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Outdoors on a rocky hillside with a tree and boulders behind, a bare-chested young man with long dreadlocks and an orange dhoti holds a silver aarti lamp with a flame aloft and a bell in his other hand, wearing a rudraksha mala and bead bracelets. Beside him, a man with long dreadlocks and a wrapped orange cloth holds his palms together in prayer, while another devotee with a white forehead mark carries a brass plate of offerings, and a figure in the foreground looks up. The scene reads as an aarti or puja ritual being performed in a natural setting.

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