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A shaved-headed young man in saffron-orange robes and a red-orange dhoti stands in a hall holding a tiered brass aarti lamp with many lit flames, with a small bell on the floor beside him. He wears wooden rudraksha mala strands across his chest, bead bracelets, a gold bangle, and a sacred mark on his forehead. Behind him, a row of seated devotees in orange robes, some with rudraksha malas, sit on the floor while an older man in a white dhoti and shawl with a white head covering, gesturing, sits in the lower left. Red chairs are stacked along the back wall, with a golden carved pillar on the right and framed photos on the wall above. This appears to be an aarti ritual during a satsang setting; the image shows a white-clothed elder in the foreground next to a seated group.

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