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Night ritual photograph at a temple shrine before a large blue-skinned goddess murti with a white tongue and raised sword, draped in layered yellow, orange and magenta marigold garlands. A long-haired man in a rust-brown dhoti and shawl, wearing rudraksha beads, stands at center holding a brass vessel and applying a mark to the murti's base area; a small figure and the murti's garland-wrapped plinth surround him. Three other men in saffron and orange cloths and beaded necklaces stand behind, one with a turban. Incense smoke rises at left, and a world map banner reading 'Global Nithyananda Samaj' with numbers 347 cities and 47 countries hangs overhead. Five people are visible.

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