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Photograph of a satsang setting. On the right, a bare-chested man with long dreadlocked hair and a beard wears an orange saffron wrap and a thick rudraksha mala, and he smiles while holding out a blank white card toward another man. On the left, a clean-shaven man in a white kurta wears an orange shawl printed with script and a red lanyard, eyes closed and face turned toward the card. Behind them, a camera operator in white shirt and belt films, and a figure in orange robes is partly visible, with a warm stone wall and red drapery in the background. a person is the man on the right, identified by long matted hair, rudraksha mala and saffron wrap; he is shown in appearance-based terms only.

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