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Outdoors under palm trees, a bearded man with long dark hair stands smiling beside a carved wooden ritual pillar or kalasha-topped post wrapped in white and red-and-yellow flower garlands and green leaves. He wears a maroon-brown robe and a rudraksha mala, and a garland of white and red flowers hangs across his shoulders. A hand from the side holds a brass plate and a brass lamp is visible at right. The setting appears to be an open-air ashram courtyard. Swamiji (probable) is shown in his maroon robe and rudraksha mala with long hair, performing a ritual at the decorated pillar.

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