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A photo of a welcoming ceremony at an ashram entrance. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands in the centre and raises a white coconut or kalasha-like vessel toward a smiling man in saffron-orange clothing with an orange turban, a long garland of white flowers with red blossoms, and a gold pendant chain. Around them, devotees in white clothes press their palms together in greeting, including a woman in a white sari with gold border on the left. Other men in white shirts and dhotis stand nearby, and a red and white wire garland hangs from the ceiling beside a window grille. The setting is a white-walled corridor.

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