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Close-up photograph of a bearded man with a bright smile, seated before an ornate gold-embossed throne. He wears a rust-brown turban topped with a large gold crown-like ornament set with a rudraksha-bead ring and a central motif, a white tilak across his forehead, and a red-brown rudraksha mala across his bare chest. Ceremonial gold necklaces and a gold pendant with a deity image hang from his neck, and he raises one hand in a blessing gesture. Swamiji (probable): long dark hair beneath the turban, rudraksha malas, gold ornaments and ceremonial adornments, seated on a throne.