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A seated congregation of men in white dhotis and white shirts sits on a red carpet during a Shiva diksha teaching at Adi Kailasa, Bengaluru. Many wear red-brown rudraksha-style mala garlands over their shoulders. In the foreground, a bald man in a bare-torso white dhoti, with a red mala and gold armlets, sits with his hand raised to his face. Standing men at the back in white and one in a pink shirt watch the proceedings. The room has pink-washed walls and a wooden door with a small purple logo at the top left. The setting is an assembly hall with a mostly male audience listening attentively.