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A photograph of a puja at an indoor setting with an orange mat. A man with long dark wavy hair, a red vertical tilak, dark rudraksha mala and orange robes sits on a carved wooden chair, holding a small golden lamp with a lit flame and a silver-coloured bell-shaped vessel. Beside him, a second man in orange robes and an orange shawl, wearing glasses and a gold necklace, sits with palms joined in prayer, a microphone in front of him. Before them are brass and silver puja vessels, a gold kettle-shaped pot, a silver bowl of almonds, a tray with a dark liquid and a small silver cup, and a silver container. At right, a framed picture is garlanded with red roses and yellow flowers on an orange cloth. Swamiji (probable): the man with long hair, red tilak, rudraksha mala and orange robes is performing the puja.

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