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A woman in a white kurta with a hair bun, wearing a white face mask and a rudraksha-style mala, stands with palms pressed together in namaste before a large life-size printed portrait on a counter. The portrait shows a smiling figure in a red turban and orange-red robes, seated in a meditative pose with raised palms and a red bindi, wearing a dense garland of beads and white flowers; he is a depiction, not a physical person. Scattered white jasmine-like flowers lie on the stone counter beside a black bag, and tiled walls and recessed ceiling lights surround the space.

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