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A dense night crowd gathers around an illuminated ratha or palanquin procession at a temple event. Glowing oil lamps and string lights frame a raised deity murti draped in red and orange garlands, seated on a decorated platform. In the foreground a young man in a white t-shirt faces away, with women in saris and men in white kurtas pressing around. Several men in white clothing at left hold hands in añjali gesture. Dust and warm light fill the scene. No individual can be clearly identified as the teacher, so the depicted figure is a deity murti.

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