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A smiling man with long dark hair, a full beard and a white tilak with a red vertical mark on his forehead sits on an ornate silver throne, wearing a rust-brown robe and multiple strands of rudraksha beads. He raises his right hand toward a shirtless young man in an orange dhoti and orange shawl with gold border standing with his back to the camera, who wears wooden bead bracelets on his upper arm. Behind them are garlands of white, yellow, red and purple flowers against a saffron-yellow wall, and a brass bell hangs from the top. The scene appears to be a ceremonial greeting or blessing in a ritual setting. Swamiji (probable): the seated man has long hair, a rudraksha mala and a ceremonial throne setting.