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Outdoor group meditation or satsang on a rooftop terrace with trees and a lamp post behind. Many devotees sit in prayer pose with palms joined at the chest, mostly wearing orange shawls. A grey-haired woman in front wears an orange shawl and a red bindi and has her eyes closed. Beside her, women in orange and pink saris and a girl in a green top with a long braid also sit with hands folded. A man in a white kurta with an orange shawl sits at right, and others in white and pink clothing sit in rows behind. Some people wear rudraksha or beaded malas. Plain tiled floor and a potted plant at the edge.

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