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A large hall packed with seated participants in white clothes and red-orange shawls, many wearing orange or red headwear and sandalwood-and-vermilion forehead marks. Many wear lanyards with badges. A man in the foreground with folded hands and a smile wears a pale blue kurta over white dhoti and a red shawl, with a rudraksha-style mala visible at his chest. Others around him clap and raise their hands during the session. Red patterned carpet runs down the centre aisle, and purple lit panels line the back wall. Many participants are visible; the crowd is far larger than twenty.

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A large photograph of a packed hall with a crowd of participants seated on white mats along red carpet aisles with diagonal white lines. Most wear white clothes with orange-red shawls and red lanyard badges; many have orange-yellow tilak marks on their foreheads. Several seated people in front clap or raise hands in applause. Behind them, purple-lit decorative panels line the wall, and a distant figure in orange stands near the front. Crowd is large, well over one hundred visible people.2015-05-27May 27 20152015-05-27A large seated gathering of participants fills an indoor hall with pale carpeting, facing a stage at the far end beneath purple patterned wall panels. Most attendees wear white kurtas or white clothes with orange-red shawls draped over their shoulders. Several men in orange and saffron turbans and orange robes sit among them, and a few wear rudraksha malas. Large printed cutout portraits of a smiling man in an orange turban and ornate orange garments are placed in the foreground at left and right, with a visible headset microphone on one figure. The scene looks like a satsang or initiation session with a dense audience of over a hundred people.2015-05-27May 10 20152015-05-10A large crowd of devotees sits on the floor of a red-draped hall, clapping with palms together. Most wear white kurtas and dhotis, while others wear saffron, orange and blue clothing; several men have rudraksha malas around their necks, and a woman in the foreground has grey hair and glasses. A large screen at the top right shows a crowd, and a golden deity or ornate figure stands on a stage at the top left. The setting suggests a satsang or discourse gathering.2017-12-17 +2 copiesA large hall filled with a seated audience of several hundred devotees in white kurta-style clothing and red-and-white shawls, sitting cross-legged on white mats in rows facing the front. Some wear orange or saffron cloths folded beside them, and several people wear lanyards with badges. Chandeliers hang from a ceiling of wooden panels, and the back wall has purple-lit patterned panels. The scene suggests a satsang or discourse gathering, though the speaker's area is out of frame.2015-05-09A large hall filled with seated participants during a KAILASA Inner Awakening session in Varanasi. Most attendees wear white kurta-style clothing with orange-red shawls draped over their shoulders, and many wear orange or saffron turbans and rudraksha malas. Several cut-out or printed life-size portraits of smiling figures in orange turbans and garlands are placed among the audience in the foreground, distinguishable from the real people. Purple-lit wall panels line the back of the venue, and a figure stands near the far stage area.2015-05-27A large seated congregation in a hall with purple-lit decorative panels on the walls. Many men and women dressed in white clothing wear orange-red shawls draped over their shoulders, and several have their arms raised high, hands open or fists clenched, in an energetic group gesture. Some wear orange-red bead necklaces. A few people in the background stand among the seated crowd, and a framed picture hangs on the left wall. No clearly identifiable central figure is visible in the frame, and no one is confirmed as a person by appearance.2015-05-10May 12 20152015-05-12May 21 20152015-05-21May 09 20152015-05-09October 11 20152015-10-11