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A photograph of a darshan moment at an indoor convention hall, with a crowd of many men in white clothes standing and seated on a red floor behind. In the foreground, a man in a teal turban, white long-sleeved kurta and teal-and-gold shawl places his right hand on the head of a seated man with long dark hair and a short beard, who wears a white shirt. A third man in a white shirt holds the seated man's hand near a gold bracelet. Another man in the lower left wears a rudraksha mala and white clothing. The man in the turban has long dark hair swept back and a gold bracelet. a person cues are long swept-back hair, a teal turban and teal-and-gold shawl, and he is blessing a devotee by hand on the head.

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