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Outdoor photo of a crowd gathered before a red brick building with a sign reading Nithyananda Sacred Arts University, with banana leaves and decorated pillars at the entrance. A long-haired figure in a rust-red robe and rudraksha malas stands on a raised speaker platform, holding a microphone and a small metal vessel aloft, speaking to the people below. Around them, devotees in saffron and orange clothing, white, and mixed colours wear malas and stand close together; a bald monk in orange robes stands among them. A photographer stands on top of the speaker stack and another takes pictures at its side. a person cues: long swept-back hair, rust-red robe and rudraksha mala on the speaker platform figure.