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A shirtless, grey-bearded man in a white dhoti with pale blue border stands barefoot on white tiles in a yellow-walled room, holding an incense stick in one hand and a brass bell in the other while facing a home shrine. The shrine holds brass deity murtis, a brass lamp with a lit flame, a kalasha-style vessel, red and orange flower garlands, and blue flower petals. A framed Lakshmi-type image with lotuses hangs on the wall, with framed portraits of a saffron-robed sannyasi nearby, and a large framed picture of a bearded figure with pearl garlands sits at the shrine's left. Brass pooja vessels and a plate sit on the altar, consistent with alankar and neivedyam puja.

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