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Outdoor satsang under a green shade net at an ashram-style courtyard. Dozens of seated devotees in orange and saffron clothing and white dhotis face a central teacher in orange, who sits near a small tiled-roof shrine with colourful strings and a white-painted wall. A bald man in a white dhoti and shawl stands at right beside a woman in white holding a camera on a tripod, and a woman in a pink sari sits in front. Smoke rises at left, and small children sit among the crowd on mats. Ritual objects including a trident-like staff are placed near the shrine.

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