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Night ritual scene under a dark corrugated roof with red pillars and a colourful fringed canopy at top left. In the centre, a man with swept-back dark hair and a red shawl over saffron-orange robes stands barefoot with palms pressed together in namaskar, eyes lowered. Beside him, a man in white ritual cloth with gold borders holds a small vessel. At right, a priest in yellow and maroon garments holds a brass aarti lamp with a flame toward the seated figure. Two camera operators in white stand at left filming, and smoke rises in the background. Appearance-based cues include the swept-back hair, red shawl and saffron robes, so the central figure is a probable Swamiji in an in-person ritual setting; the aarti is performed by a priest. Ritual: aarti.

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