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A photograph of a video wall showing a grid of live feeds from multiple KAILASA temples and centres, each panel labelled with a place name. Top left, San Jose Madurai shows a man with a white shawl and tilak seated beside a ritual setup with a kalasha-like arrangement. Top right, Surrey BC shows an elderly woman in white and others seated indoors. Middle row, Los Angeles Arunachala shows women in saris seated on mats before deity shrines, and Ohio Prayag shows a priest in orange and white seated on a red mat with a puja tray. Lower left, Hyderabad shows people seated with a sign reading Nithyananda, and Guadeloupe Rameswaram shows people seated on chairs on a pink floor. Bottom left, Kuala Lumpur Palani shows two people in orange robes seated before a deity shrine. Bottom right shows a large framed portrait of a smiling figure in an orange turban and orange robe, set on an ornate gold throne-like seat with a lamp, which is a depiction.

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A photograph of a large video wall showing a multi-city video-conference grid of satsang participants. Tiles are labelled SURREY BC, Ohio Prayag, Seattle Chidambaram, Guadeloupe Rameswaram, Houston Kalahasthi, Los Angeles, and San Jose Madurai. In the top-left tile, a shaved-headed man in white sits beside a seated elderly woman. Other tiles show seated devotees in front of shrines, a man in white and red sitting on a mat, and a lit oil lamp. In the bottom-right two tiles, framed portraits of a smiling man with an orange turban and orange robe rest on gold-trimmed stands, shown as printed or screen images rather than physical presence.2013-09-24A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple KAILASA centres, each labelled with a place name such as Ohio Prayag, San Jose Madurai, Malaysia Palani, Seattle Chidambaram, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Sharjah, Toronto Kailasam, Nithyananda Nagaram Hyderabad, Los Angeles Arunachala and Oklahoma Somnatham. Participants sit on mats and cushions in ashram-style rooms with deity murtis, garlands, kalasha-like offerings and flower arrangements. Screen-displayed participants are shown on the screen, not as physical people in the room.2013-04-12 +1 copiesA photograph of a monitor displaying a grid of nine video-conference feeds from different centres, each with a white label. Top left, Guadeloupe Rameswaram: several people in white clothes sit on a pink mat beside offering plates of fruit. Top centre, Ohio Prayag: a woman in a white sari sits on a red mat with a kalasha-style setup. Top right, San Jose Madurai: a man in white sits on a mat near a small deity shrine. Middle left, Seattle Chidambaram: a woman in a yellow sari sits with a plate. Centre, Toronto Kailasam: a shirtless man with a long braid and orange cloth stands beside seated devotees and a puja tray. Middle right, Sri Nithyanandeswara Hindu Temple Charlotte: a man in white sits before a puja tray. Bottom left, Kuala Lumpur Palani: a deity image with seated devotees. Bottom right, a tray of lit oil lamps with flowers and offering bowls.2013-11-12A photograph of a large screen displaying a nine-panel grid of two-way video-conference feeds from satsang and Nayana Deeksha sessions. Labelled panels include Bangalore, Toronto Kailasam, Ohio Prayag, Hyderabad Guptakashi, Kuala Lumpur Palani, Los Angeles Arunachala, Guadeloupe Rameshwaram and Nithyananda Nagara Bangalore. Some feeds show people seated in meditation on mats and carpets in red, white and saffron clothing, with a woman in a red top meditating in Hyderabad. The Nithyananda Nagara Bangalore panel shows a large hall of people in saffron and orange robes, and the Toronto panel shows a seated figure in orange robes before flower garlands. Along the lower right, a live room of seated people in white and pale clothing faces the screen.2014-01-06 +1 copiesSeptember 01 20112011-09-01April 14 20122012-04-14A screen-grid video conference of multiple satsang locations, with each tile showing a different group. Top-left, a man in white and a woman in white sit before a gold-draped altar with fruit and a brass tray. Top-centre, a group sits on green carpet beside a red-draped shrine with deity murtis. Centre-left, a label reads Los Angeles and people in white and orange sit on red and striped mats near a puja setup. Centre, a label reads San Jose Madurai and a woman in white sits with palms joined on a mat. Right tiles show Kuala Lumpur-Palani and Seattle Chidambaram, with people seated near altars and framed images. Many participants wear white, orange or yellow clothing.2013-07-30April 09 20142014-04-09October 11 20132013-10-11August 18 20112011-08-18November 26 20132013-11-26A photograph of a video-conference screen showing a grid of live feeds of satsang participants in separate locations. Top-left panel labelled "GUADELOUPE RAMESWARAM" shows a seated figure in white with a red-cushioned seat, plus others on a pink mat with a brass tray and fruit. Top-right panel labelled "SAN JOSE" shows a man in white with an orange shawl seated before a red-cloth altar with a brass bowl. Middle row includes a figure in dark robes labelled "ONTO KAILASAM", a panel labelled "NITHYANANDA NAGARAMU HYDERABAD" with a man in white sitting cross-legged with a brass plate, and a panel labelled "HOUSTON KALAHASTHI" showing a person in a blue jacket seated on a mat with offerings. Bottom panels labelled "LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA" show devotees before a lit oil lamp, and a lower-right panel shows a temple altar with a deity image. Multiple small figures are visible across the screen.2013-11-23