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A photograph of a large outdoor-covered hall during a ritual gathering. A person with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe with gold border and a rudraksha-style necklace, sits on an orange-draped seat facing the crowd, holding a tall gold trident-topped staff. Seated devotees in white ritual clothes, many wearing marigold garlands, fill the floor; one man in an orange robe sits at the right foreground. Above, paper lanterns in yellow, green and blue hang among leaf garlands. A golden ornamented throne or peetha and a red-draped stand are at the right, and a framed image wall lines the left side. Crowd of many seated and standing people in the background. Probable Swamiji seated in orange robe with long hair and rudraksha necklace, presiding over the gathering.

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