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A man with long dark hair, a full beard and a white and red tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged on an ornate gold-leaf throne with red cushions. He wears a rust-orange robe, a rudraksha mala draped across his chest and a red thread on his wrist, and holds a wooden lectern or tablet on his lap while smiling at the audience. Carved gold and bronze reliefs of figures and foliage frame the throne, with green plants at the right edge. Swamiji (probable): long hair, saffron robe, rudraksha malas and a throne suggest the guru seated in a teaching setting.