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A large seated audience under a corrugated-roof pavilion with white pillars and green foliage. Many attendees wear white cloth blindfolds over their eyes. In the centre-left, a young man in a saffron-orange robe and orange turban, with a beaded rudraksha-style mala around his neck, walks down the aisle between the rows of chairs. Foreground devotees include a woman in a pink sari, a man in a blue shirt, a man in a cream checked shirt, and a woman in a white top with an ID badge. Two blue banners with a stylised face emblem hang at the back of the hall.

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