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Indoor hall with orange-curtained ceiling, paper lanterns, wooden bookshelves and red-and-blue striped mats. A bearded man with long swept-back hair in a rust-red robe stands at right, touching the chest of a devotee in white with a rudraksha-style gesture. Around them, a line of disciples in saffron-orange cloth and white dhotis stand barefoot; a man in a grey shirt and jeans watches from the foreground holding a phone. The scene reads as a satsang initiation session.

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