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Outdoor flag-hoisting ceremony at a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam centre. A bare-chested man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange dhoti and a long orange-and-marigold garland, smiles while pulling a white flagpole rope beside a white-clad man who grips the pole. Behind them a second saffron-robed figure stands near a tall striped flagpole. Marigold petals are scattered on a stone platform, and a decorated canopy with red and gold floral pattern overhangs the scene. Men in white shirts and dhotis, some with orange sashes, and women and children in saris watch from a crowd near a metal-roofed shed, with hills and roadside buildings behind. The man with the garland matches the Swamiji (probable) appearance cues of long hair and orange ceremonial clothing.

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