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A large open hall with a corrugated roof and yellow-and-white draped fabric along the walls, where many people are gathered, some holding white plates. In the foreground a smiling man with a horizontal sacred ash mark on his forehead wears a dark maroon-red wrap with broad gold borders and a thick reddish-brown bead necklace, with a dark swept-back hairstyle. Beside him a bald man in a similar maroon and gold wrap with a rudraksha-style mala walks through the crowd. Around them women wear saris in teal, pink and maroon, and men in white kurtas and maroon wraps move among seated devotees. Swamiji appearance is probable: the foreground man has long swept-back hair, ceremonial bead necklace and saffron-maroon ornate clothing, and the scene is a satsang-style gathering. Visible people appear to number in the dozens.

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