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A photograph inside a temple hall during a blessing. A man with long dark hair, wearing a rust-orange sleeveless garment and a long gold bead necklace, places his right hand on the forehead of a devotee in a pale striped shirt. The devotee has his hands joined in namaskar and a red mark on his forehead. Around them, men in white shirts and dhotis, some with white sandalwood marks on their foreheads and rudraksha malas, stand with hands folded. Red-and-white fruits sit on a tray in the lower right, and a painted portrait hangs on the left wall. A projection screen and a draped orange cloth hang overhead. The man in orange, who has the distinctive long hair and gold necklace cues, is a probable Swamiji (probable) giving a blessing; a sincere in-person identification is uncertain given appearance alone.

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