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A photograph of a Guru Poornima event in a meditation hall. A standing figure in a long saffron-orange robe with long dark hair pours or offers from a small vessel onto a large floral-decorated seat or throne, with a red cushion, decorated with marigold garlands and orange and white flower strings, set before a blue-and-red wall with hanging yellow and patterned cloth. Above, a large framed portrait shows a man in a white turban. Several seated devotees in white clothes sit in the foreground, some with hands folded in prayer, and brass bowls with offerings and green leaves sit on the floor. Two figures in saffron cloth appear at the right edge. a person: the standing figure in saffron has long hair and saffron robes; the portrait shows a man in a turban.

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