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Home puja arrangement on a floral-patterned cloth spread on a marble floor beside a brown sofa. Silver and brass plates hold offerings: sweets and fried snacks in a wooden bowl, a brown dessert in a steel bowl, bananas, a flower-petal platter, bowls of turmeric and kumkum-coloured powders, and a copper vessel. Two lit oil lamps sit among them. A pink and gold silk cloth is draped over a white holder beside a book whose cover shows a portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda". No people are visible.

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