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Photo of young men seated cross-legged in meditation on a yellow cloth printed with black and orange mandala-like geometric patterns, inside a tented hall with white plastic chairs and yellow patterned pillars. The men wear white kurta-style shirts and white dhotis, with rudraksha malas around their necks; the front two have sandalwood or kumkum marks on their foreheads and watches on their wrists. Their eyes are closed and their hands rest on their knees in mudra. Several more meditators are visible behind them, with a few others seated further back, around ten to fifteen people in total.

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