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A multi-panel video-conference collage of a live satsang, with nine screens showing groups joined from different centres. Top-left: people seated on a white carpet before a labelled sign reading NEW YORK VARANASI. Top-right: devotees seated before a gilded shrine with deity murtis. Middle row: Atlanta UJJAIN and Victoria Australia groups, with a man in white ritual clothes and white head covering seated before statues and a Victoria Australia sign, and Houston KALAHASTHI with seated devotees in white. Bottom row: a group on a sofa, and a Malaysia Bunai panel with a man in white clothes beside a decorated altar. Bottom-right: a person in orange-saffron clothing with long hair seated writing, as shown on a screen. Screen-visible people are not counted as physical people.

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A screen shows a nine-panel video conference grid of satsang groups from different centres. Panel labels read HOUSTON KALAHASTHI, NEW YORK VARANASI, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA, PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, SOMNATH OKLAHOMA, VANCOUVER PUR, and ATLANTA UJJAIN. Participants sit on floors and cushions, some in white and saffron, around flowers, fruit and deity images. In the bottom-right panel a smiling woman in saffron robes and a flower garland sits before a flower-decorated backdrop.2011-12-18October 23 20112011-10-23A screen displays a nine-panel video call grid of devotees meeting in different homes. Panels are labelled ATLANTA UJJAIN, PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK, HOUSTON KALAHASTHI, DALLAS SRIRANGAM, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA and PURI, with people seated on mats in white and orange clothing, many in prayer posture around flower offerings, plates and framed deity pictures. In the bottom right panel a bald man in orange robes and rudraksha mala sits in meditation on an orange mat, shown as a depicted image beside a statue-like figure.2011-11-20A large display wall shows a grid of video-link panels from different centres, each showing a group during a session. Top right panel: a man with a white cloth and rudraksha mala sits before a shrine labelled Victoria Australia with murtis and a framed picture. Middle right panel: a woman in an orange robe sits on a red mat beside a man in white among a seated group, labelled Houston Kalahasthi. Other panels show seated devotees in Rio de Janeiro, Omkareshwar in New Jersey, Malaysia Palani, Tucson and Atlanta Ujjain. Bottom right panel: a deity murti heavily decorated with white and red flower garlands. Many people are seated in meditation or ritual posture across the panels.2011-10-02November 08 20112011-11-08A photograph of a large wall-mounted video display showing a nine-panel video call grid of devotees seated in home shrine rooms in different cities. Labels include ATLANTA UJJAIN, PHILADELPHIA, HOUSTON KALAHASTHI, DALLAS DHARAKA, PORT WASHINGTON NEW YORK, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA and VANCOUVER PURI. Participants sit on mats and cushions before altars with flowers, fruit plates, deity pictures and oil lamps. In the bottom-right panel a bald man in an orange garment with beaded necklace appears on screen, and the grid includes a shaved-head man in white with rudraksha beads in the Victoria panel. Eight to ten physical people are visible across the rooms.2011-11-20November 29 20112011-11-29A projected screen shows a six-panel video-conference collage of satsang sites. Top-left, a seated man in white sits beside a banner reading "MALAYSIA PALANI" before a decorated deity altar with a purple cloth. Top-centre, a man with a white turban and beaded necklaces sits before a banner reading "VICTORIA AUSTRALIA" and small deity figures. Top-right, seated devotees in white sit before a banner reading "TRINIDAD" and deity murtis under red flags. Bottom-left, devotees sit on the floor with puja plates. Bottom-centre, a shrine with deity murtis and seated devotees. Bottom-right, a man in a white turban, saffron-toned robe and rudraksha mala sits on a gold-arched throne. The panels are pictured activities, not physical people in this room.2011-10-21May 31 20122012-05-31November 12 20112011-11-12November 11 20112011-11-11A large wall screen shows a video-conference grid of about fifteen tiles, each a remote satsang location labelled with city names such as Kuala Lumpur Palani Adheenam, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam, St. Louis Tirumala Adheenam, Toronto Thirumalai Adheenam, San Jose Madurai, Melbourne Tiruvarur, Oman Sivagangai and Redmond USA. Tiles show people seated on rugs, on a peetha and in ashram rooms, some in saffron and maroon robes, one in a white shirt wearing a headset, and a central figure in a red-and-white outfit seated before a green backdrop. Shrines with deity murtis appear in several tiles. Attendees are seen only through the screen.2015-02-24