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A photograph of a devotee ritual at an ashram event. A man with long dreadlocks, bare-chested and sprinkled with pink and yellow flower petals, leans forward and places his hand on the head of a young man in white kurta and a rudraksha mala. The young man kneels beside a silver lion-shaped seat. Behind them a woman in a maroon sari holds a framed silver-toned image of a seated deity with a halo, and a woman with red-brown hair stands nearby. Two ornate silver framed deity images rest on silver stands in the foreground. A silver pillar and a woman in blue sari are at the right edge. Several people in white and maroon clothing stand around, with no clearly identifiable a person in the scene.

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