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Outdoor photo of a fire-walking event at an ashram in daylight. A long pit of glowing grey embers runs across dry earth, and an older man in white dhoti with an orange-edged cloth is walking barefoot across it. Around him a crowd of devotees in white kurtas and dhotis line both sides, many with hands raised or outstretched toward him. A man in the foreground right wears a rudraksha mala and a white shirt, and another devotee at right holds a tag on his chest. Behind them stand women in light saris, a red-roofed building, palm trees and a red flag on a pole. No one in the crowd has a visible face-identified role beyond devotee; the walker is a devotee performing the fire walk.

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