A photograph of men in white dhotis and white shirts dancing and clapping in a large hall with a brown tiled floor. At center, a man in white raises a blue tambourine high overhead while others clap their hands in rhythm. A man on the left holds a small hand drum. Red curtains hang on the walls behind the crowd, and many standing devotees watch from the background. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of men in white dhotis and white shirts dancing and clapping in a large hall with a brown tiled floor. At center, a man in white raises a blue tambourine high overhead while others clap their hands in rhythm. A man on the left holds a small hand drum. Red curtains hang on the walls behind the crowd, and many standing devotees watch from the background.

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March 11 2013

A crowded indoor hall with a tiled floor and white-washed walls, where many devotees stand with palms pressed together in namaskar, dressed mostly in white. Men wear white shirts and dhotis, women wear white and cream saris and salwar-style clothing, and one woman in the foreground wears a pale floral sari with purple print. Several participants have their eyes closed or look downward in devotion. Red curtains hang at the windows at left and back. The scene suggests a group energy darshan session with a crowd of attendees gathered in prayer, though the teacher is not visible in this frame.

A photograph of a group dancing indoors on a brick-tiled floor in a plain white-walled hall with fluorescent tube lights and red curtains at the windows. In the centre, a grey-haired man in a white shirt and white dhoti, barefoot, leans forward while holding a small blue object in his hands. To the right, a woman in a white kurta and white trousers with red embroidered trim raises two yellow-and-red sticks overhead. Around them, women in white saris and a woman in an orange blouse watch, and a man at the right edge holds a bell-like instrument on a cord. Scattered petals or confetti lie on the floor.

January 20 2013

A photograph of a crowded indoor hall with white floor tiles and red curtains, where many men in white dhotis and white shirts move around. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a dark wooden barrel-shaped drum (a mridangam-like instrument) held at his waist, gesturing with his free hand. Beside him, a man with a moustache and a red cord around his neck, wearing white kurta and dhoti, holds a small hand instrument and watches him. Other attendees stand and sit in the background, some wearing name badges, and a purple emblem is visible in the lower left corner of the frame.

March 16 2003

Photograph inside a large hall during a person Spurana Convention session in Salem. Many men wearing white dhotis and white shirts stand in dense rows on a dark floor, several with arms raised and hands lifted in devotional gesture, some wearing orange-brown rudraksha-style beaded necklaces. Partially visible heads and shoulders of people in the foreground, white latticed screens and ceiling lights in the background. No clearly visible a person figure is identifiable in the frame.

September 13 2013

June 22 2008

A photograph of a large crowd of men in white shirts and white dhotis, many with rudraksha malas around their necks, some with arms raised and hands clapping or swaying in an energetic group meditation or celebration indoors. In the right background, a man in an orange-saffron robe with a rudraksha mala stands among the crowd, and red curtains hang behind the group. A man in the centre-left has his eyes closed and face tilted upward. Most participants wear white, with a few in pastel or patterned shirts.

A tented hall with decorative hanging lanterns in red, yellow and blue overhead. Several men in plain white shirts and white dhotis move across a purple mat, many holding short coloured sticks in their hands while stepping and turning. A man in dark-rimmed glasses and a white shirt with an ID badge at left looks on, holding a red stick. A man in the foreground has his back turned, bent slightly forward. Wheelchairs and other participants stand near the edges, and colourful striped rugs lie on the floor at the right.