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A photograph of two men in close contact, one seated on the left smiling broadly with a dark forehead mark and a gold-and-saffron shawl over a red-orange garment, wearing a beaded gold-toned necklace. His hands are raised, and a bald man in a white shirt with a red-and-white printed shawl reaches toward his head with his palm extended in a blessing-like gesture. A wristwatch and a plastic water bottle sit nearby. Behind them, seated devotees, one with a white forehead mark and a woman with a red bindi and vibhuti-style marking, appear in a dim hall. A watermarked credit line sits in the lower right corner. The image reads as a satsang or darshan moment, though the seated figure's identity is not established by appearance alone.

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