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Two men face each other closely in a plain white-walled room, one reaching his palm toward the forehead of the other. The man on the left wears an orange-saffron cloth draped over his body, a gold-toned beaded necklace and a white vertical tilak mark on his forehead, his hair tied up in a knot. The man on the right has long curly dark hair, a white t-shirt, a red-orange shawl and a thick rudraksha mala, with a green bead bracelet on his wrist, and his hands are raised in front of him. A blurred figure stands at the far right edge and a small altar-like object sits at the left. The gesture resembles a blessing or transmission moment.

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