, Oklahoma Somnatham, Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjaini and San Jose Madurai. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and carpets in meditation or satsang postures, several wearing white kurtas and some in dark clothing, with shrine backdrops of deity murti and red drapes visible in several tiles. On the right edge of the screen a partial tile shows a seated figure in red and orange robes.2013-04-06Two wall-mounted monitors in a dark room display a video conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile shows a group of people seated indoors in homes or centres, labelled with place names such as Los Angeles Aadheenam, St. Louis-Manchester, Morris Plains-NJ, Wellington-New Zealand, Ponca City-Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia and Toronto-Canada. Some tiles show people in white and orange clothing seated before a floor cloth or meditation setting. Depicted people are on screens, not physically present, and no in-person candidate is visible.2015-08-16February 15 20152015-02-15February 16 20152015-02-16January 28 20132013-01-28January 12 20132013-01-12